News Archive: 2009

MAST Online Launch Confirmed

July 23rd, 2009

The project team have announced that arrangements for launching the Initial Version of MAST Online have now been finalised. Following consultation with the Department for Transport, MAST will be unveiled at launch events in London on Tuesday 22 September ... Read article

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MAST Launch scheduled for September

May 7th, 2009

The project Steering Group have confirmed that an initial version of MAST Online will be launched nationwide this September, to coincide with the 2008 release of Road Casualties Great Britain. It is anticipated that the Department for Transport will ... Read article

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Aeriandi chosen for MAST Web Development

April 2nd, 2009

MAST has announced that its cutting edge data analysis engine, to be hosted right here on Road Safety Analysis, will be created by leading Oxford-based web development company Aeriandi Ltd. Since their inception in 2002, Aeriandi have earned an enviable ... Read article

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Here Be Dragons – the problem of geography

March 31st, 2009

We’ve all heard the urban myth about medieval people believing uncharted areas of the world to be populated by strange and terrible monsters – that unknown seventeenth century cartographer who wrote “hic sunt dracones” on his globe ... Read article

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MAST seen as beacon of best practice

March 30th, 2009

Transforming all aspects of government to serve citizens better is a major government objective right now, and customer insight techniques lie at the heart of meeting this challenge. The Cabinet Office tries to share best practice and innovations which ... Read article

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MAST – how to deliver the baby?

March 30th, 2009

When I first joined the MAST Project last September, MAST did not exist – but it did have an ancestor. My colleagues Richard and Dan, from the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership, had developed something they called Headline Data. It was successfully ... Read article

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Blessings from ‘The Godfather’

February 26th, 2009

MAST approved by creator of MOSAIC MAST has been described as “admirable and commendable” by Richard Webber, creator of the MOSAIC geo-demographic classification system and Visiting Professor at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. His comments ... Read article

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