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    1. TipIn development

      While commendable to show that RSG has improvements planned, I wonder if we are setting ourselves up to deliver more work beyond project contract if we set this expectation?

    2. The adjustment procedure operated at the linked trip level. Each linked trip was classified into a mutually exclusive trip type, and trip rate factors were then estimated and applied to linked trips. Unlinked trips and tours received their weights from linked trips.

      Review for tense. This is all past tense, while previous chapters were mostly present

    1. m: number of mailed invites in the sample segment H: total number of households in the sample segment (estimated from 5-year ACS data) R: number of responses (complete households) in the sample segment BW: base weight for a given sample segment

      Suggest turning this into bulleted list

    1. adjust_unrelated_pums

      Is this in the script or manual? If the former, I suggest also referencing the part in Ch 8 (Survey Data Preparation) or simply that there's more detail to come in Ch 8. Without more context it leaves users asking why it's on longer used, or why there was legacy code in the first place

    2. checksum

      Is this is a variable or part of the script? If so, the font type should match how other variables or script are handled for consistency (and user recognition)

    3. First, the script counts the number of adults and children in each household to retain household composition information. Next, it re-labels the number of vehicles to maintain consistency. The key transformation then assigns each adult as their own household by modifying the SERIALNO and SPORDER identifiers, effectively creating a new household for each adult while dropping children from the dataset. This ensures that person-level targets are accurately represented, with each adult treated as a separate entity for weighting purposes. Finally, the script verifies that the total weights remain consistent after this restructuring, ensuring that the overall population estimates are preserved.

      Consider reformatting this into a bulleted list

    4. households so that estimates align with the population

      I suggest rephrasing, something like: "data so that estimates align with the targets (i.e.,population)."

    1. Gray

      This may be splitting hairs. Outside the study region is listed as "gray" here but in the figure & legend, it appears more purple. Maybe because it's the rainbow colors which make me assume the last color is purple (or violet), and also because there are other regions in the map that are gray, albeit a lighter shade of gray

    2. (a)

      Can this be displayed within the paragraph and not in this separate text box? It's odd to have to scroll horizontally to finish reading this paragraph

    3. TRUE

      I find having interspersed code like this in narrative descriptions sometimes hard to follow since I don't know what "largest_bg_to_client_zone" is meant to be. Would a reader/user of this manual be familiar with this code already?