Potential Projects: LA Department of Transportation

### Dependency
None

### Overview
This issue covers potential projects brainstormed during LA DoT meeting 2020-08-06

### Action Items
- [ ] Review potential project below to see what might be appropriate for our community
- [ ] Talk with Hack for LA rep to schedule appropriate conversation with LA DoT rep

### Resources/Instructions

### Meeting Notes

#### DoT Ongoing Work
* Code the Curb Initiative
* Projects focused on creating digital curb inventory for feeding various initiatives related to curb space usage
* Pilot projects in process involving ingestion and tagging of image data (detection of edge lines a major focus)
* Lat/Long tagged data related to curbside features as a byproduct of feature installation procedures
* Old data that requires conversion for current use

#### Collaborative project proposals
* Housing overcrowding and income statistics for areas and their correlation with 311 requests
* Scoring project proposals based on network-based features
* Data from CicLAvia, Strava, Bike activity
* Focus on infrastructure-based projects (bike/pedestrian/transit)
* Calculating resistance to biking/pedestrian behaviors using network features
* Identifying choke-points that produce 'friction' for commuters and identifying the best interventions to increase flow
* Intersection features available (crosswalk, lanes of traffic, etc)
* Mapping social distancing ability with respect to sidewalk/corridor size
* Similar to https://www.sidewalkwidths.nyc/

#### Collaboration naming conventions
* Mobility Gap Solutions