abstreet
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
Science Score: 46.0%
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Repository
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: a-b-street
- License: apache-2.0
- Language: Rust
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/
- Size: 402 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 8,023
- Watchers: 76
- Forks: 364
- Open Issues: 223
- Releases: 165
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
A/B Street
2025 Update
As of 2025, this project has turned into several others, developed by A/B Street Ltd:
- Network Planning Workspace, a cycle network planning tool
- Low-Traffic neighbourhood tool
- Plan Your Active Travel Schemes for sketching changes to infrastructure
- 15-minute neighbourhood tool for exploring how land use and transportation interact
- Severance Snape to explore how far walking routes detour to cross big roads
- od2net to calculate the most important roads to prioritize for cycling
Project overview
Ever been stuck in traffic on a bus, wondering why is there legal street parking instead of a dedicated bus lane? A/B Street is a project to plan, simulate, and communicate visions for making cities friendlier to people walking, biking, and taking public transit. We create software to simulate traffic, edit streets and intersections, plan bike networks, create low-traffic neighborhoods, and educate the public about 15-minute neighborhoods through games. The project works anywhere in the world, thanks to OpenStreetMap.
- Run it on your web browser, Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, or read all instructions
- build from source
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Documentation
- User guide
- Technical
- Project
Project mission
We amplify the efforts of individuals and advocacy groups who campaign to transition cities away from private motor vehicles. We believe in transparent and reproducible analysis, so all of our work is open source and based on public data. We believe everybody should have a voice in shaping their city, so our software aims to be easy to use.
Why not leave city planning to professionals? People are local experts on the small slice of the city they interact with daily -- the one left turn lane that always backs up or a certain set of poorly timed walk signals. Laura Adler writes:
"Only with simple, accessible simulation programs can citizens become active generators of their own urban visions, not just passive recipients of options laid out by government officials."
Existing urban planning software is either proprietary or hard to use. A/B Street strives to be highly accessible, by being a fun, engaging game. See here for more guiding principles.
Credits
Core team:
- Dustin Carlino (dabreegster@gmail.com)
- Yuwen Li (UX)
- Michael Kirk
Contact dabreegster@gmail.com or follow @CarlinoDustin for updates.
Owner
- Name: A/B Street
- Login: a-b-street
- Kind: organization
- Email: dabreegster@gmail.com
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Website: abstreet.org
- Twitter: CarlinoDustin
- Repositories: 14
- Profile: https://github.com/a-b-street
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
GitHub Events
Total
- Issues event: 16
- Watch event: 318
- Issue comment event: 29
- Push event: 8
- Pull request review comment event: 2
- Pull request review event: 4
- Pull request event: 8
- Fork event: 21
Last Year
- Issues event: 16
- Watch event: 318
- Issue comment event: 29
- Push event: 8
- Pull request review comment event: 2
- Pull request review event: 4
- Pull request event: 8
- Fork event: 21
Committers
Last synced: 6 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Dustin Carlino | d****r@g****m | 7,861 |
| Michael Kirk | m****e@e****e | 304 |
| Andy Smith | a****h@u****m | 121 |
| Marcel Dejean | m****l@d****c | 19 |
| Dustin Carlino | d****o@g****m | 18 |
| Mateusz Konieczny | m****z@g****m | 11 |
| Gedalia Kott | g****t@g****m | 7 |
| Bruce | b****7@y****m | 6 |
| Javed Nissar | 1****s@u****m | 6 |
| Trevor Nederlof | t****f@h****m | 6 |
| Vinzent Steinberg | V****g@g****m | 6 |
| Chris Petkau | c****u@k****m | 4 |
| Abdul Rauf | a****u@g****m | 3 |
| NoSuchThingAsRandom | s****6@g****m | 2 |
| Marcel Dejean | m****9@c****u | 2 |
| Orestis | o****s@h****h | 2 |
| Robin Lovelace | r****x@g****m | 2 |
| Rémi Lauzier | r****r@p****m | 2 |
| Ilias | i****t@g****m | 2 |
| Andrew Wei | 3****i@u****m | 1 |
| AnonimAnonim2245 | p****1@g****m | 1 |
| Antelope | 3****e@u****m | 1 |
| Arzhel Younsi | a****i@w****g | 1 |
| Brian Lewis | k****r@c****u | 1 |
| Bruce | b****7@g****m | 1 |
| Christopher Schmidt | c****t@c****t | 1 |
| Dmitriy Serdyuk | s****y@g****m | 1 |
| Fabian Gonzalez | f****8@g****m | 1 |
| Gedalia Kott | g****t@u****m | 1 |
| Grégoire Lodi | g****b@l****e | 1 |
| and 26 more... | ||
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 565
- Total pull requests: 564
- Average time to close issues: 3 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 6 days
- Total issue authors: 155
- Total pull request authors: 56
- Average comments per issue: 3.98
- Average comments per pull request: 1.88
- Merged pull requests: 519
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 9
Past Year
- Issues: 7
- Pull requests: 8
- Average time to close issues: about 23 hours
- Average time to close pull requests: about 5 hours
- Issue authors: 7
- Pull request authors: 4
- Average comments per issue: 1.29
- Average comments per pull request: 0.63
- Merged pull requests: 5
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- dabreegster (192)
- matkoniecz (76)
- belt-drive (23)
- yurivict (17)
- Robinlovelace (16)
- jvolker (10)
- michaelkirk (8)
- andrewphilipsmith (7)
- sarahlabianca (7)
- andrewguertin (5)
- xoob (5)
- Anaphory (4)
- mdejean (4)
- XioNoX (4)
- XaranDeBruregor (4)
Pull Request Authors
- dabreegster (282)
- michaelkirk (157)
- matkoniecz (11)
- dependabot[bot] (9)
- BruceBrown (7)
- RestitutorOrbis (6)
- tnederlof (6)
- mdejean (6)
- AnonimAnonim2245 (4)
- vks (4)
- gedkott (4)
- jinzhong2 (4)
- Robinlovelace (4)
- jamesneb (3)
- amyanger (2)
Top Labels
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Packages
- Total packages: 1
- Total downloads: unknown
- Total dependent packages: 0
- Total dependent repositories: 0
- Total versions: 161
proxy.golang.org: github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
- Homepage: https://github.com/a-b-street/abstreet
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/a-b-street/abstreet#section-documentation
- License: Apache-2.0
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Latest release: v0.3.49
published about 2 years ago
Rankings
Dependencies
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