Calculating City Circulation Plans about sfnetworks

[mpadge]

@awjreynolds This is great and important idea, for which i've just set up this repository - empty right now, but should fill up soon.

Is there a way to automatically identify main roads (e.g. google traffic)

• yes

identify LTNs

• yes, although a definitively non-trivial exercise

then identify the optimal central placements of a road blocks/bus gates for each LTN?

yes, once the above has been done, that stage is relatively less non-trivial (but only relatively).

In summary, all do-able, and clearly pretty critically important. My Q for you (@awjreynolds), @Robinlovelace, @agila5, @luukvdmeer, and any others is how involved you would like and/or be able to be? I note @loreabad6 that you've tagged this as a hackathon issue, but my thoughts for now would be that this would be an appropriate single task for a singularly focussed hackathon, but otherwise would likely be too large and challenging to be able to develop any useful solutions within a matter of hours. I would nevertheless very much like to be proven wrong on that, so feel free to ignore those concerns.

Any and all interested parties please step across to the dedicated repo for continued discussions.

[Robinlovelace]

Looks good and sounds like a project that is larger than can be done in the hackathon, so the new repo could be an ideal place to develop ideas, code and results related to the issue. A narrower and more dev-focussed topic could be sfnetworks/dodgr integration, comparison, documentation ; )

[Robinlovelace]

There doesn't seem to be much of a methodology there, but very useful info pack.

[awjreynolds]

I'll just add that I would be an observer only. I simply do not have the time.

[Robinlovelace]

Existing method: https://twitter.com/awjre/status/1271698435155079171

[mpadge]

A bit of further context: that's the result of this methodology

[luukvdmeer]

Since the hackathon is now behind us, I will close the hackathon issues. For this topic now there is a dedicated repo: https://github.com/atfutures-labs/LTN

Personally of course I would be interested to see if and how sfnetworks as a package/data structure fits in there, and look forward to receiving specific feature requests ;)