SCOUT: An Open-Access Scenario-Oriented Urban Toolkit for Decision Support

SCOUT is a decision-support toolkit shaped by requirements from experts across multiple urban domains that operationalizes a decision-making framework through a dataflow model for combining urban data and models and a scenario-oriented visualization grammar that treats decision alternatives and outcomes as first-class objects.

Access the Toolkit Online

Go to: https://arcade.evl.uic.edu/scout/

Running Locally with Docker

Follow the steps below to set up and run the project locally.

1. Install Docker

• Download and install Docker Desktop:
  • https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop
• Verify installation:

docker --version
docker-compose --version

2. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/urban-toolkit/scout.git
cd scout

3. Build the Containers

docker-compose --file docker-compose.dev.yml build --no-cache

• Builds all services defined in docker-compose.dev.yml
• --no-cache ensures a fresh build without using cached layers

4. Start the Containers

docker-compose --file docker-compose.dev.yml up --remove-orphans

• Starts all services
• --remove-orphans removes containers not defined in the compose file

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To learn how to use SCOUT, refer to the documentation.