MATSim (the Multi-Agent Transport Simulation Toolkit) is an
open source
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software development
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project developing
agent-based
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software modules intended for use with
transportation planning models.
History
"The MATSim project started with Kai Nagel, then at
ETH Zurich
(colloquially)
, former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule
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, established =
, type = Public
, budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021)
, rector = Günther Dissertori
, president = Joël Mesot
, ac ...
, and his interest in
improving his work with, and for, the TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System (TRANSIMS)
project; he also wanted to make the resulting code open-source. After
Kai Nagel’s departure to
TU Berlin
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in 2004, Kay W. Axhausen joined the team, bringing a different approach
and experience."
[The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation
MATSim, edited by Andreas Horni, Kai Nagel, Kay W. Axhausen. https://github.com/matsim-org/book]
Areas of Application
MATSim has been applied to various areas: road transport,
public transport, freight transport, regional evacuation etc.
References
External links
* http://www.matsim.org/
Models of computation
Complex systems theory
Multi-agent systems
Traffic simulation
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