README.md

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SPOT (Safe Path Optimisation Tool)

This is an application built on R, R shiny and Python to help the commuters and drivers by decreasing their chance of accidents. This app provides following features:

• Visualize the historic accidents through different maps, plots, and trends
• Find an optimal path between the user's current location (or entered source) and destination.
• User can give different weights to parameters like safety from accidents or length. The app will find the path which minimizes the following overall cost

Ctotal = αCaccident_risk + (1-α)Clengthx

where α is the weight given to safety from road accidents * Alerts user when he reaches close to an accident-prone zone

Installation

To install this make sure the 'devtools' package is installed. To install devtools

install.packages("devtools")

After successful installation, run following commands

library(devtools)
install_github("apxr/SPOT")

Before running the app, its recommended to see the help by running the command

?runSPOT

To run the app, type the command on R console

runSPOT()

See the document for more information (SPOT_Document.pdf)

https://github.com/apxr/SPOT/blob/master/SPOT_document.pdf

apurvpriyam/SPOT documentation built on Sept. 10, 2020, 3:20 a.m.