September 15, 2012
For some personal research I’m working on, I’m using OpenTripPlanner for automobile routing. I’ve already applied speed limits to the routing algorithm, but that’s only part of accurately modeling automobile travel time. While for a cyclist or a pedestrian, the amount of time spent actually moving at full speed may be the lion’s share of their journey, for an automobile this is not true. Especially in city traffic, it’s likely that a large part of the time is spent waiting at intersections, accelerating, or moving through congestion (or not moving through congestion).
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