Project Meeting 2024.10.24

Agenda

• General Admin - Administrative transition
• General Admin - Phase 10A tasks
• Announcement: A bug fix release v1.3.2 has been made, to address problem with setting the location of the sharrow cache directory.

General Admin

• Admin - Payments
  • Still waiting payment from ARC, CMAP, Translink, and MetCouncil
    • MetCouncil thinks payment was made
    • ARC payment is in progress and will be made tomorrow to AMPO
• Admin Transition/Home
  • AMPO and Consortium discussed level of effort of various admin tasks.
    • Narrowed it down to a window/range of that level of effort
  • Kanti will meet with AMPO tomorrow to discuss further
  • University option is still on the table, but there are reservations about that idea
  • Need to make a decision very soon on what we pursue
  • If we stay at AMPO, it would be good to have a firm commitment on how many years AMPO will commit to the agreement
  • Independent option
    • Need to establish ourselves as non-profit, take a few months
    • Feb 2025 would have organization set-up and then need to do a lot of Admin stuff
      • Contract w firm that works w/ non-profits to do Admin stuff: Bank account, accounting, legal council
    • Spring 2025 - vendor/consultant contracts, MOA & Funding agreements
    • June 2025 - final transfer from AMPO (transfer funds), new website
  • Other options still on table as well
    • Not ideal: AASHTO, NARC, Federal pooled fund, Volpe, Rand (not interested), decentralized, program manager
    • TTI - very enthusiastic, want to integrate their own work w/ ActivitySim, but there may be challenges working with institutions including autonomy
      • Mat Hardy at ITE, said there may be an opportunity to partner with ITE and TTI on ActivitySim
    • Zephyr - less autonomy than stand-alone non-profit option; easier to ramp-up
      • No one has criticized Zephyr as being an option
  • Really important to get consensus on path forward
• Phase 10 Scoping
  • Agencies should take look at Phase 10 Priority list and way in on priorities for Phase 10, see Project List

Next Meeting

• Tuesday - focus on Phase 10A Scoping
• Thursday - continue discussion of Administrative home