Project Meeting 2024.04.11

Agenda

Liaison with European ABM association
- Inquiry stemmed from European Transport Conference (ETC) where they noted they don’t have many ABMs and was looking to connect with ActivitySim
- Interest in ABMs in Europe, but they are very behind the US.
  - Climate change and energy consumption are driving motivations
  - A lot of individual operators have their own models
- Joe, Alex, or an agency staff could present to this group to show the viable collaboration across agencies and industry.
Someone from Dubai asked MWCOG about their use of ActivitySim and MWCOG responded

Currently closing out BayDAG PRs
Working on various bug fixes
- Automatically drop unneeded columns in choosers table
  - Not sure if it’s windows vs mac thing; CS could test on their windows server.
  - Sijia to see if she can duplicate her anomalous results.
  - If problem goes away, move forward with merging.
  - If problem does not go away, we’ll have more concrete information to evaluate and dig into it a little more.
Run BayDAG end-to-end, possibly without sharrow
- CS working to run test-size BayDAG end-to-end without sharrow.
- Small issues with getting components to work with sharrow.
  - The components that were written as extensions, and not as core components, don’t have all the same infrastructure to do things like skip sharrow. Jeff/CS went through all the core components to make a consistent set-up to skip sharrow in any of the core components. The extension models are out of sync of that, they will need to be updated in a similar way.
  - There are instances where there is re-indexing that sharrow isn’t able to handle, so moving those to preprocessors. CS is about halfway through the components.
  - In a few more days, hope to get through all the model components and show results.
School escorting optimization is close to being done and should be run on the MTC example next week.
Planning for a technical check-in on Tuesday