A/B Street - Night markets at -15C

• Many new imports
• Improved turn restriction icon placement in the LTN tool (thanks Andy!)
• Speed up the main import process
• Use new GeoTIFF elevation importer

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 1 year ago

A/B Street - Eatadakimasu

• few bugfixes and new areas
• try to fix Windows launcher scripts

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 1 year ago

A/B Street - When the old dun cow caught fire

• edit turn restrictions in the LTN tool (thanks to Andy!)
• remove old procedurally generated buildings from some UK maps
• fix Santa crashes (thanks to Stuart!)

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 1 year ago

A/B Street - Well, not nece-celery

NOTE this was first released 14 August broken, then re-released 30 August fixed

• fix some map importing problems
• regenerate all maps, fixing a previous attempt at this
• import a few new places

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 1 year ago

A/B Street - The royalty's append-only adages

• show turn restrictions in the LTN tool (thanks Andy!)
• show main road labels when adjusting LTN boundaries
• import a few places and manually fix LTN boundary issues

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 2 years ago

A/B Street - Dangnabittery

NOTE! All prior savefiles in all apps won't load; the format has changed in an
incompatible way. There will be more incompatible changes for the next few
releases.

• fix 15m tool crash on maps with shared paths and sidewalks
• fix bug where alt+tab counts as tab keypress (thanks Abdul!)
• use HTTPS for all downloads
• let file pickers work on the web too
• let the LTN tool save and load proposals from regular files
• improve .zip binary releases, making all apps capture error logs
• disable broken tutorial mode (but thanks to Antelope for starting to fix it)
• internally change LTN tool to use regular map edits. some behavioral regressions with undo, but improvements with handling existing modal filters

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 2 years ago

A/B Street - In memory of Cowboy

• add vehicle ownership census stats to the LTN tool for England
• show Underground and National Rail stops in the LTN tool
• only download one map at a time, to deal with huge cities like London or Seattle
• misc bugfixes and performance improvements

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 2 years ago

A/B Street - The anti-climactician

• ltn tool now treats main roads better, and handles neighbourhoods with perimeters only partly on main roads
• ltn tool has a new cycle network tool, showing how quiet streets augment cycle lanes
• ltn bugfix: roads starting with a filter now behave correctly
• ltn routing: overlapping paths now start and end precisely at a building driveway
• major speedups to LTN tool initial load time and shortcut calculation, and map importing
• adjusting ltn boundaries is now a bit smoother when there are intermediate blocks
• 15m tool overhauled. score homes tool is no longer all-or-nothing

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 2 years ago

A/B Street - Heist & bug

• major fixes to LTN blockfinding, letting boundaries be edited more frequently
  and default boundaries look more reasonable
• osm2streets geometry fixes and new OSM data for GB maps
• show main roads vs neighbourhood perimeters in LTN tool
• help the user figure out what blocks to add first in the LTN tool boundary adjustment

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 2 years ago

A/B Street - Those Hampstead Heathens

• new LTN tool to show driving impact from everywhere within a neighbourhood
• update most external dependencies (hopefully without introducing any new platform-specific problems)
• update osm2streets, with new default lane widths
• hopefully fix some geometry-related crashes
• update all OSM data for all maps, and always include the full area
• cosmetic improvement to unzoomed road outline styling

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 2 years ago

A/B Street - The Phoenix of Chance Street

• warn about problematic LTN boundaries
• add a school street filter
• add a 20mph LTN tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 2 years ago

A/B Street - Squeezing the Tube from the wrong end

Sorry for the huge delay since the last release; I've been busy with adjacent projects

• upgrade osm2streets, with various geometry fixes
• shrink LTN build times a bit
• fix LTN bug where with crazy route times involving private roads
• fix Santa in downloaded version, before data is downloaded
• clean up the 15m tool's UI and mark footways as walkable
• speed up polygon editing tool and add a "leafblower" mode
• start experimenting with "custom boundary" areas in the LTN tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - The moving feast machine

