Multi-Agent Transport Simulation
Seminar 1
Contact
Seminar Monday, 14:15 – 15:45
Janek Laudan
laudan@tu-berlin.de
Lecture Monday, 16:15 – 17:45
Prof. Dr. Kai Nagel
nagel@vsp.tu-berlin.de
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Plan for today
Organizational Matters
Tools
Setting up technical pre-requisits
Goal for today:
• Clone a Matsim Set Up
• Run a simple scenario
• Look at the scenario in Via
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Organizational Matters - Platforms
Isis
• Information
• Communication
• Slides
• Materials
• (Actually most of what you need from us)
GitHub
• Source Code
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Organizaitonal Matters - Interaction
Lecture
Exercise
Hands-on assistance (Sprechstunde)
• We’ll have to work out together what works best
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Organizational Matters - Language
Slides and tutorials will be provided in English
Languages in the exam: English or German
• If any doubts about wording or meaning the English version prevails
Class language: Usually English except there are only German
natives
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Organizational Matters - Examination
This class has a Points translate into grades as
Portfolioprüfung follows
Please register in MOSES until
May 22nd
If MOSES does not work for
you, please hand in your
manual registration by then
You may reach 100 points in
this class
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Organizational Matters - Examination
Type Date Points
Homework 1 ? 13
Presentation of Homework 1 ? ? 20
Homework 2 ? 34
Written exam 18.7.2021, 14:00 33
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Tools
MATSim (https://matsim.org/)
Java (https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-
downloads.html) or (https://jdk.java.net/17/)
GitHub (https://github.com)
Travis (https://travis-ci.com/)
Commandline
Simunto Via (https://www.simunto.com/via/download)
Potentially GIS tools
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Setting up - Intellij
Download IntelliJ or an IDE of your choice
• https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/?fromIDE=#section=wind
ows
• The community version is sufficient
• Students are eligible for a pro license
(https://www.jetbrains.com/community/education/#students)
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Setting up - Via
Download Via (https://www.simunto.com/via/download)
You also need a license which you can find on ISIS
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Setting up – get a GitHub Account
Sign up on Github
(https://github.com/join?ref_cta=Sign+up&ref_loc=header+logge
d+out&ref_page=%2F&source=header-home)
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MATSim – Set up
Get your matsim-example-
project-ready
• https://github.com/matsim-
org/matsim-example-project
• Fork the project
• Copy the ‘Clone-URL’ from the
forked repository
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MATSim – Set up
Clone the project onto your computer in IntelliJ
• File -> New -> Project from Version Control…
• Paste the Github URL
• Hit next/Ok until finished
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MATSim – Run the Simulation
In IntelliJ run the MATSimGUI
class located in org.matsim.gui
Right Click on main and select
run
To avoid OTFVis to open
automatically, remove it from
the RunMatsim class (I‘ll show
this)
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MATSim – Run the Simulation
Inside the MATSim Gui choose
a configuration file
• We’ll use the simple
scenario bundled with the
project
This will run 10 iterations -
You’ll see a lot of output in
the output panel
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MATSim - Output
Have a look at the output
folder of the our matsim run
We are going to use the events
file and the network to visualize
what happened during the
simulation
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MATSim – Visualize Results
Open via
Drag and drop the events and
the network file into the panel
on the left
Click on the plus on the bottom
and add the network as visual
layer
Do the same for Vehicles from
events
• Here you need to load the
data as well
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Wrapping up
Time for things which are unclear
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