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Welcome to the mfhrn_programs wiki!

Setup

1. Ensure you have ArcGIS installed on your computer. (I have a Basic license.)
2. Clone this repository onto your computer, in your local disk. Do NOT clone it into a network drive as this will run very slowly!
3. Ensure you have access to a clean, up-to-date copy of the MHN.
4. Create a folder in the repository called input. See Input for further directions.

I personally use the environment arcgispro-py3 which comes installed with ArcGIS.

Usage

The concept of this repository is that it reimagines mhn_programs (the original repository for processing the MHN) in a modern way which also acknowledges its role in freight and travel modeling. Essentially, this repository is designed to be the first step in a process which could later involve the MFN and MRN in later steps. See Paths for a visual of this logic.

File Structure

images
input (not provided!) 
scripts 
`-- 1_MHN 
`-- 2_MFN_Freight 
`-- 3_MRN_Travel
templates

• images - this folder contains images which are shown in the README.md and the wiki.
• input - this folder contains data which the programs use as input. You MUST add a clean, up-to-date copy of the MHN into the input folder, and name it "MHN.gdb."
• scripts - this folder contains scripts for running the programs.
  • 1_MHN - this contains scripts for processing the MHN.
  • 2_MFN_Freight - this contains scripts which is specific to freight modeling and involves information from the MFN.
  • 3_MRN_Travel - this contains scripts which is specific to travel modeling and involves information from the MRN.
• templates - contains template input files.

After running the scripts, a folder called "output" will be created automatically. This will contain the output for the scripts.

No matter what you're doing, the MHN will be needed, and it's enough to run all the scripts in 1_MHN.

My goal is to make things so simple that unless you're planning on modifying my scripts, you don't need to know anything at all about them to use them.