• left/right driving side is now determined automatically when importing maps
• LTN route tool can now start/end at roads, not just buildings
• LTN tool doesn't constantly warn about bus gates and one-way roads
• fix a few crashes in the LTN tool and performance of boundary selection
• add elevation data for all of the UK, thanks to Malcolm
• fix bus lane placement in left-sided maps

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - Orange you glad, Mr copy baron

• start a mode in the LTN tool showing and editing crossings and porosity
• draw one-way arrows in the LTN tool less horribly (in narrow roads or with labels)
• internally simplify OSM import process, by relying on osmium
• speed up OSM XML parsing and reduce memory overhead

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - A very bazaar pitcher of whipped cream

• fix missing shortcuts in the LTN tool, involving corners where a main road changes name
• start improving how saving LTN proposals works, for quickly comparing alternatives
• use real photos to explain the modal filter types
• fix a few reported crashes
• substantially speed up map importing for certain areas with lots of amenities
• fix an edge case with point closures defined at intersections

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - Bar & Bed

• massive LTN UI overhaul based on Madison's designs
• start importing footways and shared-use paths from OSM
• change text scale factor in the LTN tool without restarting
• many small ltn UX fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - Foam rolling your shins

Join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/nCvMD4xj4K

• overhaul LTN navigation between modes
• much nicer road labels in the LTN tool
• prompt the user to add a bus gate on appropriate roads
• huge internal refactor of Polygons complete. thanks to Michael for help!
• slightly improve LTN route tool, partly by hiding extra controls by default
• improve LTN colors for parks and water

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - The floating market

Please join the new A/B Street Discord: https://discord.gg/nCvMD4xj4K

I updated the Linux build to use older glibc version, as it was before a ~week ago, by using Ubuntu 20.04 to build, not 22.04

• trying to filter a one-way road will now prompt you to change it
• fix LTN shortcut calculation: make them stay inside the neighbourhood and handle access=private roads
• add optional bus route layer in the LTN tool
• draw new / existing modal filters differently
• fix important bug causing some routes to make illegal turns
• fix a few OSM import crashes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - mackareldaddy

Note the Linux build now uses Ubuntu 22.04, not 18.04, and thus requires a new glibc to work

• initial support for uploading and sharing LTN proposals!!!
• changes to one-ways / road direction are now saved in the LTN tool and work with undo
• deal with "holes" in the middle of blocks when adjusting LTN boundaries
• add zoom buttons and a collapsible legend to the LTN tool
• import missing London boroughs
• start internally switching to a better representation of tessellations that aren't simple polygons. Thanks Michael!

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - The cèilidh tornado and Canova Hall faux boiz

• fix some major crashes with the LTN tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - Between the City & the City

Most of the exciting work this week has been happening over in https://github.com/a-b-street/osm2streets, but the results aren't reflected here yet

• another LTN color scheme update
• some LTN bugfixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - All over the everywhere

• LTN design overhaul: remove the zoomed view, simpler road labels, multiple modal filter types
• overhaul the LTN impact prediction tool: make it work on all maps, improve how before/after paths drawn, fix major bug with paths changing spuriously, add CSV export
• transform a simple case of dual carriageways into a single road with a divider lane
• workaround broken LTN partitioning in some maps
• fix color scheme when drawing LTN cells as areas
• show an icon for schools in the LTN tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 2 years ago

A/B Street - Patissoirée

(Still too soon for "Notre Damaged")

• rearrange LTN tool controls -- you can now view shortcuts by road
• bug fixes and perf fixes for scrolling and drawing road labels

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - strength in numbers

• major LTN color redesign
• fix LTN modal filters that were pre-existing in OSM data
• fix missing schools and other OSM amenities
• bad elevation data disabled in most maps (it never worked outside of Seattle)
• internal refactor to extract osm2streets code to another repo, allowing faster iteration and some upcoming related projects
• re-enable Mac binary code-signing

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - The (imminent) arrival of Rafael

• improvements for road labels in the LTN tool
• explain errors to the user better in the LTN tool
• prevent more illegal combinations of filters, one-ways, and dead-ends
• improved UX after downloading a new map natively
• fix some missing U-turns
• temporarily disabled code-signing for Mac binaries

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - Ska folding

• improve the LTN route planner UI

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - never underestimate sheer force of will and vietnamese coffee

• small LTN fixes: don't filter one-way roads or mess up undo with the freehand tool, highlight the boundary road
• LTN style changes: traffic signals, don't show stop signs or crosswalks, get the center line color correct in the UK
• create a second Bristol LTN consultation mode, with a special overriden boundary
• initial support for modifying one-way streets in the LTN tool (with many limitations)

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - It's Sunday somewhere

(It's really not, though.)

