Routes for walking to school
This script generates maps to analyze the potential walking routes for students to their school.
- I excluded the addresses of the students from the repository.
- The actual route generation is done with
brouter(using the safety profile) andOSRM(for the boundary polygons), those are run locally in docker containers. - The basemap is pulled from Stadia Maps. The usage of the script is well within the free tier, you'll need an API key from them.
Data sources
- School location data is from: https://data-wi-dpi.opendata.arcgis.com/
- Madison Bike Level of Traffic Stress is from: https://data-cityofmadison.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/cityofmadison::bike-lts/explore
- Student addresses provided by school.
Example figures
This script will generate a few figures:
A heatmap of student addresses:
A map of all the walking routes within the walk boundary:
A map of those walking routes colored by the level of traffic stress to bike
A map of cycling routes colored by the level of traffic stress to bike (with a 3 mile radius)
Using make
make osrm-data: downloads the OpenStreetMap data for Wisconsin, and preproccesses it for use with OSRM.make osrm-container: starts the OSRM containers (backends and frontends) for walking and biking.make brouter-data: clones the repositories for brouter and brouter-web and downloads the segment data. It also builds the docker images for brouter and brouter-web.make brouter-container: starts the brouter containers (backend and frontend).make walkwill run route_analysis.Rmd which calculates the walking routes using OSRM.make cycle-osrmwill run cycling_route_analysis.Rmd which calculates the biking routes using OSRM.make cycle-brouterwill run cycling_route_analysis_brouter.Rmd which calculates the biking routes using brouter.