Project Meeting 2020.07.17

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

Finalized Phase 6a scope
- Team is comfortable with this version
- Added Jeff Newman, the larch author, to the team to help with the estimation work
- @Ben send to Bill now
Zephyr tutorial now planned for Monday, September 14th from 10:00 - 11:30 Pacific
- @Joe convene group to spec out the tutorial
Closed PR #323 to fix small min inbound departure times issue since the PR was to master and we're working on develop + it included some fixes already in the develop branch
Opened PR #325 from RSG develop to ActivitySim develop for recent work. Still working on website docs, but plan to finish soon and then pull for your review
@Ben invite SEMCOG team (Joel and others) to a future meeting to share the calibration notebook and their experience setting up the model
@Ben setup doodle poll to look for a meeting time more friendly to Jeff

Reviewed relevant information from peer projects like matsim, astropy, visioneval
Making some progress on the strategic development and contribution plan outline here
Plan to share next week

Ran all tutorials again to make sure everything works with the latest code and made a few updates for the upcoming PR to ActivitySim develop

The new get TVPB logsum methods in tour mode choice now computes logsums on demand for interaction_sample_simulate, which means it returns expressions like tvpb_logsum_odt['DTW'] + tvpb_logsum_dot['WTD'] in work/school location choice for drive transit logsums
There is no caching/pre-computing at this time so runtimes are really slow
Working on getting the calculations and math correct and then will circle back to performance/pre-computing strategy
Discussed the need for a more complete example test data setup for exercising the functionality
@Ben check with @Jeff about using the SANDAG test data