• revive an internal A/B test mode to keep simulations between two similar maps in sync
• new layer for pedestrian density
• improve the SMP scenario
• ltn: one-way border arrows, freehand filter tool can be used from either editing mode,
• simplify LTN cells around non-driveable roads
• introduce a Bristol consultation mode for the LTN tool
• export problem list to CSV, and make all CSV/GeoJSON exports work on the web too

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - you can't fall if you're already scuttling along the ground

• new UI tools to explore risk exposure and problems: click a person's problem to time-warp and watch it, show A/B test of problems per road/intersection, time-series of problems per road/intersection
• fix various crashes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - My undoing, again

• you can now edit crosswalks!
• more realistic behavior of pedestrians at stop signs -- they won't endlessly swarm and cut off vehicles
• show a popup when the web browser version crashes
• change metric/imperial settings automatically based on the map loaded
• update Seattle OSM data (first time in over 6 months)

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 3 years ago

A/B Street - Dumbledorito

• breaking change: saved LTN proposals have a new format. Please contact me if you need to fix any previously saved files.
• starting to revive public transit support a bit, simplifying how many times pathfinding happens
• adjust LTN filter drawing style and allow toggling filters on "degenerate" intersections
• fix a rare simulation crash involving a vehicle exiting driveways off-side
• slow down pedestrians walking on crowded sidewalks, and track where this problem happens
• thanks to Michael, Mac binaries are now signed!

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Tiramisconstrued

• fix major bug where pathfinding after map edits was broken
• make the LTN impact tool show results more reasonably

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Suppressed goat screams

Special mid-week release mere hours before the AI:UK workshop!

• show biking and walking directions too in the LTN tool
• add help and info buttons to the LTN tool
• show area of neighborhoods

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Whirlwinded & Barcelonely

• show rat-runs on the connectivity tab; understand both detours and cells as you place filters
• merge blocks with different winding orders
• better behavior when switching proposals on the rat-run tab
• new automatic filter heuristic inspired by min cut
• adjust LTN color scheme, de-emphasizing buildings
• simplify LTN UI, hiding advanced controls

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Semanticklish

• re-import the current map from fresh OSM data (native only)
• adjust LTN panels

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Pestolence

• overhaul the rat-run mode: tighten up things counting as shortcuts, keep the same path after adding a filter
• change the LTN route planning tool to be map-wide, not per-neighborhood
• place filters at non 4-way intersections
• shrink some cases of overlapping roads, improving geometry when OSM data is not great
• a first round of simplifying LTN panels
• when the LTN blockfinding would've crashed previously, just fallback to using more expensive blockfinding
• bugfix: detect existing filters on really short roads
• fix initial camera placement outside of the main A/B Street app

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - When nestled things get stuck

• swap between multiple LTN proposals easily
• LTN boundary selection is now faster, has simpler colors, has a freehand lasso tool, and includes blocks near roads w
  ithout sidewalks
• quickly create multiple modal filters by freehand drawing
• core geometry fixes: remedy some lane center lines that explode at sharp angles
• upgrade window management dependencies; if you experience new problems, please report

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - SEIRious Black

• fix various crashes relating to geometry and edits near public transit
• internal refactoring to make the map_editor debugging tool build much faster
• improved geometry near dog-leg intersections in some maps

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Perusing Murakami in pubs

• detect existing modal filters in OSM
• import Melbourne and most London boroughs
• simplify road center-lines after merging roads
• improve my workflow for regenerating all maps locally in parallel
• save LTN proposals in web browsers to local storage
• some small LTN UI fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Twenty is plenty (but I'm not twenty)

