Status Update on School Drop-off/ Pick-up Model

• Presentation by RSG: school_escorting_implementation_pt1.pptx

• Choices made for each bundle

• First Set of Choices: School escorting options by direction

  • Weighted utility for chauffeur selection
    • Person type has the highest weight; lower person types are workers and have a lower weight, higher person type for those that aren’t working and are more likely to be able to chauffeur and have a higher weight
    • Women twice as likely as men to be selected, all other things being equal
  • Utility spreadsheet and preprocessor files (and their terms and specs) were reviewed with the group
  • What are the biggest difficulties when translating from java to ActivitySim, any simplifications?
    • Translating from the object trees to ActivitySim’s tables
    • Alternatives are just an input file now

• Next Choices: tour level attributes

  • Pure escort tours need to be created; rideshare tours are already created because of the primary purpose (mandatory) tour
  • Tour mode could be user configurable. For the SANDAG implementation, it is auto only.

• Next Choices: trip level attributes

  • No intermediate stops between home and school, only direct drop-off

• Current status:

  • Tours are created
  • Rethinking tour ID sequencing
  • Still need to do trip level choices/variables
  • Pull request has been created, if anyone wants to take a look