NORTHSTAR INSTITUTEPUBLIC SYSTEMS RESEARCH

01 / RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Evidence for the systems people cannot opt out of.

Independent research on transport, housing, water and digital public infrastructure.

02 / MANDATE

We study the gap between policy on paper and service in practice.

03 / PROGRAMMES

P01

MOBILITY

Networks, access, reliability and cost

P02

HOUSING

Supply, tenure, land and delivery systems

P03

WATER

Operations, maintenance and resilience

P04

DIGITAL STATE

Identity, payments and service interfaces

04 / METHOD

01QUESTION
02DATA
03FIELD
04ANALYSIS
05PUBLICATION

05 / CURRENT STUDIES

R-42Bus reliability after route reform14 corridors / 8 months / passenger time-loss model
H-18Vacant land to delivered housing112 sites tracked across permitting stages
W-07Maintenance signals before failure3 utilities / 6 years of work-order records
31

peer reviewers

18

open datasets

7

public agencies partnered

100%

methods published

07 / RESEARCHERS

01Dr. A. NcubeUrban systems
02M. ChenData methods
03S. PatelPublic finance
04R. MoyoField operations

09 / RESEARCH QUESTIONS

01 / Who funds the institute?

A production institute would publish formal funding, ethics and data-governance policies.

02 / Can agencies commission research?

A production institute would publish formal funding, ethics and data-governance policies.

03 / Are datasets public?

A production institute would publish formal funding, ethics and data-governance policies.

04 / How are conflicts disclosed?

A production institute would publish formal funding, ethics and data-governance policies.

05 / Can journalists request briefings?

A production institute would publish formal funding, ethics and data-governance policies.

10 / COLLABORATE

Bring a public problem that can survive measurement.