Routing through parking lots
I brought up this matter in some other forum, but I think it would be more appropriate to discuss it here.
In so many cases, parking lot roads (PLRs) might be a good way to route through. There are so many PLRs that are critical for parking just in limited times of the week, while being a waste of space in the rest of time, unless they can be used to route some traffic. There are PLRs that can make great shortcuts for drivers. Consider a school parking lot in a critical location. In normal circumstances, such lot may be busy one hour at start of school days and another at end of such day. In rest of school days and on school-off days, its roads are so empty that drivers may be tempted to use them as shortcuts. But the list of examples is so long.
Somebody told me that Waze can route PLRs under certain conditions. Is this true? If not, I like to get some feedback on adding routability option to PLRs. By enable a "routable" option for a PLR, it can used by Waze for routing, depending on traffic info. In cases where PLRs cannot or unsuitable to be used for routing, such option should be unchecked, which can be the default value for all PLRs.
What do you think?!!
In so many cases, parking lot roads (PLRs) might be a good way to route through. There are so many PLRs that are critical for parking just in limited times of the week, while being a waste of space in the rest of time, unless they can be used to route some traffic. There are PLRs that can make great shortcuts for drivers. Consider a school parking lot in a critical location. In normal circumstances, such lot may be busy one hour at start of school days and another at end of such day. In rest of school days and on school-off days, its roads are so empty that drivers may be tempted to use them as shortcuts. But the list of examples is so long.
Somebody told me that Waze can route PLRs under certain conditions. Is this true? If not, I like to get some feedback on adding routability option to PLRs. By enable a "routable" option for a PLR, it can used by Waze for routing, depending on traffic info. In cases where PLRs cannot or unsuitable to be used for routing, such option should be unchecked, which can be the default value for all PLRs.
What do you think?!!
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