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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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## Next steps, summer 2020
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Afer the alpha launch in June, I plan to focus on:
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- shared biking/walking trails like the Burke Gilman
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- light rail
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- more score functions besides trip time, like safety/comfort
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- changing trip mode choice (if you make a bus route more desirable, switch some
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trips)
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- web support (so people can try out proposals without installing anything)
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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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### 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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- improve color schemes for colorblind players, implement night mode, rain
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effects, etc
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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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### Map data / GIS
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Support more cities:
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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 tools for easily improving relevant data in OSM
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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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### 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. Besides that:
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- Share community proposals online, discuss them, vote, etc
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## Contributing for non-programmers
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There's plenty to do besides programming!
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- Mapping, most of which directly contributes to OpenStreetMap:
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- sidewalks and crosswalks
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- [on-street parking](https://dabreegster.github.io/abstreet/map_parking.html)
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- [traffic signal timing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od_7WvBVYsvpY4etRI0sKmYmZnwXMAXcJxVmm8Iwdcg/edit?usp=sharing)
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- Playtesting by attempting to implement real proposals would also be helpful,
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to 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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- Advocacy: I'm not great at finding the right people to to get ideas
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implemented for real. Maybe you are?
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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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