# distance for nonNetworkWalk from coordinate to link

## Description

A typical matsim execution path is that an activity has a coordinate (either by itself, or via its facility), and from there needs to "bushwhack" (= non network walk) to a link.
We need some decision about the walk distance in that case. Should it be

1. the shortest distance (= orthogonal projection, or distance to node if outside range of orthogonal projection), or

2. the distance to the actual pickup point (end of link for qsim)
?
Right now, my intuition would be that the first is better, for the following reasons:

• Can be computed in router, independent from implementation in mobsim.

• Is physically more plausible. Why should we assume that someone walks 100km only because the link is very long, and the coordinate happens to be near its upstream end?
A disadvantage is that it might look visually weird, since these would show as very fast bushwhacking walks to the qsim pickup point:

The shortest distance to the link is short, resulting in a short bushwhacking time, but the visualization would move the agent in the same time and thus with much higher speed from (coord) to (pickup).

Our usual counter-argument would be, I suppose, that we do not really resolve beyond the link level, and if someone needs this look better, she needs to make shorter links.

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Joschka Bischoff

Kai Nagel

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