Project Meeting 2020.04.17

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

• Discussed draft Phase 6 scoping Google doc here
  • Comments due by COB
  • Will have 2 hour discussion next week, including initial ranking
  • @Ben and @Joe to organize spreadsheet for discussion
• ITM postponed and therefore the ActivitySim tutorial as well
  • Maybe we host an ActivitySim open house webinar instead?
  • @Guy to keep us posted on ITM happenings
• Fixed a couple small issues for SEMCOG so a PR is coming soon
  • very large input household ids and a person id sorting issue
• PopulationSim Jupyter notebook validation script PR coming soon

Task 2 Strategic Planning (milestone)

• Discussed strategic development and contribution plan outline here
  • Comments due COB
  • Add more on principals guiding the project
  • Drop contracting stuff

Task 4 I/O Improvements (milestone)

• No updates

Task 5 TNCs (milestone)

• No updates

Task 6 Model Developer Tutorial (milestone)

• Working on Jupyter notebook recipes

Task 9 Estimation Mode (milestone)

• Currently working on revisions to additional submodels
  • joint tour submodels
• Working on larch integration
  • Working with package author, Jeff Newman
  • Identified some improvements for integration
    • Factor out compound coefficients in tour mode choice
    • Put nesting coefficients in the coefficients file
  • Will have fully automated model re-estimation recipes in our recipe book
    • Auto ownership and destination choice drafted
    • Working on nested mode choice