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https://github.com/UDST/urbanaccess

A tool for GTFS transit and OSM pedestrian network accessibility analysis by UrbanSim
https://github.com/UDST/urbanaccess

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A tool for GTFS transit and OSM pedestrian network accessibility analysis by UrbanSim

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UrbanAccess

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|Build Status|



A tool for computing GTFS transit and OSM pedestrian networks for

accessibility analysis.



|Integrated AC Transit and BART transit and pedestrian network travel times for Oakland, CA|

*Integrated AC Transit and BART transit and pedestrian network travel times for Oakland, CA*



Overview

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UrbanAccess is tool for creating multi-modal graph networks for use in

multi-scale (e.g. address level to the metropolitan level) transit

accessibility analyses with the network analysis tool Pandana.

UrbanAccess uses open data from General Transit Feed Specification

(GTFS) data to represent disparate operational schedule transit networks

and pedestrian OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to represent the pedestrian

network. UrbanAccess provides a generalized, computationally efficient,

and unified accessibility calculation framework by linking tools for: 1)

network data acquisition, validation, and processing; 2) computing an

integrated pedestrian and transit weighted network graph; and 3) network

analysis using Pandana.



UrbanAccess offers the following tools:



* GTFS and OSM network data acquisition via APIs

* Network data validation and regional network aggregation

* Compute network impedance:



  * by transit schedule day of the week and time of day

  * by transit mode

  * by including average passenger headways to approximate passenger transit stop wait time



* Integrate pedestrian and transit networks to approximate pedestrian scale accessibility

* Resulting networks are designed to be used to compute accessibility

  metrics using the open source network analysis tool

  `Pandana `__



  * Compute cumulative accessibility metrics

  * Nearest feature analysis using POIs



Let us know what you are working on or if you think you have a great use

case by tweeting us at ``@urbansim`` or post on the UrbanSim

`forum `__.



Citation and academic literature

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To cite this tool and for a complete description of the UrbanAccess methodology see the paper below:



`Samuel D. Blanchard and Paul Waddell. 2017. "UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. No. 2653. pp. 35–44. `__



For other related literature see `here `__.



Reporting bugs

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Please report any bugs you encounter via `GitHub

issues `__.



Contributing to UrbanAccess

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If you have improvements or new features you would like to see in

UrbanAccess:



1. Open a feature request via `GitHub issues `__.

2. Contribute your code from a fork or branch by using a Pull Request and request a review so it can be considered as an addition to the codebase.



Install the latest release

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conda

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UrbanAccess is available on Conda Forge and can be installed with::



    conda install urbanaccess -c conda-forge



pip

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UrbanAccess is available on PyPI and can be installed with::



    pip install urbanaccess



Development Installation

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Developers contributing code can install using the ``develop`` command rather than ``install``. Make sure you are using the latest version of the codebase by using git's ``git pull`` inside the cloned repository.



To install UrbanAccess follow these steps:



1. Git clone the `UrbanAccess repo `__

2. in the cloned directory run: ``python setup.py develop``



To update to the latest development version:



Use ``git pull`` inside the cloned repository



Documentation and demo

----------------------



Documentation for UrbanAccess can be found

`here `__.



A demo jupyter notebook for UrbanAccess can be found in the `demo

directory `__.



Minimum GTFS data requirements

------------------------------



The minimum `GTFS data

types `__ required to use

UrbanAccess are: ``stop_times``, ``stops``, ``routes`` and ``trips`` and

one of either ``calendar`` or ``calendar_dates``.



Related UDST libraries

----------------------



-  `Pandana `__

-  `OSMnet `__



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.. |Integrated AC Transit and BART transit and pedestrian network travel times for Oakland, CA| image:: docs/source/_images/travel_time_net.png