Work in Progress

Inputs Data

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CONTENTS

1. Base Year Geodatabase
2. Base Year Zoning

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Base Year GeoDatabase

Bay Area UrbanSim requires a representation of the region’s parcels, buildings, households, and employees for the base simulation year (2010). This data is pulled together, integrated, and clean up using a series of scripts originally writen by UDST

Computing Environment, Setup, and Configuration for Base Year GeoDatabase Cleaning

Running the Script

set of steps

The steps below follow the code residing here

Load and Clean County Parcel Files

County-Specific Cleaning

Merge the County Parcels into a Regional Parcel Database

Merge Parcels for Condos, Common Areas, and Stacked Duplicate Parcels

Fill In Missing Values Using xxxx

Tag Parcels with zone_id

Tags parcels with TAZ (zone) ID using point-in-poly or closest when parcel falls outside the TAZ map.

Match Aggregate

TAZ as local control for both res and comm

Impute Prices

Allocate Demand Agents to Buuldings

allocate jobs from TAZ to building

Perform Quality Control Summaries

Export Integrated Parcels

The export_to_h5 script:

• maps development_type_id to building_type_id

• sets the h5 path

• stores the tables in the hdf5

• among other things

Base Year Zoning