Road map

Note

This is the original road map from 2014. Take a look at the open and closed GitHub issues for up-to-date information about work in progress.

Network structure metrics are unlikely to be added to Pandana; consider using the OSMnx library instead.

As has been shown, the main use case for Pandana is to expose the functionality of an underlying C++ library using a simple Python API, in a sense getting the best characteristics of both languages. It’s worth noting that there is additional functionality already implemented in the C++ library which has not been exposed, tested, and documented at this time, but would require moderate effort to do so and which will certainly be done in the future. This functionality includes:

• Batch (multi-threaded) routing between a large number of pairs of nodes in the network

• Additional OpenStreetMap, ESRI ShapeFile and Geodatabase importing

• Returning a DataFrame of all source-destination nodes within a certain distance (and including the distance)

• Design variables of the network, including 4-way street intersections, connectivity with the larger network, street length within a radius, average street width, and others

• Diversity variables which combine other variables using “mixture” measures like entropy, e.g. jobs/housing balance

• Centrality measures (measures which show bottlenecks in the network)

• Sampling nodes within a distance range (generally of use for urban modelling)

• Weighted combinations of multiple attributes, which are used to compute logsums in destination choice models.

Please let us know if any of these items are high priority for you and we will do our best to increase their standing in the task queue.