• save/load LTN proposals as local files only
• improve LTN block tracing near railroads and bridges/tunnels, fixing many overlapping areas
• LTN UI: draw cell & neighborhood areas beneath roads, add road name search tool everywhere
• make modal filters visible even at very low zoom levels
• extend the quietness view and automatic filter heuristics to the entire map
• improve the travel demand model for UK data by handling desire lines starting/ending off-map

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - The Vauxhall Tonic (every burp is nervous)

• LTN boundary selection can now split neighborhoods in most ways
• allow UK scenarios to be generated with one-shot imports
• fix pedestrian rendering crash that happened in some maps
• fix how cycle-and-foot-only roads are drawn unzoomed
• make LTN impact prediction tool stop running out of video memory
• internal refactoring to separate Scenario stuff from rest of simulation code

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 3 years ago

A/B Street - Liquidy Thicket and a Series of Unhygienic Events

• sped up initial loading of the LTN tool on web by splitting it from the main A/B Street binary
• LTN UX: preserve dropdown settings and saved routes
• draw LTN cells as proper polygons, always clipped to the neighborhood boundary (instead of a grid)
• support LTN GeoJSON export in web
• prototyped an impact prediction for LTN schemes by comparing per-road volumes using a demand model. Not working yet.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Loose bricks sink hips

• experimenting with a few heuristics for automatically placing modal filters
• improved rendering in the "browse neighborhoods" screen: show all filters, emphasize boundary roads, optionally show cell connectivity, and optionally show how "good" the neighborhood is
• draw disconnected cells more loudly
• fix bug introduced recently that broke listing files (especially newly imported maps)
• add an "undo" button for the LTN tool
• export all LTN data to GeoJSON -- the cell polygons are slow to produce, and buggy, though
• start ranking neighborhoods by how many streets with through-traffic exist
• make the "adjust boundary" UI mostly work now -- individual blocks are transferred between neighborhoods properly in most cases

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - The interconnectedness of some things

• bugfixes for partitioning space into blocks, which helps the LTN tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - An unintentionally badass scar

• improved LTN rat-run detection
• LTN UI overhaul, expressing 3 modes for per-neighborhood analysis, all of which can edit modal filters
• LTN drawing fixes -- including the 4-color theorem to make sure adjacent areas appear distinct
• LTN tool now understands roads that're already tagged as car-free in OSM
• LTN tool can adjust boundaries a bit more precisely, but this still half-broken
• Marcel overhauled walking turns, letting them be bidirectional and switching to a simpler implementation of crosswalk generation
• Marcel improved the geometry of all turns
• fix downloading maps in the Windows version

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Fogbike

• draw custom boundaries for LTNs (but can't yet save the boundaries)
• rendering modal filters better when zoomed in
• v3 of a rat-run detector, and showing a heatmap of quiet/busy streets

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - sconus sultannical

• bus routes now imported for Seattle and SF, from GTFS
• fix "bowtie" intersection shapes, resulting from incorrect clockwise ordering
• few small OSM data fixes for London and Leeds
• fix crash when customizing a route in Ungap the Map

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Outwalking the rat run

• render one-way markings as outlines by Marcel
• few fixes, mostly just importing some new places
• the project lead has moved to London ;)

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - brownie bear

• no right turn at red lights, in most of the world. thanks Marcel!
• simplify map importing config
• some fixes to OSM crosswalk matching
• placing LTN modal filters more intuitively
• change level of traffic assumptions in LTN pathfinder. thanks Andrew!
• diagonal modal filters for LTNs

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - mostportem

See https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/project/history/retrospective/index.html for a look back on the project so far. I started https://github.com/sponsors/dabreegster to fundraise for a full-time Rust developer.

