Comments on: Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/27/using-software-to-find-walkable-neighborhoods-and-live-car-free/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: London Van Driver http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/27/using-software-to-find-walkable-neighborhoods-and-live-car-free/comment-page-1/#comment-3886 London Van Driver Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:18:29 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1620#comment-3886 It wouldn't surprise me if neighbourhoods that offer walkable living will see price increases. And it would be great to see a few car sharing schemes operating out of the same places so people can have a car for the odd journey that requires one. It wouldn’t surprise me if neighbourhoods that offer walkable living will see price increases.
And it would be great to see a few car sharing schemes operating out of the same places so people can have a car for the odd journey that requires one.

]]> By: rzu http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/27/using-software-to-find-walkable-neighborhoods-and-live-car-free/comment-page-1/#comment-3879 rzu Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:10:03 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1620#comment-3879 Josh: Click through to the flickr page for the image. This is the Bay area shortest path tree. Red is transit. Black is walking http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2730913756/ Josh:
Click through to the flickr page for the image.
This is the Bay area shortest path tree. Red is transit. Black is walking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2730913756/

]]> By: Josh http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/27/using-software-to-find-walkable-neighborhoods-and-live-car-free/comment-page-1/#comment-3877 Josh Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:48:32 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1620#comment-3877 The first image is really beautiful, but I'm not quite sure what it represents. Are the black lines supposed to be travel routes toward or from rail stations? They don't seem to represent bus lines, which was my first thought. The first image is really beautiful, but I’m not quite sure what it represents. Are the black lines supposed to be travel routes toward or from rail stations? They don’t seem to represent bus lines, which was my first thought.

]]> By: marcos http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/27/using-software-to-find-walkable-neighborhoods-and-live-car-free/comment-page-1/#comment-3876 marcos Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:20:25 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1620#comment-3876 The algorithm needs a bit of fine tuning. A friend up on Bernal Heights, next to a 24 stop got a 94 walkability. Our house at 16th and South Van Ness got a 95. Once upon a time I wrote some perl to snarf up 511.org's schedules parse the HTML and generate some twin peak graphs of resource deployment over time by type of transit, TC, Metro or Diesel and by type of line to figure out how much the radial service cost when we were looking at creating downtown MUNI user fee. Ah, brute force computing and a conservative city attorney. -marc The algorithm needs a bit of fine tuning.

A friend up on Bernal Heights, next to a 24 stop got a 94 walkability.

Our house at 16th and South Van Ness got a 95.

Once upon a time I wrote some perl to snarf up 511.org’s schedules parse the HTML and generate some twin peak graphs of resource deployment over time by type of transit, TC, Metro or Diesel and by type of line to figure out how much the radial service cost when we were looking at creating downtown MUNI user fee.

Ah, brute force computing and a conservative city attorney.

-marc

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