Project Meeting 2020.02.28

Project Management (milestone)

• @Joe setup meeting time for phase 6 scoping call
• 5B amendment out for signature; @Bill send NTP
• For 5B, we started thinking about an approach for model estimation mode based on conversation with Jeff Newman, the developer of larch. I'll soon put my notes into a wiki page to get this task started.
  • We plan to review pros and cons of the estimation packages and select one for prototyping mode choice and destination choice integration
  • larch, pylogit, pybiogeme, choicemodels, etc.
  • choicemodels doesn't do nested logit
  • pybiogeme now has a pandas version
  • review ease of use, coding, performance, support community, maturity, etc.

Task 5 TNCs (milestone)

• Updated example to use just mean wait times for now
• Finalized code changes and added Mobility-As-A-Service modes (taxi, TNC single, TNC shared) to the docs
• Running full scale example so I can check results - mode shares, results in space, time-of-day, etc.
• @MTC shared via email more about the source and quality of the TM1.5 observed TNC wait times data
• @SFCTA/MTC to help with new TNC survey data summaries for comparison, including wait time distributions

Task 6 Model Developer Tutorial (milestone)

• BCA command line utility released and so we're going to do the same for ActivitySim
• I'll then update and finish the tutorial
• We'll update docs to include our recipe book, and we'll have two recipes for now (i.e. the auto own and TNC tutorials)
• Future work orders probably want to create a couple new recipes each time
• @Ben ask Greg at BYU to pull request a recipe from his efforts once we have our recipe book framework in place
• Upcoming Task 2 strategic plan is a good spot to discuss co-evolving docs/recipes together