• added basic routing to LTN tool
• roads with modal filters belong to two traffic cells
• progress on LTN rat run detection, but still not ready
• new option to use OSM crossing nodes to model unmarked foot crossings

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - for all we know nobody knows

• rewrote the low-traffic neighborhood prototype. neighborhood detection much better, internal streets grouped into traffic cells, two rendering styles for cells. browsing rat runs not ready yet, disabled
• new shared title screen, to switch easily between all A/B Street apps

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - there's plenty of elbow room down this rabbit hole for some yak-shaving

• new algorithms to find and render city block and neighborhoods. almost ready for use in main applications
• fixed the worst of curb rendering bugs
• new mapbox gl + abstreet demo
• adding command-line --help to most programs

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - the devil I don't know

• ungap: consolidate editing controls
• workaround some bugs loading map edits
• ungap: add ability to compare a trip before/after some proposed changes
• ungap: make the high-stress metric handle one side of a road missing bike lanes
• ungap route sketcher easier to use when zoomed far out
• ui fixes: units in barrier type, dropdowns focus-fighting with drag-drop cards
• perf: smaller city overview maps

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Ungap the Map

• ungap the map bike network tool launched! bike.abstreet.org has documentation and videos
• uploading and sharing proposals now works!
• super speedup to applying map edits

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - the world burns either way

• bike network tool now shows alternate routes
• small fixes to mode shift and LTN tool
• major internal UI refactors started

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Scootadootling about

• incorporated a configurable mode shift and carbon emissions model with the bike network tool
• partially implemented Mara's UX changes to the bike tool
• improved UI map importing: no more overwriting, and naming new maps
• prototyped a new low-traffic neighborhood / rat-run tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - eggplant caveater

• bike network's route tool: naming saved routes, showing details about the route
• switch from s3 to cloudfront CDN; all downloads should be faster
• further pathfinding performance improvements
• fix bike quick sketch tool in left-handed maps
• consolidate tools into a single CLI and include it in the release

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - and to this very basic emotion, I said something like, "I can do something about that."

• dramatically improve time to recalculate pathfinding
• deploy raw map editor to web, to support a long-form article: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/map/geometry/index.html
• long-form article about the simulation: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/trafficsim/discrete_event/index.html
• small fixes to ungap route tool

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - grass-fed milk

• bike network tool UI fixes, especially for the routing tool
• use drag and drop for traffic signal editor and route waypoints
• small internal map model performance boost
• heavy documentation week

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - The last guffaw

• releasing a new tool dedicated to planning bike networks!
• massive overhaul to the road editor, including lane cards that can be both dragged AND dropped
• new road labeling in unzoomed mode
• new tool to quickly sketch roads to edit
• new tool to plan routes and see elevation/road types along the way
• load previously saved proposals on web
• disabled prototype: uploading proposals to a central server for easier sharing

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - We see you, windowpeople

• more progress on cycleway snapping, but still not ready
• road editor sets new lane width better
• load proposals picks a better order
• a new experiment unfolding...

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Burkeberries

• brand new day mode color scheme!
• road editor automatically adjusts lane width, and other small UI fixes
• show bike network gaps in the mode shift dashboard
• progress on snapping cyclepaths, representing buffers, fixing up nearby geometry
• fixed crosswalks for consolidated intersections on left-handed maps

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 3 years ago

A/B Street - Clothes grow up so quickly these days

• new intersection consolidation algorithm, applied around Seattle and Tempe with really great results!
• Seattle fixes: deduplicating cycletracks, connecting Arboretum bike paths
• add new lane types to express buffers for protected bike lanes
• better neighborhood shapes by Michael, in the commuter patterns layer
• fixed Overpass imports, which were missing border intersections

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Yolkai

• started a mode shift dashboard
• individual trips can be explored from the risk exposure dashboards now
• fixed actdev scenarios
• web file loaders now show progress
• performance improvements for editing roads
• various bug fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Rootbeer Floatsom (but for our horses)

• special mid-week release to support a blog post
• using infinite parking for the arboretum scenario
• add y axis to trip time dashboard
• faster OSM import using overpass
• internal tools for working on intersection consolidation and cyclepath snapping

