Potential Projects: LA Department of Transportation

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Dependency

• [x] Revisit when we are looking for new projects to work on.
• [ ] The board is all cleaned up and the wiki is updated

Overview

This issue covers potential projects brainstormed during LA DoT meeting 2020-08-06

Action Items

• [ ] Review potential project below to see what might be appropriate for our community
• [ ] Talk with Hack for LA rep to schedule appropriate conversation with LA DoT rep

Resources/Instructions

Meeting Notes

DoT Ongoing Work

• Code the Curb Initiative
  • Projects focused on creating digital curb inventory for feeding various initiatives related to curb space usage
  • Pilot projects in process involving ingestion and tagging of image data (detection of edge lines a major focus)
  • Lat/Long tagged data related to curbside features as a byproduct of feature installation procedures
  • Old data that requires conversion for current use

Collaborative project proposals

• Housing overcrowding and income statistics for areas and their correlation with 311 requests
• Scoring project proposals based on network-based features
  • Data from CicLAvia, Strava, Bike activity
  • Focus on infrastructure-based projects (bike/pedestrian/transit)
• Calculating resistance to biking/pedestrian behaviors using network features
  • Identifying choke-points that produce 'friction' for commuters and identifying the best interventions to increase flow
  • Intersection features available (crosswalk, lanes of traffic, etc)
• Mapping social distancing ability with respect to sidewalk/corridor size
  • Similar to https://www.sidewalkwidths.nyc/

Collaboration naming conventions

• Mobility Gap Solutions

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Created folder and readme stub

https://github.com/hackforla/data-science/tree/master/mgs