Project Meeting 2020.05.22 - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

  • Discussed Phase 6 scoping and ranking here
    • Discussed organizing plan around versions and the need to really build a solid version 1
    • We want our first users to have a pain free experience
    • Group design tasks into one with a focus on version 2 and to reduce level of effort
    • Design tasks will include delivery of a scope/cost
    • Share Joel's updates to Bill's feature write-up
    • Add addressing GitHub issues such as multiple input skims to maintenance and support
    • Each agency allocate their funds to tasks by Thursday COB
    • Plan to review and discuss on next call and then RSG draft scope after that
  • SEMCOG full scale model multiprocessing setup is working
    • Runs in about 2.5 hours with 16 processors
    • Issue was a core Python bug on Windows related to re-entry into large shared memory
    • Also added caching of skims for quick re-reading for model development
    • Important for the consortium to have unallocated resources for unanticipated issues
  • Discussed PopulationSim PR
    • I will comment on the PR for the team to review
    • Team will use GitHub for discussion so contributors can more easily participate
  • Discussed ARC sub model naming suggestion
    • Will keep issue open for now
    • ARC starting up their activitysim implementation project later this summer and plan to compare the results to the existing model

Task 9 Estimation Mode (milestone)

  • Mostly cleaned-up implementation, including some small issues in expressions based on SEMCOG project feedback
  • Working on example distribution system for including a more comprehensive set of examples with activitysim. This is needed for estimation mode since we can't distribute a mini example and get reasonable estimation results. Asim will add a command-line option to download various example sets, including the full data, into a user-specified directory that is fully configured and runnable out of the box.
  • Plan to update notebook with complete start to finish example