openENTRANCE/openentrance

Validation fails on directional data

danielhuppmann opened this issue · 4 comments

The current validate()function fails on any data using directional region definitions (i.e., Region A>Region B).

Reported by @sandrinecharousset

Follow-up question: do we want to enforce that directional data can only be at the same hierarchical level. E.g., NUTS3 can only go to another NUTS3 region? Or is any combination of region-hierarchy levels valid?

Although any restriction might reduce the flexibility of the modeler, I am in favor of restriction between equal hierarchical levels.

In plan4eu we need transmission lines between regions of different levels. This is needed because we model eg France and Germany at level of ehighway clusters and other countries at country level except some that are aggregated in bigger regions
We have then lines between eg france|cluster 14 and Spain...

understood @sandrinecharousset - so let's go with the any-combination-works approach. This will make selection in the Scenario Explorer a bit cumbersome because of thousands of possible combination, but we'll see if we can implement something to simplify this...