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - nightmissing

• UI: improve elevation profiles, add road editor revert button, thought bubbles for people climbing steep inclines
• fixed signal timing for 3-ways
• fixed a race condition with two vehicles going for the same offstreet parking
• fixing pedestrian speeds on inclines
• improved relative positons of adjacent lanes on curvy roads
• internal speedups for map importing and a tool to compare two maps, for intersection consolidation
• let lane-changing happen in more cases (when vehicle1 wants to pass vehicle2, but can't until a few lanes later)
• add a mode to import a region-wide map without local roads
• internal pathfinding refactor to switch between contraction hierarchies & Dijkstra more flexibly, reduce duplicate higher-level input graph logic

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Blind dog in wagon

• vehicles can exit driveways in either direction!
• bugfixes with lane-changing, time-warping, settings, nondeterministic z-ordering, changing speed limits
• speed up edit mode on large maps
• loading maps on native now sees locally imported maps
• smaller files across the board by serializing f64s as integers
• map data quality: greenlake cycletrack, better stop sign placement, crosswalks at consolidated intersections
• risk exposure matrix labels
• keep cars out of bus lanes with better costing

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Flash ferment / the Quickling

• vehicles will now dynamically change lanes to pass slower traffic! in limited cases only.
• vehicles can now exit a building's driveway and immediately cut across a few lanes
• new UI tool to easily find when trips start
• fix some crashes related to widening roads

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Dragon milk

• simulation speedup by storing turns better
• new website/docs maybe halfway done
• sped up rust build process
• improved some geometry around Tempe
• fix broken screenshot diff test
• trevor added the "cloud of uncertainty" in the 15m tool to show borders

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - The Grand Coffeeshop Tour

• lots of internal writing, presentations... not quite ready for an audience yet
• fixed weird turn lane arrows
• GMNS signal import now works for many intersections, thanks to crosswalk inference
• road editor UI fixes
• speed up starting a simulation with infinite parking
• possible breakthrough with intersection consolidation

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Leauxtied

• map importing fixes: multiple left/right turn lanes, combo bus/turn lanes, tidy up degenerate intersections along cyclepaths, allow explicitly tagged U-turns, better stop sign placement heuristics
• in Seattle, snap trips entering/leaving map through borders more carefully
• prebake data to cover trips starting near midnight. down from about 3000 cancelled trips in montlake to 300
• road editor UI: explain disabled actions
• Michael added new "arterial crossing" risk for pedestrians
• improved GMNS signal timing importer

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Taro bingsoothsayer

• experimental road editor finally released! more improvements still planned
• save/restore settings (like camera angle and units) between sessions
• Michael improved performance of scrolling panels
• Michael adding more dataviz to travel time and risk exposure dashboards
• regenerating all maps now happens on the cloud -- faster and less harmful to my poor laptop
• exploring some debug tools and strategies for consolidating intersections

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - glissadists melting

• starting to import GMNS traffic signal timing. this will eventully let us import from Synchro!
• more work on the new road editor, but still not ready. lane widths are now more varied and realistic.
• Trevor overhauled the OSM amenity categories and added a multi-source isochrone to the 15m tool to find places without access to some amenity
• partial work running the map importer in a Docker container, to eventually speed up the import process in the cloud
• signal editor UI adjustments
• time warp UI fixes and a new risk exposure contingency matrix by Michael
• internal code cleanup using clippy, by Vinzent

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Lopsideways seiza

• improvements to experimental road editor
• 2 more UX studies and a slew of small fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster almost 4 years ago

A/B Street - Rustaceans & grits

• first prototype of the new road editor!
• much easier way to download new cities -- just try to open a map you don't yet have. much smaller .zip release now
• track two "risk exposure" events -- when cars want to overtake cyclists, and passing through a large intersection -- and start to show data on trip panels, a new "problem map" layer, and a WIP summary dashboard
• better geometry for some merged intersections, and applying the algorithm all around Tempe
• another UX study and some tutorial UX fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Tostonical vows

• fix bugs running the importer
• import grid2demand scenarios from the UI
• implement more of road widening internals
• new --minimal_controls option by Michael for screencasts
• ran the first UX study in a long time, lots of feedback on the tutorial and traffic signal editor

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Periphfury

• massive internal change to make pathfinding use roads, not lanes. paves the way for many exciting things, like...
• changing the number and width of lanes per road! WIP, debug mode-only UI for now

