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The “11th International Conference on GIScience” 2021 started!  Our full paper related to MeinGrün project and openrouteservice will be presented this Tuesday 13:30 CET in Session 3 “Mobility”:

13:30-13:45: Christina Ludwig, Sven Lautenbach, Eva-Marie Schömann and Alexander Zipf. Comparison of simulated fast and green routes for cyclists and pedestrians.

Routes with a high share of greenery are attractive for cyclist and pedestrians. We analyze how strongly such green routes differ from the respective fast routes using the openrouteservice. Greenness of streets was estimated based on OpenStreetMap data in combination with Sentinel-II imagery, 3d laser scan data and administrative information on trees on public ground.
We assess the effect both at the level of the individual route and at the urban level for two German cities: Dresden and Heidelberg.
For individual routes, we study how strongly green routes differ from the respective fast routes. In addition, we identify parts of the road network which represent important green corridors as well as unattractive parts which can or cannot be avoided at the cost of reasonable detours. In both cities, our results show the importance of urban green spaces for the provision of attractive green routes and provide new insights for urban planning by identifying unvegetated bottlenecks in the street network for which no green alternatives exist at this point.

Ludwig, C.; S. Lautenbach, W.-M. Schömann & A. Zipf (2021): Comparison of simulated fast and green routes for cyclists and pedestrians. 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2021). K. Janowicz & J. Verstegen (eds.); pp. 3:1–3:15. DOI:10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2021.II.3

Further related news http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/tag/meingrun/

The meinGrün app https://meingruen.org/
Openrouteservice serves the general public since 2008.

A new follow-up project (HEAL) deals with heat-stress avoiding shady routing.

Related work

• Hecht, R., Artmann, M., Brzoska, P., Burghardt, D., Cakir, S., Dunkel, A., Gröbe, M., Gugulica, M., Krellenberg, K., Kreutzarek, N., Lautenbach, S., Ludwig, C., Lümkemann, D., Meinel, G., Schorcht, M., Sonnenbichler, A., Stanley, C., Tenikl, J., Wurm, M., and Zipf, A.: A WEB APP TO GENERATE AND DISSEMINATE NEW KNOWLEDGE ON URBAN GREEN SPACE QUALITIES AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., VIII-4/W1-2021, 65–72. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-VIII-4-W1-2021-65-2021, 2021.
• Ludwig C, Hecht R, Lautenbach S, Schorcht M, Zipf A. (2021): Mapping Public Urban Green Spaces Based on OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 Imagery Using Belief Functions. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2021; 10(4):251. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10040251
• Ludwig, C, Fendrich, S, Zipf, A. Regional variations of context‐based association rules in OpenStreetMap. Transactions in GIS. 2020; 00: 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12694
• H. Tost, M. Reichert, U. Braun, I. Reinhard, R. Peters, S. Lautenbach, A. Hoell, E. Schwarz, U. Ebner-Priemer, A. Zipf, and A. Meyer-Lindenberg (2019): Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefits of real-life urban green space exposure. Nature Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0451-y
• Neis, P. & Zipf, A (2008): OpenRouteService.org is three times “Open”: Combining OpenSource, OpenLS and OpenStreetMap. GIS Research UK (GISRUK 08). Manchester.
• Ludwig, C.; Zipf, A. (2019): Exploring regional differences in the representation of urban green spaces in OpenStreetMap. Proceedings of the GeoCultGIS - Geographic and Cultural Aspects of Geo-Information: Issues and Solutions, Limassol (Cyprus)
• Novack, T.; Wang, Z.; Zipf, A. (2018): A System for Generating Customized Pleasant Pedestrian Routes Based on OpenStreetMap Data. Sensors 2018, 18, 3794.
• Ludwig, C., S. Fendrich, T. Novack, S. Marx, A. Oleś, S. Lautenbach, A. Zipf (2020): Optimal ans Ziel: Routing-Dienste auf Basis nutzergenerierter Geodaten – Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze für globale Datensätze, In: Zagl, Loidl (Hrsg.): Geo-IT in Mobilität und Verkehr, Geoinformatik als Grundlage für moderne Verkehrsplanung und Mobilitätsmanagement. VDE Wichmann Verlag. S. 89-106. ISBN 978-3-87907-682-6, E-Book: ISBN 978-3-87907-683-3
• Wang, Z.; T. Novack, Y. Yan and A. Zipf (2020): Quiet Route Planning for Pedestrians in Traffic Noise Polluted Environments. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3004660.
• Goetz, M. & Zipf, A. (2013): The Evolution of Geo-Crowdsourcing: Bringing Volunteered Geographic Information to the Third Dimension. In: Sui, D.Z., Elwood, S. & Goodchild, M.F. (eds.): Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice. Berlin: Springer. 2013, XII, 396 pp. 139-159.
• Goetz, M. & Zipf, A. (2012): OpenStreetMap in 3D – Detailed Insights on the Current Situation in Germany. AGILE 2012. Avignon, France.

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