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[Windows](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.35/abstreet_windows_v0_1_35.zip),
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[Mac](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.35/abstreet_mac_v0_1_35.zip),
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[Linux](https://github.com/dabreegster/abstreet/releases/download/v0.1.35/abstreet_linux_v0_1_35.zip),
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or [read all instructions](docs/INSTRUCTIONS.md)
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- [build from source](docs/dev.md)
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or [read all instructions](docs/INSTRUCTIONS.md) (new releases every Sunday)
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- [build from source](docs/dev.md) (new changes daily)
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Removing dedicated left-turn phases from a traffic signal:
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- Attempt a predefined challenge with particular objectives, like speeding up
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certain bus routes or designing a full bike network.
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### Roadmap
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### Roadmap and contributing
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In February 2020, user-testing and polishing before a wider announcement. After
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that:
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- Model more things: light rail, shared bike/walking paths, ridesharing, utility
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functions for different groups
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- Improve map and demand data quality
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- Continue polishing the UI and improving data visualization
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- More challenges and exploring radical new ideas (like Madrid superblocks)
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- Expand to other cities
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- Implement a web version
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See the [roadmap](docs/roadmap.md) for current work, including ways to help. If
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you want to bring this to your city or if you're skilled in design, traffic
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simulation, data visualization, or civic/government outreach, please contact
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Dustin Carlino at <dabreegster@gmail.com> or post at
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[r/abstreet](https://www.reddit.com/r/abstreet/).
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## Project mission
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- Sounding boards
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- [CUGOS](https://cugos.org/)
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- [Julian Michael](http://julianmichael.org/)
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## Contributing
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Help always needed! If you want to bring this to your city or if you're skilled
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in graphic or user experience, traffic simulation, data visualization, or
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civic/government outreach, please contact Dustin Carlino at
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<dabreegster@gmail.com> or post at
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[r/abstreet](https://www.reddit.com/r/abstreet/). I also welcome any
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contributions on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/abstreet).
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# Roadmap
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A/B Street has been under active development since June 2018. That's a long time
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-- what work is happening now and how can you contribute?
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## Current blockers before a "playable" release
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- The traffic model handles complex map geometry poorly. Permanent traffic jams
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unrealistically form, preventing a full day's worth of traffic from running on
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many maps.
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- Better scoring, so people understand how their changes affect different agents
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- Challenge/story modes structured like a game. We have ideas, but need game
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design help to flesh these out.
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## Ongoing work
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If I had resources to hire a team, this is roughly how I'd organize different
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roles. If you're interested in helping, these aren't strictly defined positions,
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just ideas of related tasks.
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### Map data / GIS
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Support more cities:
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- generalize the import pipeline (mostly done)
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- manage if everybody downloads all cities or not
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- write docs/tools to help people add new cities without programming experience
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- add support for non-OpenStreetMap input: GeoJSON for parking in Perth, other
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trip demand sources, etc
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- fix bugs for driving on the left side of the road
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Improve the quality of map geometry derived from OpenStreetMap:
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- try new algorithms to generate intersection polygons
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- make the map editor easy to use and handle evolving OSM data
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- use ML and lidar/satellite data to get extremely accurate curb / planter /
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sidewalk geometry
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Build tools and organize community mapping:
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- organize an effort to map how traffic signals are timed (partly started)
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- divide and track work for distributed mapathons
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Bring in new data to understand more about cities:
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- PM2.5 pollution
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- Tax / land value (is there inequitable access to transit?)
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### Simulation / modeling
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Totally new areas:
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- light rail
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- shared bike/pedestrian paths
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- ridesharing
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- micromobility (scooters, floating bikeshare)
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- more score functions (elevation gain, biking safety)
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- generating trip demand / activity models from scratch or modifying existing
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ones
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Improve existing models:
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- overtaking / lane-changing
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- pedestrian crowds
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- instant vehicle acceleration
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- pedestrians walking on road shoulders (some streets have no sidewalks)
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- buses: transfers, proper schedules, multiple buses per route
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### UI and data visualization
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We've got a UX designer, but implementing all of the new designs takes time.
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Also:
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- refactor and clean up the GUI library for other Rust users
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- lots of data viz design / implementation needed
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### Game design
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- the tutorial mode needs attention
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- many ideas for challenge/story modes, but playtesting, tuning, and game design
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needed
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### Web
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A/B Street runs on the web via WASM and WebGL; just waiting on vector text
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support. That unlocks:
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- Share community proposals online, discuss them, vote, etc
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- All of the infrastructure to do this
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## Contributing for non-programmers
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I've heard many people want to help with something other than programming or
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design. The best ideas are to start mapping, especially since most work is
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directly through OpenStreetMap:
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- sidewalks, crosswalks, on-street parking
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- traffic signal timing (needs more planning / tooling)
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- fixing geometry problems with the map editor (needs tooling)
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Playtesting by attempting to implement real proposals would also be helpful, to
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expose where it's awkward for A/B Street to edit the map and to write up
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problems encountered.
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I'd like to give more specific guidance / tooling, but that in itself takes time
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to organize.
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## Long-term vision
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Longer term, I'd like to take lots of the work in generating and interacting
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with high-detail OpenStreetMap-based maps and generalize it, possibly as a new
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OSM viewer/editor.
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More generally, I'd like to see how simulation can help individuals understand
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and explore other policy decisions related to cities. Domains I'm vaguely
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interested in, but not at all knowledgable about, include land-use / zoning,
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housing, and supply chains. In late March 2020, a new collaborator started a
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pandemic model using the existing simulation of people occupying shared spaces.
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What are other domains could benefit from the rich agent-based model we're
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building?
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