Project Meeting 2021.02.04

5b/6a Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

• AMPO update
  • Welcome Caitlin Cook, AMPO technical programs director
  • AMPO starting back up the modeling working group
• Contracting topics
  • Any final feedback on the partner agreement or funding agreement send in this week
  • RSG needs to return the bench contract
• Academic cooperation
  • @Joe to reach out to Xuesong about his DTALite integration email
  • @Joe to reach out to Greg Macfarlane about his UTRAC research grant email
• Some potential PRs possibly coming soon from the SANDAG cross border model project:
  • make scheduling probability lookup model generic for trips and tours
  • ability to run trip mode choice within tour mode choice to get trip model choice logsums for inbound and outbound trips assuming a chosen tour mode
  • ActivitySim wants to support SANDAG's use of the platform for the cross border model
  • New functionality would be optional and needs to include a test example
  • We'll talk more about it on a technical call with Wu
  • Would be good to share materials ahead of time for review since its not a straightforward topic

5b Task 2 Strategic Planning (milestone)

• Next time discuss updated V3 of the plan

6a Task 2 Complete Estimation Mode (milestone)

• Newman working on notebooks
• I'm working on reconciling updates to develop

6a Task 3 Telecommute Model in Cooperation with SEMCOG (milestone)

• SEMCOG working on setting it up

6a Task 4 Transit Pass Ownership Model in Cooperation with SEMCOG (milestone)

• Bill and Shimon reviewed bay area data to inform model design
• OBS has fare medium and fare category but not subsidy
• CHTS has fare subsidy information
• TNC survey has questions related to commute benefits (provided by your employer)
• Clipper card registered users database could maybe tell us about percent of card holders that are seniors, kids, employer provided, etc.
• Clipper card data might not be very representative
• Clipper start program with a 50% discount for low-income is a new program
• Some research by Greg Erhardt showed some populations absent from the Clipper card data
• Our Consortium budget for this task is limited so we want to be mindful of the ask of Joel/SEMCOG
• @Shimon/Bill to summarize findings and follow-up with Joel
• DaySim's ability to assert/override fare subsidy should be included in the model design for policy testing and what-if type analysis
• The disconnect between what data we have and what we want from the model may be an issue

6a Task 5 Performance Enhancements (milestone)

• Doyle working on taz/maz location sampling

6a Task 8 Maintenance and Support (milestone)

• I reviewed the PRs and merged the multiprocessing revision to support populationmsim
• We discussed the trip number of participants PR and added a few good ideas to the discussion thread. The key is for the platform to be flexible and support needs - to have configurable options