Extending Passenger Flow Modeling Range: Integration with MATSim Urban Large
Scale Simulator
Dynamic and unimpeded passenger flows in public stations are a key aspect of reliable public transport infrastructure. To analyse and improve whole stations or smaller areas, SimWalk Transport offers a leading station design and passenger flow simulation software.
For clients who want to model larger areas, up to urban scale simulations, SimWalk now co-operates with senozon, the service provider for MATSim.
MATSim is a transport planning software to model and simulate individual based passenger travels within very large urban areas. Its core feature is to fully model the activity-based demand (rail, bus, car, walking) of each mobile person during the whole day, including here/his chains of activities and trips. In addition, this personalized demand is directly assigned to given transport infrastructures such as roads and public transit services of various characteristics.
Berlin, the Busy City: The movie, calculated with MATSim, shows how and when activities are performed during the day. Every flashing spot indicates that a new activity has just been startet at that location. The colors indicate the type of activity:
red: tourist activities
yellow: shopping activities
green: leisure activities
violet:education activities
light blue: work activities
orange:activities from or to the airports
dark blue: staying at home
The interconnection between SimWalk and MATSim allows one to extend significantly the analytic and predictive range of passenger modeling and simulation. It provides direct assignment of MATSim's fully person based travel demand to any entrance and exits of station designs in SimWalk to improve the accuracy of passenger flow analyis in time and space. On the other hand, SimWalk delivers detailed in-building travel times of passengers for extending the MATSim demand modeling process.
