Agenda

• Phase 8 wrap-up / Phase 9a update

Action Items

• Michelle to add any new Pull Requests to agendas, as they come in, so that bench contractors and consortium can review the issue and merge/review more promptly.

Meeting Notes

• Done (PRs merged recently)

  • Input Checker: Issue #753
  • Config Settings and Documentation: Issue #758
  • Explicit Chunking: Issue #759
  • Option to write output tables as parquet files: Issue #763
  • Moved 'tot_tours' from nm tour frequency script to alternatives file: Issue #661
  • Add options to handle larger dataset for location models: Issue #687

• In Progress

  • Data Type Optimization (Issue #782): this has been reviewed by Jeff recently and should be merged this afternoon.
  • Compatibility with Pydantic 2.x (Issue #795): A recent test was failing because of the Pydantic version. Jeff updated the code to be compatible with Pydantic version 2. David Hensle to review PR.
  • Added stricter joining of annotated fields (Issue #672)
  • Once the two above PRs are merged, then a new release can be made, hopefully by the end of this week, allowing the bench contractors to start the benchmark profiling for the MTC Example next week.

• To Do

  • Compatibility with Pandas 2.x (Issue #794) - Jeff would like to upgrade the code for compatibility with Pandas 2.x. This is more work but may have some additional memory handling benefits. These changes will be made after the release, so that improvements can be measured and compared to the baseline.