Project Meeting 2021.02.11

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

• Bench contract expected to be executed soon
• MOA comments still coming in, please get them in as soon as you can
• SANDAG cross border model PR coming soon
  • Add support for tour mode choice getting trip mode choice logsum conditional on if a tour mode is choosen
  • Requires some additional plumbing and solving of the trip mode choice for each tour mode for inbound and outbound (so 10 times if 5 tour modes)
  • Tour mode in this model is really a border crossing mode model
  • We don't want to change the core for this approach
  • But we could make this a new different submodel / an isolated addition and then accept it into asim
  • So don't change tour_mode_choice, but instead create a new model like border_crossing_mode (or tour_mode_conditional_on_trip_mode)
  • And make it optional with a switch / setting
  • Need to review runtimes as well
  • Keep the PMC posted on progress
• For PRs, should we do internal ones in addition to external ones like Clint does?
• Yes, probably. We need to do a better job scaling our support / management as the project has a lot more going on now than before

5b Task 2 Strategic Planning (milestone)

• Joe partially reviewed V3 and said it looks good enough to close out the Phase 5b work
• We can always make some revisions moving forward...it is a living doc
• Add link to it on Administration

6a Task 2 Complete Estimation Mode (milestone)

• Newman working on notebooks
• A couple little fixes to EDBs in the queue for Doyle

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

• SEMCOG team running it for a large population and ran into a CDAP issue for large households
• This has been fixed and committed to the telecommute branch
• Plan to circle back with the PMC once we have results to share
• Should telecommute works be added to the core example, example_mtc, or become a new example, example_telecommute?
• This is a similar question we faced with the ARC extensions
• Our test system will need to cover this
• We're likely headed to a features matrix: rows for features (two zone, telecommute) and columns for examples (mtc, arc) that exercise the features

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

• Joel/team to review data

6a Task 5 Performance Enhancements (milestone)

• Doyle wrapping up taz/maz location sampling and will share with PSRC
• PSRC example will be added to our test system + PSRC testing required some small data fixes
• 100k HH total model runtimes went from 1278 min to 172 min single process so 8-10x faster
• Multi-region testing
  • We'll update the multiple regions runtimes by submodel file and post on Google --> here
  • We should post these model setups on AWS so everyone can reuse them again and again
  • AMPO could have the AWS account or a contractor that expenses the cost to AMPO
  • Having REAL EXAMPLES for testing is so important!
  • These multi region examples and test results can speak to what next to work on
• Representative logsums next

6a Task 6 Prototype multiple models test system (milestone)

• We're getting the PSRC example in order to add to our test system
• This work overlaps with task 5 (for psrc) and task 8 (for arc)

6a Task 7 Input checking and error handling and pipeline improvements (milestone)

• Not yet started, but PSRC data fixing script starts to get at this

6a Task 8 Maintenance and Support (milestone)

• Let's have Clint share an ARC model update on an upcoming call
• Let's keep working on improved collaboration strategies across all the efforts going on