Hi all, I could really use your thoughts on this, since I can’t get it off my mind. Some ideas, inputs or similar cases could be very helpfull
I’m trying to figure out a way to calculate people's movement. It’s more for graphic purpose than for something that needs to be accurate.
All of those tools for visualizing traffic movement are good, but for using those I would need a traffic counter, which I don’t have.
What I do have is:
- the number of people day and night in 100 x 100 meter cells
- This gives me where people sleep and where they work.
- Street network
I have this picture in my mind, creating a people DEM where the highest numbers of people is the mountaintop a stream of water follows the streetnetwork down to where the jobs are. People can take different ways and go to different places randomly, but as soon as an area is flooded, other places where there are jobs will be filled up.
I’ve seen examples what I’m trying to achieve of this in shopping malls, if a disaster happens, where do people go for the exit? This technology uses AI. So I’m thinking that maybe AI is needed. It’s also something we see in game engines for AI traffic.
But here we are talking about a very large area, and I had the idea that this could maybe be done with some smart thinking of raster analysis
