Adaptive continuity-preserving simplification of street networks
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| author | Fleischmann, Martin Vybornova, Anastassia Gaboardi, James D. Brázdová, Anna Dančejová, Daniela |
| author_facet | Fleischmann, Martin Vybornova, Anastassia Gaboardi, James D. Brázdová, Anna Dančejová, Daniela |
| contents | Street network data is widely used to study human-based activities and urban structure. Often, these data are geared towards transportation applications, which require highly granular, directed graphs that capture the complex relationships of potential traffic patterns. While this level of network detail is critical for certain fine-grained mobility models, it represents a hindrance for studies concerned with the morphology of the street network. For the latter case, street network simplification - the process of converting a highly granular input network into its most simple morphological form - is a necessary, but highly tedious preprocessing step, especially when conducted manually. In this manuscript, we develop and present a novel adaptive algorithm for simplifying street networks that is both fully automated and able to mimic results obtained through a manual simplification routine. The algorithm - available in the neatnet Python package - outperforms current state-of-the-art procedures when comparing those methods to manually, human-simplified data, while preserving network continuity. |
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| spellingShingle | Adaptive continuity-preserving simplification of street networks Fleischmann, Martin Vybornova, Anastassia Gaboardi, James D. Brázdová, Anna Dančejová, Daniela Computers and Society Street network data is widely used to study human-based activities and urban structure. Often, these data are geared towards transportation applications, which require highly granular, directed graphs that capture the complex relationships of potential traffic patterns. While this level of network detail is critical for certain fine-grained mobility models, it represents a hindrance for studies concerned with the morphology of the street network. For the latter case, street network simplification - the process of converting a highly granular input network into its most simple morphological form - is a necessary, but highly tedious preprocessing step, especially when conducted manually. In this manuscript, we develop and present a novel adaptive algorithm for simplifying street networks that is both fully automated and able to mimic results obtained through a manual simplification routine. The algorithm - available in the neatnet Python package - outperforms current state-of-the-art procedures when comparing those methods to manually, human-simplified data, while preserving network continuity. |
| title | Adaptive continuity-preserving simplification of street networks |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16198 |