BayAreaMetro / bayarea_urbansim

Bay Area Version of the UrbanSim Model
http://bayareametro.github.io/bayarea_urbansim
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External forces space per worker adjustment integration #358

Closed akselx closed 6 months ago

akselx commented 6 months ago

This PR is focused on:

  1. updating space per worker assumptions to current (2023) levels
  2. making future assumptions to space per worker levels in forecast years (focused on the period 2025-2035)

It leverages research on space per worker trends nationally and locally to create updated adjuster files. The adjuster files are already used by the model system to apply cross-sectional detail to the regional space per worker constants.

The PR updates the existing function sqft_per_job in variables.py in the following ways:

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