MacroSim - A macroscopic Mobsim for MATSim

The simulation of large-scale scenarios requires high-performance simulations. MATSim, an agent-based transport simulation, is increasingly reaching limits. The traditional approach is to scale the scenarios, i.e. simulating only 10% of a population instead of 100%. This paper suggests MacroSim, a macroscopic mobility simulation module for MATSim, to overcome the current per- formance limits within MATSim. It uses volume-delay functions to estimate travel times for links based on experienced usages of these links. This allows to decouple agents and thus allows a parallelization of the mobility simulation within MATSim per design. A preliminary implementation of MacroSim showed promising results (7 to 50 times faster than the current mobility simulation depending on the scenario size). Given its limitations - most important no back propagation of traffic congestion - MacroSim is suggested as a complementary mobility simulation to the current implementation for cases where scenario size and simulation performance are more important than precise traffic dynamics.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.406
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050917310827
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Patrick M. Bösch and Francesco Ciari. Published by Elsevier B.V. 6th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS)
• Authors:
  • Bösch, Patrick M
  • Ciari, Francesco
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 861-868
• Serial:
  • Procedia Computer Science
  • Volume: 109
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0509
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770509
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobility; Simulation; Traffic volume; Travel time
• Identifier Terms: MATSim (Computer program)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01642659
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 13 2017 12:36PM