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ActivitySim / activitysim

An Open Platform for Activity-Based Travel Modeling
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generic zone labels other than 'TAZ' #75

Closed bstabler closed 3 years ago

bstabler commented 8 years ago

@wusun2 - would like support for generic zone labels other than 'TAZ'. This raises a question about the boundary between what the developer is responsible for and what the modeler is responsible for. TAZ is currently hard wired into many of the activitysim/defaults/tables and activitysim/defaults/models classes, probably because it is in the initial input HDF5 data. Is the goal for the modeler setting up a new model to not need to revise these classes? We'll come back to this issue later in the project.

e-lo commented 8 years ago

Can this just resolved by renaming it "zone" find/replace?

bstabler commented 7 years ago

Partially. We also need to revise the example data, the scripts that prepare the example data, and the documentation. I suggest we deal with this when we start to tackle multiple zone systems.

bstabler commented 7 years ago

This is related to the work going on here. This won't be fixed with the multiple zone system design, but it will be prototyped.

bstabler commented 3 years ago

As explained in the latest example settings file, with the release of support for multiple zone systems, we standardized on activitysim using "well-known" index and foreign key names for imported tables as well as for created tables. As a result, the zone label is now "zone_id" and if your input file has a different field (such as "TAZ") then you can rename it on import from "TAZ" to "zone_id".