Project Meeting 2024.11.26

Agenda

• Estimation Enhancements

Technical

• Estimation Enhancements
  • Interaction Data Frame Outputs
    • Parquet format is showing a lot of run time savings
      • Can run MTC model within 38 minutes in estimation mode and 3.3 GB (compared to 100 GB in old csv format)
    • Running with SANDAG model now, but also showing significant decreases in size and run times
  • Larch updates
    • Tested on auto ownership model
      • 9/10 of notebook is exactly the same
      • Adds code to load parquet files; user needs to do nothing different
      • Added variable names for consistency with ActivitySim
      • Compares side by side with what has changed between specification runs and can do statistical tests to calculate significant differences