Description: This work will help develop a piece of proof-of-concept software to use and develop the spopt Spatial Optimization library used in PySAL Python Spatial Analysis Library and show how it can be used in a real-world situation.

Funding: €4000

Expected start date: December 2022
Expected end date: June 2023

Project Team:

Dr Qunshan Zhao (Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, AGILE member);
Dr Nick Bearman (Geospatial Training Solutions & UCL);
Dr Huanfa Chen (UCL);
Dr Levi Wolf (Bristol);
Dr James D. Gaboardi (Human Geography, ORNL, USA)

Outputs

• Accepted paper (Developing capacitated p-median location-allocation model in the spopt library to allow UCL student teacher placements using public transport) in AGILE 2023.
• spopt tool development (pull request)
• Tutorial The Open Source Spatial Analytical tools with python at AGILE 2023.