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - A/B Studio

• change walking and biking speed based on elevation
• import elevation data for all maps -- though there may still be quality issues
• filter trip table by start/end location on the map
• Michael made the web deployment much more flexible, in preparation for a blog post

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Hausbroken

• import elevation data for Seattle!
• add layers showing steep streets, elevation contours, and show elevation profile for bike/pedestrian routes
• faster, simpler pathfinding for access-restricted zones
• faster map importer and some UI fixes

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Municipaladin

• released a new tool to import anywhere from OSM from within the game!
• UI: finished trips meter, consolidated agent counters on minimap, move layers to the left for small screens, new tab style, use new day colorscheme in other apps
• fixed a bug with comparing the route somebody took before/after changes
• start integrating Eldan's elevation data and reviving parts of the UI that use the data
• better routing into/out of access-restricted neighborhoods

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - regretful durian hiccups

• vast improvements to roundabouts, gridlock, and ordering at stop signs
• consolidated UI panels in simulation modes; should work much better for smaller screens
• measure intersection delay more intuitively
• use straight lines for right/left turns at small intersections
• various bugfixes and small UI improvements
• started a tool to import from OSM without the command line; should be ready next week

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - a baby in every bite

Linux users, if you get a "version `GLIBC_2.29' not found" error, let me know. Github actions switched to a new version of Ubuntu.

• new travel demand generator using UK origin/destination data
• the 15m and OSM viewer web apps also have nicer URLs now
• 2 more seattle maps complete without gridlock!
• less seattle maps bundled with the release by default, to keep file size sane
• many UI changes for the actdev integration, pending rollout to abst generally
• initial experiments with implementing lane over-taking and road-based pathfinding

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Beef welldoneington

• import service roads and separate cyclepaths in all maps!
• brand new day theme, designed by Yuwen and implemented by Michael!
• improved rendering where sidewalks and shoulders of roads meet
• fix overlapping panels on HiDPI screens with low resolution
• prototype of loading abst in the background on a webpage
• adjusted routing, penalizing unprotected left turns onto bigger roads, which often contribute to gridlock
• fixed some turn restrictions at merged intersections
• widgetry: change fonts mid-line, dynamically load extra fonts (for a Taipei map)

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Most definitely not poke

• easier to share web URLs with the current viewport
• more actdev integration work
• misc bugfixes, especially with uber-turns and the city picker UI
• revived the map_editor tool for drawing small test maps and iterating faster on merging intersection geometry

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Soothing stomach cake

• loads of work integrating abstreet with the actdev project, and importing tons of maps
• new tool to find the geofabrik OSM source best fitting a boundary
• fix crosswalks and traffic signal policies in left-handed driving countries
• fix initial zoom when starting with flags to copy the viewport from OSM
• Bruce added lagging green signal heuristics
• make it easier to click tiny bikes and pedestrians
• change the URL in the web version as you change maps/scenarios
• split the list of cities by country, and improved the UI for picking a place

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Twice-dumpstered anything

• split documentation into a separate git repo
• UI: filter throughput layer by mode, render stop signs better
• started a debug tool to live-tune routing parameters and see the effects on a single route or all trips
• Michael improved the web loading screen and added webgl1 support for ios browsers
• cars looking for parking now randomize a bit, eliminating the unrealistic "parking snakes/parades" effect
• Bruce fixed a critical bug with uber-turns, helping ease gridlock in some maps
• new tool to procedurally generate houses along empty residential roads, useful when OSM is missing most data

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Sinewey orchestrations

• new map, Rainier Valley, is the 3rd ever to finish without gridlock! One of the fixes was collapsing traffic circles into a normal intersecton
• bugfixes for map importing: cycleways with left-handed driving, matching traffic signals, odd number of lanes, u-turns
• further fixes after the great button refactor

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster about 4 years ago

A/B Street - Ajitummy

• massive button overhaul by Yuwen and Michael
• the color scheme automatically switches between day/night based on simulation time!
• significant progress on editing the map without resetting the simulation
• various bugfixes, new maps, improvements to running the importer, faster updater

