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This paper was originally presented at Heureka '08, Stuttgart, Germany, March 2008 (in German).

Abstract

Micro-simulations for transport planning are becoming increasingly important in traffic
simulation, traffic analysis, and traffic forecasting. In the last decades the shift from using
typically aggregated data to more detailed, individual based, complex data (e.g. GPS tracking)
and the continuously growing computer performance on fixed price level leads to the possibility
of using microscopic models for large scale planning regions.
This chapter presents such a micro-simulation. The work is part of the research project
MATSim (Multi Agent Transport Simulation, http://matsim.org). In the chapter here the focus
lies on design and implementation issues as well as on computational performance of different
parts of the system.
Based on a study of Swiss daily traffic – ca. 2.3 million individuals using motorized individual
transport producing about 7.1 million trips, assigned to a Swiss network model with about 60’000
links, simulated and optimized completely time-dynamic for a complete workday – it is shown
that the system is able to generate those traffic patterns in about 36 hours computation time.

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