David Ory

Following up on @lmz'z comment: The ARC implementation of trip scheduling and trip departure appears to be working correctly in the ActivitySim implementation. It segments each tour into three segments...

Apologies for diving in but not attending the call. I think this is an interesting issue, but do not fully understand from the above description. A few questions: 1. Employees...

It may be useful to separate the issue of in-commuters from episodic telecommuters (which I *think* is what you both mean by WFH). It may be that a single solution...

Thanks @jfdman for clarifying the work from home definition. Building on this, we can then define employment in the socioeconomic data as: a count of people working outside the home...

@jfdman: agree that doing this for non-resident workers makes good sense. My concerns are limited to extending this idea to account for those working from home. I do think it...

@lmz: per your comment last week, I roughed out a [data model template](https://github.com/wsp-sag/activitysim-data-model-template) that *could* be used as an alternative pathway for the input checker. It's very basic and rough...

> @lmz: per your comment last week, I roughed out a [data model template](https://github.com/wsp-sag/activitysim-data-model-template) that _could_ be used as an alternative pathway for the input checker. It's very basic and...

> You don't have to write paragraphs to this question - but hoping you can bring me up to speed. I can understand the high value of a data model,...

Right @bettinardi. One key difference is that if you used the data model, it would be more logical to write validation methods in Python directly, rather than via an ActivitySim...