Project Meeting 2017.12.21

VERSPM Migration

Brian working on the energy and emissions model: VEEnergyAndEmissions
Made two significant revisions to the framework as a result:
- Added an optional inputs pre-processor step called by the initialize module
- Added an OPTIONAL tag to INP to check input, if data is present
- These can be used to pre-process input data and to run various data checks, such as proportions sum to 1
- Still need to update documentation for framework revisions
Working in the storage-test branch and so will merge in develop before committing and testing
Moved some stuff from VEHouseholdVehicle to VEEnergyAndEmissions as well - vehicle powertrains, mpg, etc
VERPAT could use VEEnergyAndEmissions with default data by year as optional inputs maybe
Should be done with this in a few days
Next up is budgets and costs and congestion modules
Should be done with VERSPM by mid-Jan

Adi finished placetypes module and accessibilities module
Adi working on vehicles module now
VESimHouseholds doesn't work for 0 group quarters - @Brian to investigate
Should be done with vehicles module by end of year
Next up is travelDemand module
Maybe new optional data inputs feature will make working with inputs of different years easier

Adi merged storage-test into develop, fixed the tests, and updated VEGUI to work with RD files via the new framework API
Travis test limited to 50 minutes and we're now at 42 minutes
Installing all the dependent packages takes a long time
We could solve this problem by splitting VE resources into separate repositories #129

We need to setup our administrative meeting again - say every 6 to 10 weeks
All work is currently being done under the AASHTO contract
General schedule for delivery is VERPAT software end of March, VEGUI/Visualizer end of May
- There are project milestones for these project phases