The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel
Green Paths is a prototype of route planning software for finding exposure-optimised routes for active travel. It incorporates external data on environmental exposures, including traffic noise levels, air quality, and street-level greenery into the street and paths network produced by the OpenStreet...
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| description | Green Paths is a prototype of route planning software for finding exposure-optimised routes for active travel. It incorporates external data on environmental exposures, including traffic noise levels, air quality, and street-level greenery into the street and paths network produced by the OpenStreetMap project. Written in the Python programming language, the software applies a novel environmental impedance function in the least cost path routing to find exposure-optimised routes. Routes for externally defined origin-destination pairs can be queried via a RESTful API. The API returns alternative routes equipped with rich exposure data. The published version of the software has been applied in population level environmental exposure assessment and in an end-user-oriented web-based route planner application designed for use in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-284b8fc6e4a041b08612e597012579952023-11-23T09:15:20ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Open Research Software2049-96472023-10-01111101010.5334/jors.400349The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active TravelJoose Helle0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3774-9739Age Poom1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3592-7837Elias Willberg2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0159-0084Tuuli Toivonen3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6625-4922Digital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00014 HelsinkiDigital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00014 Helsinki, FI; Mobility Lab, Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 50114 TartuDigital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00014 HelsinkiDigital Geography Lab, Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, 00014 HelsinkiGreen Paths is a prototype of route planning software for finding exposure-optimised routes for active travel. It incorporates external data on environmental exposures, including traffic noise levels, air quality, and street-level greenery into the street and paths network produced by the OpenStreetMap project. Written in the Python programming language, the software applies a novel environmental impedance function in the least cost path routing to find exposure-optimised routes. Routes for externally defined origin-destination pairs can be queried via a RESTful API. The API returns alternative routes equipped with rich exposure data. The published version of the software has been applied in population level environmental exposure assessment and in an end-user-oriented web-based route planner application designed for use in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.https://account.openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-jors/article/view/400routingenvironmental exposureurban mobilitytravelwalkingcyclingair qualitytraffic noisestreetlevel greeneryspatial analysis |
| spellingShingle | Joose Helle Age Poom Elias Willberg Tuuli Toivonen The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel Journal of Open Research Software routing environmental exposure urban mobility travel walking cycling air quality traffic noise streetlevel greenery spatial analysis |
| title | The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel |
| title_full | The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel |
| title_fullStr | The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel |
| title_short | The Green Paths Route Planning Software for Exposure-Optimised Active Travel |
| title_sort | green paths route planning software for exposure optimised active travel |
| topic | routing environmental exposure urban mobility travel walking cycling air quality traffic noise streetlevel greenery spatial analysis |
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