Multi-agent Simulation-based Virtual Test Bed Ecosystem: MATSim-NYC

One of the missions of C2SMART is to help cities around the country better understand the transferability of transportation technologies. For this purpose, two yearlong projects were initiated from 2018 – 2020 to initiate a new virtual test bed ecosystem: (1) 2018 – 2019: Phase I: Open Source Multi-Agent Virtual Simulation Testbed and (2) 2019 – 2020: Phase II: Development and Tech Transfer of Multi-Agent Simulation Testbed. This report covers the findings of both years’ projects. The objective of these two projects is to develop an initial architecture and virtual test bed that can be replicated in future projects to other cities in the C2SMART consortium and partners. The vision is for a “Network of Living Labs”, which is tentatively dubbed as C2SMART’s “NOLL-Edge” system. Its goal is to be used by city agencies to evaluate emerging technologies and operating policies using a consistent platform so that their effects can be quantified. In the long term, cities may opt to use this test bed as a means of certification for policies and technologies (e.g. NOLL-Edge-certified that policy A can achieve X% welfare improvement in NYC or reduce congestion by Y% for population segments 1, 2, 3, etc.). Based on this overarching goal, the authors set out on these two projects with the following set of objectives: (1) Create an underlying synthetic population for NYC for a recent base year (2016) that includes key emerging modes like Citi Bike and for-hire vehicles (FHVs) like Uber/Lyft/Via; (2) Construct, calibrate, and validate a MATSim model of NYC using the synthetic population; (3) Use the synthetic population and MATSim models to evaluate a set of scenarios for which existing tools are not equipped; and (4) Exploration of other features of MATSim: mobility-on-demand-based autonomous vehicle fleets, bike-share, multimodal travel, and more realistic traffic flow modeling on the links.

• Dataset URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4082007
• Record URL:
  https://c2smart.engineering.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Development-of-an-open-source-multi-agent-virtual-simulation-test-bed-for-evaluating-emerging-transportation-technologies-and-policies.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/59184
• Dataset URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61971
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Supporting datasets available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4082007; https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61971
• Corporate Authors:

  C2SMART Connected Cities with Smart Transportation

  NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  Department of Civil and Urban Engineering
  Brooklyn, NY  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Chow, Joseph Y J
  • 0000-0002-6471-3419
  • Ozbay, Kaan
  • 0000-0001-7909-6532
  • He, Yueshuai
  • 0000-0002-5794-7751
  • Zhou, Jinkai
  • 0000-0002-1563-1329
  • Lee, Mina
  • 0000-0002-4945-4738
  • Wang, Ding
  • 0000-0002-2398-1409
  • Sha, Di
• Publication Date: 2020-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 95p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Calibration; Cities; Forecasting; Policy analysis; Population; Ridesourcing; Simulation; Technological innovations; Traffic flow; Vehicle sharing
• Identifier Terms: MATSim (Computer program)
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01769079
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 5 2021 10:55AM