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1. krautsauer · 1790648860 · focus · HN ↗

   This is not quite a spherical cow and there is something to be learned here, but really, I'd like to see this with

   - non-square-grid cities with highways, public transport, …

   - realistic synthetic populations doing non-random destination selection (nobody randomly goes to a supermarket at the other end of a city, after all)

   - actual traffic simulation with jams (or at least using real traffic data)

   and then evaluate both the energy use and travel times. That being said, doing this kind of thing, e.g. with ActivitySim, even for one real city, is quite a bit of work.

   1. twelvechairs · 1790666830 · focus · HN ↗

      The reality is a lot depends on your economy. A manufacturing and port city will necessarily be very different urban form to a white collar office job city or a beach/lifestyle city full of remote workers. An egalitarian city will be very different from a socially segregated city. Etc.

      Cities are also never perfectly efficient because they are always evolving in function and use

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