Prof. Pnina Plaut

Chair of the Graduate Program in City and Regional Planning at the Faculty of
Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.  Fields of interests:
transportation and land use planning and policy, impacts of infrastructure (transportation and
telecommunications) on economic development. Special research interest in ICT Social Networks, travel
behaviour and urban structure.

Big Data

One major influence of ICT is the ability to manage and interact with the transport system in real time. Initially there was strong ‘top down’ development of sophisticated traveller information systems, using…