Project Meeting 2025.05.15

Agenda

• ActivitySim Roadmap

Technical

• ActivitySim Roadmap
  • Completed 5 interviews; Scheduled 6 more before end of month; Plan to interview all agencies
    • If you are not scheduled for an interview, please reach out to WSP
  • Common questions asked
    • What is status of ActivitySim implementation?
    • What are the challenges faced? What are the barriers?
    • What are your views on current and proposed governance and management plans?
    • Do you have any suggestions for the ActivitySim roadmap?
• Where do agencies stand today (based on 5 interviews)
  • All different stages: Completed but testing or recalibrating (not in production mode); Just started implementation; Not started yet
• Key Challenges
  • Developing input data
  • High demand on staff time and resources
  • Constant pressure to keep up with new releases and developments
  • Engineering-heavy focus makes implementation challenging for end users
  • Insufficient documentation, especially for modifying model components and understanding reasonable changes in model sensitivity
• What agencies need most
  • Step-by-step training materials and comprehensive documentation
  • Peer-to-peer sharing of best practices
  • Improved user interface and summaries
  • Practical use case and scenario examples
  • A repository of sensitivity tests
• Governance and Management
  • Opportunity to participate both in-meetings and online
  • Support distributed responsibility/action items among partners
    • But many members can't commit more time to ActivitySim beyond attending meetings
  • Consider All Hands Meeting to focus on final sharing and decision making
• General Feedback
  • North Star: ActivitySim as primary production model
    • Only SANDAG has adopted ActivitySim as Production model
  • Publish training materials and enhance documentation - WSP will add to Roadmap
    • Video trainings
    • Could consider members-only in-person training
  • Develop use cases and scenario examples
  • Organize potential features into short-, medium-, long-term work plan, without a specific timestamp - leave prioritization to partner members
• Roadmap Next Steps
  • Revise Draft Roadmap based on comments on table of contents
  • Conduct remaining interviews and incorporate feedback into Roadmap
  • Add meeting in beginning of June to discuss further