spopt: Spatial Optimization

Regionalization, facility location, and transportation-oriented modeling

spopt is an open-source Python library for solving optimization problems with spatial data. Originating from the region module in PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library), it is under active development for the inclusion of newly proposed models and methods for regionalization, facility location, and transportation-oriented solutions.

Development

spopt development is hosted on github.

Citing spopt

If you use PySAL-spopt in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following:

@misc{spopt2021,
  author    = {Feng, Xin, and
               Gaboardi, James D. and
               Knaap, Elijah and
               Rey, Sergio J. and
               Wei, Ran},
  month     = {jan},
  year      = {2021},
  title     = {pysal/spopt},
  url       = {https://github.com/pysal/spopt},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.4444156},
  keywords  = {python,regionalization,spatial-optimization,location-modeling}
}

@article{spopt2022,
  author    = {Feng, Xin and Barcelos, Germano and Gaboardi, James D. and
              Knaap, Elijah and Wei, Ran and Wolf, Levi J. and
              Zhao, Qunshan and Rey, Sergio J.},
  year      = {2022},
  title     = {spopt: a python package for solving spatial optimization problems in PySAL},
  journal   = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  volume    = {7},
  number    = {74},
  pages     = {3330},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03330},
  doi       = {10.21105/joss.03330},
}

Funding

This project is/was partially funded through:

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National Science Foundation Award #1831615: RIDIR: Scalable Geospatial Analytics for Social Science Research

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