Project Meeting 2025.02.18

Agenda

• Admin
  • Agreement / Contract Update
• Technical
  • ActivitySim installation issues

Administrative

• Agreement / Contract Update
  • No concerns with RSG's scope and Joe will make sure that moves forward for being finalized
  • Will initiate new contracts between consultants and Zephyr that are extensions/replacements for contract with AMPO
    • No objections to that decision were voiced during meeting
  • RSG and WSP will send their proposed discussion dates for their technical tasks to Joe over next few days
• Partner agreements
  • Please review agreements and set-up a meeting to discuss with Joe if needed
  • Documents were reviewed by attorney
  • In most cases the only changes are changing from referring to AMPO to referring to Zephyr
    • Want to minimize number of edits so that it makes it easier to get it through each agency and it limits number of changes requested by individual agencies
    • Two weeks from now (March 4) is deadline for pre-legal agency review
  • Joe needs help flagging other steps that need to be taken to get agency approval of agreements
  • Multi-year agreements are an option; Need to align it to a July 1 start and June 30 end date
  • Suggest canceling this Thursday's (March 20th) meeting

Technical

• ActivitySim installation issues
  • WSP reviewed and replicated issue (#919)
    • WSP made a pull request to partly address the issue
  • WSP needs to make other updates to fully address issue on conda forge
  • WSP will do another pull request to address #922, that ActivitySim 1.3.1 is not on Pypy
  • WSP could not replicate error noted in #920
    • Suggest tabling fixing issue to see whether it resolves itself with fixing other issues
  • Installation instructions in documentation are pointing to wrong version - installs ActivitySim 1.2.2
    • WSP recommends updating documentation page
    • WSP suggests removing python version in installation instructions; will test it w/o python version included
  • There is backward compatibility issues when following documentation to try to install older versions of ActivitySim
    • Jeff suggests adding a lock feature to help w/ preventing these issues
      • Would be a long-term fix, but would take about 2 weeks of effort
      • It is necessary, but it is not urgent - fix can be put off till July
    • WSP could do a temporary fix that would be low level of effort; This is necessary to do before doing longer term lock fix
      • Joe suggests moving forward with this fix
    • Plan to revisit the discussion next week to decide how to move forward with longer term fix

ActivitySim v1.3.2 Pip Install *

• Package compatibility updates