Civic Data Playground

Civic data playgrounds turn open municipal datasets — road networks, signal timing, population counts — into interactive agent-based models that let residents and planners explore how a city actually behaves. This simulation models a small road grid where every vehicle is an independent agent reacting to a synchronized traffic signal: population sets how many agents share the grid, light cycle sets how long each axis holds right of way, and road budget scales every agent's free-flow speed the way real infrastructure spending would. Watch average speed, congestion and completed trips respond as you change each input, the same feedback loop a real civic data tool gives a city council weighing a budget or signal-timing decision.