# References ## Example use cases - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/9mtgkh/seven_places_to_add_bus_lanes_now/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/9oqkz9/how_traffic_patterns_will_change_after_seattles/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/9orqne/4_fresh_ideas_to_ease_seattles_coming_traffic/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/cr1r1l/why_the_fuck_does_the_right_lane_convert_to/ - https://twitter.com/transitrunner/status/1175068582142599168 ## Groups that may be eventually interested - Seattle Times Traffic Lab - https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/08/is-it-time-to-rethink-what-a-bike-lane-is/568483/ - http://openseattle.org/ - https://igniteseattle.com/ - http://seattlegreenways.org/ - https://www.livablecities.org/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/a39uv0/ok_so/ - https://mic.comotion.uw.edu/ - https://www.seattleinprogress.com/ - http://www.seattle.gov/seattle-pedestrian-advisory-board - Socrata - http://transportationcamp.org/ - https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/neighborhood-street-fund / https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/programs-and-services/your-voice-your-choice - https://commuteseattle.com/ - https://www.theurbanist.org/ - https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html - https://mynorthwest.com/category/chokepoints/ - https://blogs.uw.edu/ceadvice/2019/05/08/infrastructure-week-2019-welcome-uw-cee-students-and-faculty/ - https://escience.washington.edu/dssg/ - josie kresner from transport foundry - https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/08/city-planning-transportation-oakland-community-engagement/596050/ - tweeting small problems -> bug tracker - https://www.the74million.org/article/building-a-smarter-and-cheaper-school-bus-system-how-a-boston-mit-partnership-led-to-new-routes-that-are-20-more-efficient-use-400-fewer-buses-save-5-million/ ## Similar projects - Urban Footprint (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17895739) ## Seattle-specific SDOT asking for feedback: - http://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2017/02/08/from-signals-to-signs/ - https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/bike-program/protected-bike-lanes/n-34th-st-mobility-improvements - https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/transportation-planning/north-downtown-mobility-action-plan - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2016/12/01/check-out-seattles-12-winning-neighborhood-led-transportation-ideas/ Seattlites with opinions and ideas: - http://seattlegreenways.org/ - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2018/01/19/a-roosevelt-junior-redesigned-the-streets-around-his-high-school-and-his-plan-is-better-than-sdots/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/5rvss5/what_changes_would_you_make_to_seattles_bus/ - https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/congestion-tolling-could-finally-break-seattles-working-poor-heres-a-better-idea/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/86g3p9/id_get_back_an_hour_and_a_half_a_week/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/4z3ewl/what_are_seattles_worst_intersections/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/83h4ri/the_intersection_at_john_and_broadway_desperately/ - http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/sdot-document-library/citywide-plans/move-seattle ## Other projects - https://github.com/uwescience/TrafficCruising-DSSG2017 - http://sharedstreets.io/ - https://github.com/twpol/osm-tiles attempting to infer nice road geometry too ## Notes from related work ### SMARTS (https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/etanin/tist17.pdf) - Split map into sections, simulate in parallel, load-balance - has an IDM equation - tests against real TomTom data of average speed per link ### Games SimCity, Cities: Skylines https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=583429740 https://github.com/fegennari/3DWorld ### Open source urban planning UrbanSim ### Proprietary Sidewalk Labs Model ### Maps for people https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01147.pdf ### gamma.cs.unc.edu/RoadNetwork/wilkie_TVCG.pdf section 6.3 talks about offset polylines http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/RoadNetwork ### CityBound https://github.com/aeickhoff/descartes ### Discrete Event Simulation papers - section 5.1 of Advanced tutorial on microscopic discrete-event traffic simulation refers to some DES systems - Florian, Mahut, and Tremblay 2008 - Sumaryo, Halim, and Ramli 2013 - Salimifard and Ansari 2013 - Burghout, Koutsopoulos, and Andreasson 2006 - Thulasidasan, Kasiviswanathan, Eidenbenz, Galli, Mniszewski, and Romero 2009 - A Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model for Highly Congested Urban Networks - section 2.2 models lanes as a moving and queueing part, references other possibly useful papers - dont worry about multiple lanes for the moving part, just the turn queues at the end ## Tactical urbanism - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pajgyz/rogue-coder-turned-a-parking-spot-into-a-coworking-space