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Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

By: Geoff Boeing

This study examines street network orientation, configuration, and entropy in 100 cities around the world using OpenStreetMap data and OSMnx.

See full paper: https://appliednetsci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s41109-019-0189-1

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[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every road going south is also a road going north. Note all of them have rotational symmetry

[–] StudioLE@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It'd be interesting to know how one way streets are counted

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Just read the study? They modelled street networks as undirected graphs, one-way streets are treated like all other streets, as their directionality isn't considered.

Street networks are typically modeled as graphs where nodes represent intersections and dead-ends, and edges represent the street segments that link them (Barthelemy and Flammini 2008; Cardillo et al. 2006; Lin and Ban 2013; Marshall et al. 2018; Porta et al. 2006). These edges are spatially embedded and have both a length and a compass bearing (Barthelemy 2011). The present study models urban street networks as undirected nonplanar multigraphs with possible self-loops. While directed graphs most-faithfully represent constraints on flows (such as vehicular traffic on a one-way street), undirected graphs better model urban form by corresponding 1:1 with street segments (i.e., the linear sides of city blocks). While many street networks are approximately planar (having relatively few overpasses or underpasses), nonplanar graphs provide more accurate models by accommodating those bridges and tunnels that do often exist (Boeing 2018c; Eppstein and Goodrich 2008).

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Even if they were counted accurately, usually there is another one way road nearby and which is going the other direction. So I doubt it would have a meaningful impact in the visualization.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

One way streets exist!