Copy capacity solution
bettinardi opened this issue · 1 comments
The user of the ABM is going to want a quick way to visualize the V/C ratio for a given ABM period. The SOABM's vdf process needs to put an effective capacity solution into the capprt field so that Visum's standard v/c outputs/fields can be used by the ABM operator. If we don't do this, the ABM will not be as useful as it should be, and the user guide will have to have additional warnings on not trusting any information regarding to or related to the capacity field, capprt. It is much more desirable to just have the capprt populated with an effective capacity solution for each link as the vdf process runs and calculates the different elements of the vdf.
If possible, when we are determining / calculating the correct capacity to use, it would be greatly helpful / beneficial to write a copy of that capacity out to the same csv that's going to hold the volume information, see issue #50. The reason is that I am going to want to look for extremely high v/c. I'm realizing that it's going to be difficult to do that over multiple periods, so I'm going to want to build a process that reports on v/c by period. Perhaps at some point that visual can make it into the html, but it doesn't need to at this phase.
Thinking out loud, what would be nice is to add a simple add-on process to the html. Where the R script html process calls a side script, the job of that script is just to be a list of other R scripts to source. ODOT could then run diagnostics checks that don't need to be in the formal html, but would be good checks to have access to each time. Those scripts could be written and then listed in a directory, where all scripts get sourced through, and create plots and output different than the html. That would allow for easy tests and concepts to be added.