- SUMO User Conference from September 13 to 15, 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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?
-Two options for the nature of openMobility:
a) openMobility is a place to build and start a community around the topics mobility (zero Budget, almost no infrastructure, no program plan, ...)
-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