network-routing

About

This is the documentation for network_routing, a Python package developed by DVRPC to produce the datasets shown in the Sidewalk Gap Analysis Explorer.

This work was conducted using DVRPC’s pedestrian facilities inventory, a GIS dataset that inventories sidewalks, curb ramps, and crosswalks across the nine-county Greater Philadelphia region. Explore the data and help plan for a pedestrian-friendly future at walk.dvrpc.org.

This codebase facilitates the creation and analysis of routable networks, using any topological network dataset including:

• OpenStreetMap
• DVRPC's sidewalk network
• DVRPC's Level of Traffic Stress network

Data for the analysis is stored in a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and the process is scripted using Python.

The codebase is broken up into four primary modules, each with its own command-line-interface (CLI):

• db controls all data I/O
• access manages all accessibility/routing analyses
• gaps handles analysis processes that don't use network routing
• improvements generates tables showing the missing gaps in the sidewalk network

It builds on top of a variety of libraries, including pandana, pg_data_etl, osmnx, geopandas/pandas, geoalchemy2/sqlalchemy, & psycopg2

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Software Requirements

This codebase requires the following software:

• git
• Python 3
• PostgreSQL & PostGIS

Optional software includes:

• make if you'd like to take advantage of the bundled sets of commands defined in the Makefile
• tippecanoe is needed if you'd like to generate vector tile outputs for a webmap