Project Meeting 2021.11.18

Agenda

• Clint Daniels will provide an update on ARC model implementation
  • Showed comparisons between 4 different runs of the ActivitySim ARC implementation
  • model runtimes are significantly improved with proper chunking
  • time of day grouping can decrease tour scheduling times
• WSP has created some code to insert tables into the ActivitySim pipeline to start models with without having to run upstream components
  • could be useful for comparison to analogous CT-RAMP models and estimation mode
• Visualization product document
  • Discussed creation of a data dictionary for common outputs
  • There is a data_dict.txt ActivitySim output file that does specify where the output columns are first created, but this doesn't specify everything
  • example abm data dictionaries for ARC and ODOT
  • Issue created #523
• Next week's meetings on Nov 23 and Nov 25 are cancelled due to Thanksgiving holiday