Starting a new scenario (our term for the application of MATSim to a region/area) can appear quite cumbersome at the first glace, as a lot of data preparation may be required. In any case required for a new scenario are:

• description of the network
• description of the travel demand (synthetic population)

Given these two data items, you can already start building your own scenario. The "Learning MATSim in 3 days"-Tutorial gives you an introduction on how to build your own scenario.

Import from VISUM

See here for javadoc, and here for code.

Programming

In many cases, using pre-configured software is not possible because there are just too many possibilities of how input could look like. Although matsim is not there yet, these should be api-only use cases, i.e. they should only use the "stable" api.  Therefore, the following are under the api-users section of the documentation:

• Additional information about network generation is here.
• additional information about initial demand generation is here.

Information concerning specific scenarios

The following sections contains various information for building a scenario that presumably goes beyond what is in the tutorial.