Technical Advisory Committee September 10, 2014

Today’s Agenda 2014-2015 work plan progress report & update 3-Year funding model 2015 Meetings Other Business

Work Plan (Scheduled)

Completed Deliverables Transit Assignment Improvements: Fare-based transit network tool and input specification 2012 fare schema file Estimated parameters and code for fare-based transit assignment Road Assignment Improvements: SOLA traffic assignment testing Convergence optimization

Completed Deliverables TMG Toolbox Improvements Spatial index module Upgraded CCGEN Tool for network updates Tool to load network attributes from geometry Within-toolbox tool list (i.e. documentation) Durham Region Model deployed

Work In-progress XTMF 1.1 development Future year base networks GTAModel V4 Progress Validation Documentation Partially-deployed to the City of Toronto and the City of Mississauga

GTAModel V4 Progress Completed In-Progress Not Yet Begun N/A Stage Designed Prepared Data Coded Debugged Estimated Validated Comment Population Synthesis + Car Ownership Model   Simple population synthesis only TASHA Activity Generation TASHA Activity Scheduling PoRPoW PoRPoS NWS Location Choice Mode Choice Park-and-Ride Station Choice Auto Assignment Transit Assignment Fare-Based Transit Assignment External Trips Airport Model Overall Validation Completed In-Progress Not Yet Begun N/A

Work To-do Scoping Reports: Transit speed updating Road classification Traffic assignment improvements Freight model update Future year base network infrastructure Emme 4 Scripting Workshop scheduled for October 8th

Work Plan Status, Summary

Proposed 2015 Meeting Schedule TMGTAC meetings are working well on an every-other month basis. Suggest meetings in January, March, May, (July), September, November Suggest that we can cut back to 3 TMGSC meetings: February: Work plan & budget approval June: 1/3 of way into the year; update on work plan October: 2/3 of way into the year; preliminary discussion of next year’s work plan & budget TMGTAC meetings will occur near end of the month; TMGSC meetings will occur near beginning of the month TMGTAC meetings will occur 1-2 weeks ahead of TMGSC meetings

Thank you! Next Steering Committee Meeting: December 10th, 2014