Project Meeting 2022.03.10

Agenda

Sijia to talk to Billy about making example visualization for an ActivitySim project, such as the MTC example.
Joe to create a separate meeting to finalize outstanding issues related to vehicle type and allocation models.

Visualization
- WSP made SimWrapper part of ActivitySim's dependencies. Pushed to conda forge and updated conda environment to include SimWrapper.
- SANDAG to review the visualization code from WSP.
- Visualization example is from Berlin and group would like the example to reflect on of the ActivitySim project.
Vehicle type and allocation
- RSG is close to finishing.
- One outstanding issue discussed via email. This isn't completely resolved. Joe will set up a separate meeting to finalize a path forward to finishing. This meeting is intended to be a smaller group but anyone can join.

WSP presented on Docker for ActivitySim.

What is it?
- Docker is a stand alone software. Docker desktop acts like a UI, where you can specify how you would run docker on your local machine or server. You can define how much RAM you want Docker to use, for example.
- Docker runs on machine resources but could be deployed on the cloud.
- Docker is free for individual users, but they do have different tiers with paid versions. It's unclear if it would be free for agencies using ActivitySim.
Using Docker with ActivitySim
- It's unclear if just the ActivitySim parts of a model would run in Docker or the whole model. It was unclear if TransCAD or other software would work within Docker. You can write a script to implement Docker instead of specifying everything manually in a command line.
- Here is a link to Sijia's ActivitySim Docker repository.
After folks have had time to look into Docker and think about it, we will revisit this topic in a few weeks, to consider if the Consortium should be including Docker as a recommendation or built-in option.