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The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim, edited by Andreas Horni, Kai Nagel, Kay W. Axhausen

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  • "The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly activity programme. It has since then evolved from a collection of stand-alone C++ programs to an integrated Java-based framework which is publicly hosted, open-source available, automatically regression tested. It is currently used by about 40 groups throughout the world. This book takes stock of the current status. The first part of the book gives an introduction to the most important concepts, with the intention of enabling a potential user to set up and run basic simulations. The second part of the book describes how the basic functionality can be extended, for example by adding schedule-based public transit, electric or autonomous cars, paratransit, or within-day replanning. For each extension, the text provides pointers to the additional documentation and to the code base. It is also discussed how people with appropriate Java programming skills can write their own extensions, and plug them into the MATSim core. The project has started from the basic idea that traffic is a consequence of human behavior, and thus humans and their behavior should be the starting point of all modelling, and with the intuition that when simulations with 100 million particles are possible in computational physics, then behavior-oriented simulations with 10 million travelers should be possible in travel behavior research
  • The initial implementations thus combined concepts from computational physics and complex adaptive systems with concepts from travel behavior research. The third part of the book looks at theoretical concepts that are able to describe important aspects of the simulation system; for example, under certain conditions the code becomes a Monte Carlo engine sampling from a discrete choice model. Another important aspect is the interpretation of the MATSim score as utility in the microeconomic sense, opening up a connection to benefit cost analysis. Finally, the book collects use cases as they have been undertaken with MATSim. All current users of MATSim were invited to submit their work, and many followed with sometimes crisp and short and sometimes longer contributions, always with pointers to additional references. We hope that the book will become an invitation to explore, to build and to extend agent-based modeling of travel behavior from the stable and well tested core of MATSim documented here."
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eng
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1 online resource (xxxii, 586 pages)
Isbn
9781909188754
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The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim
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The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim
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edited by Andreas Horni, Kai Nagel, Kay W. Axhausen
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Editor
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly activity programme. It has since then evolved from a collection of stand-alone C++ programs to an integrated Java-based framework which is publicly hosted, open-source available, automatically regression tested. It is currently used by about 40 groups throughout the world. This book takes stock of the current status. The first part of the book gives an introduction to the most important concepts, with the intention of enabling a potential user to set up and run basic simulations. The second part of the book describes how the basic functionality can be extended, for example by adding schedule-based public transit, electric or autonomous cars, paratransit, or within-day replanning. For each extension, the text provides pointers to the additional documentation and to the code base. It is also discussed how people with appropriate Java programming skills can write their own extensions, and plug them into the MATSim core. The project has started from the basic idea that traffic is a consequence of human behavior, and thus humans and their behavior should be the starting point of all modelling, and with the intuition that when simulations with 100 million particles are possible in computational physics, then behavior-oriented simulations with 10 million travelers should be possible in travel behavior research
  • The initial implementations thus combined concepts from computational physics and complex adaptive systems with concepts from travel behavior research. The third part of the book looks at theoretical concepts that are able to describe important aspects of the simulation system; for example, under certain conditions the code becomes a Monte Carlo engine sampling from a discrete choice model. Another important aspect is the interpretation of the MATSim score as utility in the microeconomic sense, opening up a connection to benefit cost analysis. Finally, the book collects use cases as they have been undertaken with MATSim. All current users of MATSim were invited to submit their work, and many followed with sometimes crisp and short and sometimes longer contributions, always with pointers to additional references. We hope that the book will become an invitation to explore, to build and to extend agent-based modeling of travel behavior from the stable and well tested core of MATSim documented here."
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006.30285436
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no index present
LC call number
QA76.76.I58
LC item number
.M858 2016
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non fiction
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dictionaries
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  • 1965-
  • 1958-
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  • Horni, Andreas
  • Nagel, Kai
  • Axhausen, K. W.
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  • Open Access e-Books
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  • Multiagent systems
  • Choice of transportation
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The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim, edited by Andreas Horni, Kai Nagel, Kay W. Axhausen
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rdacarrier
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mixed
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text
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Content type MARC source
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxii, 586 pages)
Form of item
online
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Open Access
Isbn
9781909188754
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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Label
The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim, edited by Andreas Horni, Kai Nagel, Kay W. Axhausen
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xxxii, 586 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Open Access
Isbn
9781909188754
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (OCoLC)972038728
  • (WaSeSS)IndRDA00125043
  • (EXLCZ)993710000000824690
System details
  • Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web
  • System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended)

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