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Eggs Woodhouse

• dramatically speed up starting scenarios by deferring when public transit riders pick their route
• start importing separate cyclepaths and pedestrian plazas for Cambridge, many adjustments to make these start working
• full panel for picking a scenario to start
• import trip data from the actdev project for Cambridge
• improve inferred map elements (stop signs and crosswalks) near short roads
• heuristics for automatically finding and merging short roads. disabled, but solid start

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Reishi-O's

• dramatically improve initial web loading and be able to start with any map
• city picker UI now better organizes other regions with many maps
• new tool to convert SUMO networks into A/B Street maps
• taking screenshots of the entire map now much faster, portable. trying to use for Leaflet raster tiles, but not working yet.
• widgetry UI library now doesn't depend on anything specific to A/B Street
• internal refactoring for error handling

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - どんぶりと

• huge breakthrough on merging intersections to handle short roads. applied to just a few places so far
• support one-way roads with default traffic signal heuristics
• 15 min explorer: find residences close to user-specified businesses, see unwalkable roads
• bugfix from Bruce to prevent sim from crashing when a short road is over capacity
• automatically fetch census data for any US map and use for scenario generation, from Michael
• some initial experiments to bring A/B Street's lane rendering to the web using Leaflet

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Inverted pudding

• variable traffic signal timing, thanks to Bruce
• 15 min explorer: more walking options (require shoulders, change speed), more organized business search
• 15 min santa: remember upzoning choices
• misc bugfixes and refactoring
• 2021 roadmap drafted

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - 15-minute Santa

• released the 15-minute Santa experiment!
• trip info panels now show more continuous progress along a route
• fixing inactive buttons stretching too much

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Neighborhoodlums riding the scallywagon

• vehicles will lane-change less erratically during uber-turns (sequences of turns through multiple traffic signals close together)
• debug mode has a "blocked-by graph" tool to understand dependencies between waiting agents
• try multiple OpenGL video mode options if the first choice fails (thanks Michael!)
• refactoring trip starting code and the minimap
• non-Latin fonts now supported on web too, thanks to rustybuzz release
• new small maps in Seattle included in the release, and NYC added to optional cities
• saving some player state on the web (mostly camera position per map, for the main game)
• partial prototype of a new census-based scenario generator, thanks to help from the Amazon SSPA hackathon
• significant progress on the experiment, about one week left...

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Apple tight for merengue

• split separate tools into their own executables
• misc bug fixes and other refactoring, focused on GUI code mostly
• most of a prototype done for an experiment
• map added for north seattle

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - The Undustin

• prototyped a new 15-minute neighborhood tool
• overhaul internal simulation input code -- better performance, way simpler
• debug tool to record traffic around a few intersections and replay later

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Fruity booty

• added experimental day/night support; run with --day_night
• slight performance improvements by avoiding applying no-op edits
• new tests for lane-changing behavior, used to more safely allow more realistic behavior blocking "degenerate" intersections
• experimenting with filling in gaps between one-way roads, to represent medians

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Squashedacos

• overhaul data/system management: switch from Dropbox to S3, reorganize files, add an in-game updater
• started a UI for collision dataviz, with data in the UK and Seattle
• improve turns between separate footways
• simplify the process of importing a new city

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Devil eggs

• tooling to automatically extract different shapes around cities without an explicit bounding polygon
• imported many maps for an OSM viewer demo
• misc bug fixes, UI tweaks, and perf improvements, especially for the web version
• start using OSM sidewalks data properly in krakow -- more work needed, but better start

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago

A/B Street - Wedding quarantine

• UI: click unzoomed agents, switch between metric/imperial units, show reason for cancelled trips, new "faded zoom" color scheme based on mapbox, more detailed agent counts in the top-right panel's tooltips
• started a new dedicated OpenStreetMap viewer, will split out from A/B Street later
• fix alpha colors on web
• bugfixes for the new asynchronous map loading
• some substantial simulation performance gains (168s to 90s on one benchmark!)
• lots of progress towards editing the map without resetting the simulation to midnight. please test with --live_map_edits and report any issues
• internal refactoring and code documentation

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Rust
Published by dabreegster over 4 years ago