1. Technical Advisory Committee
Novemeber 5, 2014

2. Today’s Agenda 2014-15 Work Update Future year pop/emp data
Discussion of draft work plan
Other business

3. Work Plan (Scheduled)

4. GTAModel V4.0 All core modules programmed
Working on fixing ‘broken-looped’ transit lines in the network
Waiting on the completion of new network for further validation
Currently organizing the work for a new population synthesis procedure

5. Documentation
Detailed documentation of ‘TMG.Estimation’ has been added to XTMF’s documentation
V4.0 Model Design document has been updated with all of the latest changes to the model system
A user guide will be produced in during the SmartTrack with complete workflow information

6. XTMF Core
XTMF 1.1
All unit tests pass
Able to load, edit, and save projects and model systems
Able to run model systems
Loads projects in parallel to enhance performance
XTMF.Gui 1.1
Able to Load, and edit model systems
Able to load projects, and edit contained model systems
Almost able to run model systems
Unable to save, or add modules to a list
All source code is available at

7. XTMF Core

8. Ongoing V4 development & Testing
Additional validation modules in development
Validate population synthesis in depth

9. Transit Assignment Tasks
Congested Transit Assignment is operating well
We might recalibrate parameters once the loops have been fixed

10. Road Networks & Assignment
A preliminary tool for multiclass road assignment has been developed
Currently being used for testing freight and HOV research models

11. Freight Modelling 2001 calibrated model running in XTMF
Working with Roorda to improve the model

12. Active Transportation
Nothing concrete yet
Students are still working on this

13. Future Year Base Networks
Using the SmartTrack project as a proving ground for future year network combining
Lessons learned, and possibly code, will be later used for developing the full system

14. TMG Toolbox Improvements
Now distributed together with XTMF
Retrofitted GTAModel V2, and V2.5 with parallel transit assignment
Improved the names/namespaces of tools to properly match their file names
Created batch files to automatically generate toolboxes from source code
Also can build a consolidated toolbox
All source is available at

15. Outreach & Training Python Workshop Setup IBI, HDR, and PB with XTMF
HDR used XTMF to calibrate Durham Region Model
IBI is using XTMF to run Durham Region Model
PB is considering using XTMF for future work

16. Future Year Pop/Emp Data
Building a repository of shared data
Removing the barriers to sharing
Discuss

17. Workplan
(Switch to the pdf)

18. Thank you!
Next TAC Meeting: TBD