North American High Speed Rail - Gravity Model Analysis

Author Rohan Dawar

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In this project I analyze the viability of North American High Speed Rail Routes using a Gravity Model.

The Gravity between two cities (metro areas) is the product of their populations divided by the distance between them squared.

Check out my blog post on this project!

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Getting Started

1. Open High_Speed_Rail_in_North_America_Gravity_Model.ipynb (7.59 MB) in a Jupyter Notebook environment (Google Colab recommended).
2. Upload the shapefiles from the World Continentsfolder.
3. Run the notebook.

Built With:

• Pandas
• Plotly Express
• Folium

For Gif Generation:

• Pygifsicle
• Pillow

License

The software and output models in this project are licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details