OpenMobility Telco Oct 5th, 2021

Attendees

• Christoph Sommer
• Michele Albano
• Dominik Salles
• Andy Riexinger
• Michele Segata
• Michael Plagge
• Karl Schrab
• Robert Protzmann
• Jerome Harri
• Robert Hilbrich

News from (Currently) Associated Projects

Eclipse SUMO

• SUMO User Conference from September 13 to 15, 2021

  • Virtual conference using Zoom as in the last year
  • International audience from over 30 different countries on 4 continents
  • A total of over 350 participants
  • User tutorial by Jakob about the latest SUMO features and extensions, with many interested questions from the audience
  • 28 presentations on various topics of mobility simulation and modeling with open source tools and data as well as a keynote on ride-hailing, ride-pooling and the role of traffic simulation in this context
  • Virtual social event on Tuesday evening
  • Wonder.me room for further discussions about SUMO during the breaks for networking and informal exchange

• Presentation about Eclipse SUMO at the ITS World Congress in Hamburg next week (on Thursday, 6pm)

• SUMO changes

  • All (positional) detector can now handle persons
  • boarding duration also applies to exiting persons / containers

• Contact to Google / Alphabet modeling team

Eclipse MOSAIC

• Next release 21.1 will be released at the end of this week
• Integration of libsumo
• Logging facilities are improved
• ns-3 has been upgraded to the latest version
• new model for the battery consumption

Other News from the Attendees

• Eclipse openMCx has now had its first release - it is now available
• Indy autonomous final race will be on the weekend before EclipseCon (all vehicles are openADx powered)

Real Work

Whitepaper: Survey or Landscape of Demand Generators for SUMO

• Current status - no new status update; foodle for the next meeting will be sent by Michael in the next days

Direction of openMobility for the Future

• Where should we proceed with openMobility?
• Options for the nature of openMobility: a) openMobility is a place to build and start a community around the topics mobility (no Budget, almost no infrastructure, no program plan, …) b) openMobility should be a place to specifically work towards a common goal (with a program plan, a dedicated budget, …)
• Eclipse Foundation Working Group process requires a Working Group to have a program plan and a budget plan - which could be a form of orientation for the steering committee
• Michael P. suggests to align research initiatives in the field of mobility under the openMobility umbrella
• Jerome recommends to work in the field of advertising and marketing of open data success stories for public entities
• Christoph sees the burden and inflexibility of having a program plan
• Michele likes the free and informal exchange of ideas (in the area of SUMO)
• Robert is open towards having a program plan
• A budget plan with reasonable funds seems unlikely for everybody

Any other Business

• EclipseCon Oct 25-28 (virtual event)
  • Community Day on Monday Oct 25
  • Joe Speed will talk a bit more about Indy Autonomous Challenge
  • Andy and I plan to have a session to introduce new users to the community, but also to connect with members of other working groups
  • BoF meeting on Tuesday afternoon

Next Meetings

• Next meeting: Oct 19, 13:30-14:30 Berlin time

  • Please prepare your thoughts on the future of openMobility - do we want to define and follow a program plan?

• Technical meeting to follow next: Pedestrians and Shared Space

  • Foodle for a time slot in the next 4-6 weeks will be sent out by Michael Behrisch