eclipse-sumo
Improve pedestrian freedom on roads shared with vehicles
if the road or path is usable by the vehicle in both directions, it will consist of two edges. Persons can use both edges for both directions in principle but they cannot currently move between adjacent forward and backward edges along their route. Instead their route confines them to one edge and thereby reduces potential flow and limits freedom to evade vehicles.
Solution: the striping model should identify such edges and merge them into a virtual lane with the combined width of the available walking space and all persons of either lane on it.
The same solution may also enable use of multiple sidewalk lanes running next to each other (i.e. to simulate a multi-lane bike path shared with pedestrians).
It may even enable arbitrary road crossing (though this might still require route adaptation at some point).
