Project Meeting 2020.05.15

Task 1 Project Management (milestone)

Discuss Phase 6 scoping and ranking here
- Team discussed updates to task descriptions
- Collaborating with SEMCOG on telecommute and transit pass makes sense
- Tasks that go into significantly new modeling territory should probably start with a review/design task and be phased since they likely consume too much resources in each phase
- Maybe ARC time-of-day choice model is an incremental step toward time-of-day improvement without the large scale architectural revisions required for the complete move to the DaySim approach?
- Adding a household vehicle table is a good foundational first step toward more involved vehicle modeling
- Add more detail to the transit pass plan
- Add more discussion about types of testing
- Important for partners to download future updates to the software and it works with minimal problems for them
- Support for partners yes, support for others to a lesser extent
- Next steps - @Ben add some more detail and add rough LOE estimates
- We discuss next time (5/22) and then PMC prioritize by next call (5/29)
- Then draft scope of work first week of June
Let's leave PRs open for a week or so so everyone gets a chance to see it / review it
FYI, SEMCOG full sample single process run works but we're investigating a multiprocessing issue

Cleaning-up implementation, including some small issues in expressions revisions, improvements to settings for saving logsums, expression tracing, etc.
Starting user documentation, see new flow chart of process that I can explain today
Leaner/cleaner data model improvements happening as well
- Can now identify input fields to keep on load and many in the example are not needed so the table sizes are smaller, which means less disk space for the pipeline and the ability to fit more households in RAM, which should help with runtime
- Pipeline steps with underscore at the beginning of their name can be run without writing to the disk, which means using less disk space and a bit faster run
- Still need ability to save select fields such as costs for later analysis
FYI, setting up functionality for SEMCOG so this is helping identify improvements