User Meeting 2009

Date & Location

The MATSim user meeting will take place from 21. - 24. April 2009 at the Technische Univerität Berlin. See the directions for details.

Program

(1) MATSim tutorial from Tuesday morning to Thursday noon

For the tutorial part we will have talks in the morning held by MATSim developers from Berlin, Zürich and Lyon. In the afternoon we will offer tutorials on how to use MATSim for newcomers as well as for advanced users.  This will include, as much as possible, elements such as

(2) MATSim user meeting from Thursday noon to Friday afternoon

During the user meeting current projects and applications of MATSim will be presented and other MATSim users will report about their experiences with MATSim. Users are invited to present their own experiences.  If you want to present, please let us know a title by 31.01.2009.

Registration

Participants can separately register for the tutorial part and the user meeting part. Registration fees are:

 

tutorial (early registration)

user meeting (early registration)

late and on-site registration 
students * 50,- 50,- + 50,-
university members 100,- 100,- + 50,-
external persons 200,- 200,- + 50,-

Early registration is available until 31.01.2009. All prices in Euro.

Since we have limited capacities, we encourage all participants to make use of the early registration.

Registration fee for the tutorial includes coffee breaks and lunch on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The registration fee for the user meeting includes coffee breaks, a workshop dinner on Thursday and a lunch on Friday.

Please manually register with Andrea Stillarius (stillarius@vsp.tu-berlin.de) by naming your:

We will inform you about the details of the payment order later.

Accommodation

Participants are kindly requested to organize their accommodation themselves:

Please use the key "matsim" for your reservation. This special offer is only available until 15.03.2009.

Contact

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Johannes Illenberger (illenberger@vsp.tu-berlin.de).

 

* Studentinnen und Studenten der TU Berlin zahlen keine Gebühr sofern sie das Seminar als Lehrveranstaltung 0533 L 013 (Multiagenten-Simulationen von Verkehr) belegen. Mittagessen und Abendessen sind nicht inbegriffen.

Slides Tutorial

Note: The example code and the resulting population.xml file have been removed from the demand generation... archive because they don't reflect the recommended way this should be done. However those files are replaced by more recommended versions that are partly still under construction. Therefore they can be found within the matsim svn checkout in the package tutorial.example8DemandGeneration. If possible always try to use the MATSim API, i.e. all code within the packages below org.matsim.api. If this is not possible support us and report your problems on the developer mailing list.

 

The following slides are available for download from the tutorial sessions:

 

 

Slides User Meeting

 The following slides are available for download from the user meeting sessions:

User Meeting 2009 - Program

Program

Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:30

Tutorial
H2036
Introduction

Tutorial
H2036
Exploring parameters
Tutorial
H2036
Programming with Java - Events
IVT
SG4 303
SimGroup Meeting
User Meeting
H2036
Optimizing Number, Sequence and Type of Activities in Agents' Daily Schedules (Matthias Feil)
Application of MATSim to Lyon - building an initial scenario (Fabrice Marchal)
11:00 Coffee Break
H2037
Coffee Break
H2037
Coffee Break
H2037
Coffee Break
H2037
11:15 Tutorial
H2036
Installation & Setup
Tutorial
H2036
Data conversion, demandmodelling, GIS
Tutorial
H2036
Programming with Java - Controller
User Meeting
H2036
MATSim - Newest Developments (Marcel Rieser)
Future Directions (Kai Nagel)
12:45 Lunch
H2037
Lunch
H2037
Lunch
H2037
Lunch
H2037
14:00 Tutorial
H2036
Simple example
Tutorial
H2036
Data conversion, demandmodelling, GIS
User Meeting
H2036
MATSim - An Overview (Kay W. Axhausen)
Supply Agents in MATSim: Some Results (Francesco Ciari)
Incorporating Social Influences into Plan Optimization (Jeremy Hackney)
Open Session...
15:30 Coffee Break
H2037
Coffee Break
H2037
Coffee Break
H2037
15:45 Tutorial
H2036
Visualization
Tutorial
H2036
Real-world case-studies with MATSim
User Meeting
H2036
How to Generate Realistic Contact Networks for Disease Spread using MATSim (Timo Smieszek)
The Initial Agent Steps to Implement MATSim in South Africa (Johan Joubert)
      Workshop Dinner (19:30 h)
Lei e Lui
Wilsnacker Str. 61 - 10559 Berlin
 

Location

The Tutorial and User Meeting will take place at the TU main building (Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin) in room H 2036 (2nd floor).

Check out the map of the central campus and the floor plan of the main building for orientation . Travel directions are available on the website of the TU-Berlin.

Hardware

Participants of the tutorials should bring their own computers. Please make sure that you have the Java Development Kit 5 or newer installed. See also the MATSim system requirements.

Registration

The registration desk is located at room H 2036 and will be open on Tuesday from 9:00 to 9:30.

Workshop Dinner

The workshop dinner will be on Thursday around 19:30 at Lei e Lui (Google Maps Placemark).

Participants

Allan, Aurich - Technical University Dresden
Awajan, Yaser - Hasselt University
Axhausen, Kay W. - ETH Zürich
Balmer, Michael - ETH Zürich
Charypar, David - ETH Zürich
Chen, Yu - Technical University Berlin
Ciampaglia, Giovanni L. - University of Lugano
Ciari, Francesco - ETH Zürich
Cyganski, Rita - German Aerospace Center
Dobler, Christoph - ETH Zürich
Feil, Matthias - ETH Zürich
Gazzola, Mattia - ETH Zürich
Gerike, Regine - Technical University München
Daniel Göhring - Humbold Universität Berlin
Grether, Dominik - Technical University Berlin
Hackney, Jeremy - ETH Zürich
Heidl, Udo - PTV AG
Horni, Andreas - ETH Zürich
Illenberger, Johannes - Technical University Berlin
Joubert, Johan - ETH Zürich, University of Pretoria
Lämmel, Gregor - Technical University Berlin
Lehnhoff, Sebastian - Technical University Dortmund
Liedtke, Gernot - Universität Karlsruhe
Löwa, Sonja - Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Marchal, Fabrice - Lab of Transportation Economics Lyon
Meister, Konrad - ETH Zürich
Moyo, Manuel - Technical University Berlin
Nagel, Kai - Technical University Berlin
Neumann, Andreas - Technical University Berlin
Otterstätter, Thomas - Universität Stuttgart
Rieser, Marcel - Technical University Berlin, ETH Zürich
Saner, Dominik - ETH Zürich
Schroeder, Stefan - Universität Karlsruhe
Senge, Sebastian - Technical University Dortmund
Smieszek, Timo - ETH Zürich
Strippgen, David - Technical University Berlin
Vitins, Basil - Rapp Trans AG
Waraich, Rashid - ETH Zürich
Wilke, Urs - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Zhang, Lun - ETH Zürich

Wish list

should be possible to have leisure acts at homes of others

virus infection should be "possible" in busses

better model for leisure contacts, shop contacts

agents should be able to travel together (ride sharing)

keep code robust

communication-model for agents (e.g. for telematics)

extend evolutionary algo to other agents then just persons (e.g. retailer, public transport, ...)

ways to compare plans, especially planned/executed

withinday replanning

"autostart" new scenarios: make simple demand modelling easier

simulate other time scales than 1 day

improve scenario management (meta-db, data-dump, jar of code)

scenario-repository (data-usage-rights?)

Households

Events read from file are missing reference-pointers