Project Meeting 2025.02.11 - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki
Agenda
Tech
Explicit telecommuting update
Admin
MoMo ActivitySim Abstracts / Session
Administrative Transition Update
Contract review status
Technical
Explicit telecommuting update
WSP recommends separating the design exercise into three parts
Design of the ActivitySim software
Design example implementation, using SANDAG example model
Design of production implementation, SANDAG ABM3 model
WSP revised the model adjustments to consider based on consortium feedback
Explicit telecommute component to identify simulation day telecommuters - already implemented
A hybrid working component to identify workings who spend part of the day working at their usual work location and part of the day working from home
A work episode component to explicitly simulate the number of work activities (including both out-of-home and at-home) and corresponding locations
Time spent working at home component for workers on the simulation day
Scheduling component for start and end time of work from home episodes
There are questions about how the teleworking updates affect the upstream and downstream components that need to be worked out
Joe agrees this should pivot to a design rather than implementation task
Joel says it would be helpful to look at other surveys to try to replicate the summaries with more data points
PSRC survey suggests that hybrid workers travel a lot and have distinct travel patterns
Joe suggests that focus of task should be on what we can update with existing framework and identify what could potentially be updated later as part of a next generation model or larger update
Scope should be modified to be more generic about identifying possible longer term changes and having discussions about those options
Decisions should be data driven
Bhargava suggests that SANDAG ABM3 and example model should remain similar to each other
But finding that balance may be difficult
Joe states that keeping the models consistent and taking advantage of SANDAG ABM3 updates is worthwhile
Administrative
Thursday's meeting will be cancelled.
SANDAG plans to submit abstracts to MoMo related to ActivitySim - application focused
HGAC will submit on airport model that was implemented in ActivitySim
Could start session with overall overview of ActivitySim and then follow it with other presentations on ActivitySim that are being submitted
Joe will write an abstract that proposes a session that starts with high level description of project and development status and then suggest that it include application focused presentations