Project Meeting 2017.01.10

Task 1 Project Management

• Drafted Phase 3 scope of work for discussion
• Experimented with multiprocessing for scoping

Task 10 Full Model Run

• Updated Getting Started Guide based on comments from Elizabeth
• Posted updated package on PyPi

Phase 3 Scoping Discussion

• We reviewed Phase 2 and everyone agreed that it went really well
• @Ken and @Lisa will be taking over for MTC and @Stefan for PSRC
• There is significant interest from folks outside the project - other MPOs, private firms, other consultants, etc.
• As we discussed the scope and work plan for the next couple of years, a few themes emerged:
  • We want ActivitySim to be more ready-to-go for someone new to the project
  • We want to complete the remaining sub-models so we can say we have a working ABM platform
  • We need to improve the usability, organization, data pipelining design to make it easier for others to contribute
  • Contributions from others is great, but we need to manage it
  • Contributions from others may distract us from the goal of building an ABM platform for the AMPO partners first
  • Completing the remaining sub-models is more important than adding multi-threading
  • We're pretty confident multi-processing will work for how we are proceeding with chunking and vectorization so as long as we keep this in mind, we can drop this task this year
  • We want to come back to TRB in 2018 with something that we can better share with others
  • We agreed to try to double development and funding in 2017 to speed up the project
• @Ben to revise Phase 3 scope of work and setup a meeting to discuss in a couple weeks