Project Meeting 2021.04.15 - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

  • Partners call after this
  • Bench IRFPs planned for next week
  • Still working on documentation/examples/tidying-up for upcoming release v0.99
  • Improved handling of long filenames, #409
  • PSRC fixed high trip fail rate - was related to bad land use input data
  • We'll plan a workshop at the AMPO conference in October
  • And also maybe a workshop at the technical symposium in May of next year
  • A 2 hour workshop at the AMPO conference should be good
  • @Joe, Caitlin, Ben setup a separate call to discuss
  • Chattanooga also interested in ActivitySim

Task 2 Complete Estimation Mode (milestone)

  • See task 1

Task 3 Telecommute Model in Cooperation with SEMCOG (milestone)

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

  • Joel working on revisions based on comments
  • MTC looking into employment data and other sources but this exercise has identified a need for fare subsidy information in future surveys
  • Folks to review the latest design emails
  • How might this relate to MaaS options?
  • Remember discounts (e.g. age) and subsidies (e.g. employer) are different things
  • Maybe make two separate models?
  • It would be good to inventory more use cases for this model? Please share ideas/needs if you have them
  • Passes by income, age, student, employer, for equity reasons, etc.
  • Can we add an override percent feature similar to telecommute model?

Task 5 Performance Enhancements (milestone)

  • See task 1

Task 6 Prototype multiple models test system (milestone)

  • See task 1

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

  • Task 7 usability issues plan:
    • Improve RAM/chunking settings #406
      • Switch from chunk_size parameter to available_memory parameter (say 56GB of 64GB available on the machine) and let ActivitySim figure out the appropriate chunk_size given the number of processors specified
      • And save the calculated settings to disk so ActivitySim can re-use it next time to save even a little more time. This assumes the same basic inputs, machine config, etc.
    • Print info about no alternative found, #404
    • Turn off restarting if desired, #405
  • Jeff to start on this next week

Task 8 Maintenance and Support (milestone)

  • See task 1