Open amcewen opened 4 years ago
I'm going to see how easy it would be to pull together a map showing some travel time contour areas for those 32 districts (i.e. how far you can get in 15 minutes of walking, or cycling, from—for example—St. Mary's church in West Derby). It looks like OpenTripPlanner can help build that sort of thing, which means I can make some progress on #34 too :grinning:
Having gotten an initial version of OpenTripPlanner up and running, it generates time travel isochrones like this (grey is 15 minutes walk to/from DoES Liverpool, green is 30 minutes...):
The time travel isochrone is great fun. Picking Anfield as the centre, we can look at...
If you want to play around with it...
Multimodal Trip Planner
to Analyst
in the drop-down menu at the topSet as Analysis Location
Travel Options
you're interested in from the dialog in the bottom-left cornerRefresh
button in the Travel Options
dialogThere's also an API for it, so, for example, http://trips.mcqn.com/otp/routers/default/isochrone?fromPlace=53.4105095,-2.9704659&mode=WALK&date=05-05-2020&time=8:00am&cutoffSec=300&cutoffSec=600&cutoffSec=900 will give you a JSON representation of the 5, 10 and 15 minute walk time contours around DoES Liverpool.
I think the next steps might include:
Analyst
isochrone viewAnything else? Anyone else want to help with any of this?
I'd be interested in helping you somehow! I'm on furlough, so I'm looking for interesting projects to hack away on
Haven't had a lot of time to work on this, but did fight with building OpenTripPlanner from source last weekend. Managed to build the dev-2.x
branch, but that didn't seem to have the isochrone stuff working in it (or I couldn't work out how to turn it on).
However, when trying to debug that all, I happened upon this site showing how easy/hard it is to get to schools in Amsterdam. That has a Jekyll/Leaflet.js/Turf.js front end, which then calls to an OpenTripPlanner instance behind the scenes to generate the isochrones.
It seems that's probably a better approach here, given (for the #15MinuteCity approach) we don't need the trip planner element that's front-and-centre of OpenTripPlanner.
I've spun up a new repo to try that out.
@davidtweaver, if you're still up for helping out that'd be ace. I guess there'll be a bit of Ruby for any customisation of Jekyll (I expect there'll at least be some generating isochrones at build time, maybe not much more) and then a bunch of Javascript to load the isochrones, let people generate one for where they live, etc. (I haven't used Leaflet or Turf before). Let me know what takes your fancy...
that's so cool!
Via Dan Hill's excellent (if extensive :-) Slowdown Papers I learnt of Paris' plans for a "15 minute city":
That seems to me like a good tool for thinking about how to make the city more walkable, and to explore how the city might adapt to include more local, distributed approaches (particularly post-pandemic and with an increasing climate crisis).
A few years back, the Liverpool Architectural Society ran the Integrated City Project, which had some echoes of this. I'm not sure much of it ever ended up online, and now all I can find is my blog post about it.
However, it does give us this interesting map of 32 areas of the city, which we could take as a starting point to see how we fare at the moment.
Lots of these areas have existing focal points for shops, libraries, etc. Maybe we can identify gaps that we can work to fill, or barriers that make it hard for the flow of people between neighbouring areas. Or maybe we'll realise we already have a 15-minute city, and we just need to think about it differently.