News from MATSim

New MATSim Association Membership Signup Is Live

2026-03-16T00:00:00Z

The MATSim Association now has a dedicated online signup system for memberships.

The new flow covers:

individual, small-team, and large-team memberships,
online payment through Payrexx or bank-transfer invoicing,
immediate invoice generation,
integrated data-protection information for applicants.

If you want to support the long-term maintenance and development of MATSim, you can now sign up directly via the new membership page.

You can find more background on the Association on the association page and the current data-protection notice on the GDPR page.

Model-based Environmental Exposure Sciences (MBEES) - Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d), Faculty of Medicine

2026-02-09T00:00:00Z

At the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Augsburg, at the Chair of Model-based Environmental Exposure Sciences (MBEES), a position is available from 1 August 2026 at the earliest, for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) to be filled at 100% of the regular working hours in a fixed-term appointment for one year. Remuneration will be in accordance with pay grade E13 TV-L, subject to the fulfillment of personal and collective bargaining requirements.

The advertised position is embedded in the EU Horizon project PUREPOLIS. PUREPOLIS is an ambitious European research project aiming to improve urban health through the development of advanced, data-driven, and participatory tools. Multiple environmental exposures (air, noise, water, soil) are linked to health risks in order to optimize zero-pollution strategies for cities. To this end, PUREPOLIS integrates real-time monitoring, health impact assessments, digital twins, and dynamic policy tools. The project involves 19 partners from 9 European countries, with MBEES being one of the project partners.

Your Responsibilities:

Establishment and application of an agent-based model (e.g., MATSim or an in-house Python implementation) to represent the daily activities of the entire population in the project case studies Nantes (France) and Valencia (Spain)
Calculation of population-based environmental exposures to air pollutants and noise based on agent-based modeling
Collaboration with epidemiology partners to estimate population-wide health burdens
Integration of the agent-based model into a dynamic intervention and scenario assessment tool to evaluate mitigation strategies for policy and administrative decision-makers
Active participation in a large European collaborative research project with regular scientific exchange
Participation in project meetings and presentation of results at national and international conferences
Publication of research results in international, peer-reviewed scientific journals

Link to full description

Researcher/PhD position: System-Level Impact Analysis of Innovative Air Mobility (IAM) using Agent-Based Models

2026-01-21T00:00:00Z

Are you interested in transport models and simulations, in particular MATSim?

Are you interested in the flying taxis?

Are you interested in mobility survey and data analysis?

Then please have a look at our new Researcher/PhD position at the Chair of Mobility System Planning (MSP) at TU Dresden within the scope of the DFG-funded Research Project AirMetro (Technological & Operational Integration of Highly Automated Air Transport in Urban Areas)!

MOIA is looking for a working student | November 2025

2025-11-12T00:00:00Z

MOIA’s Mobility Consulting team combines mobility research, empirical data, models and simulations to provide a comprehensive understanding of our ride-pooling service in Hamburg and beyond. We use diverse (open) data and state-of-the-art technologies to define the mid- and long-term development of MOIA in the mobility system.

We are looking for a candidate who will help us improve, extend or apply our MATSim-based simulation pipelines and tools. For more information visit here (Berlin) or here (Hamburg)

We are also accepting students based in Munich.

Researcher/PhD position: Modeling active mobility (cycling and walking) in MATSim

2025-09-16T00:00:00Z

Are you interested in transport models and simulations, in particular MATSim?

Would you like to take care that active mobility (cycling and walking) can be better and more realistically captured in large-scale transport simulation?

Are you confident in processing mobility data and programing, and would you like to do a PhD in agent-based modeling of cycling and walking?

Then please have a look at our new Researcher/PhD position at the DLR Institute of Transport Research in Berlin within the scope of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center AgiMo (Data-drive agile planning for responsible mobility).

Post-Doctoral Research Associate at ECMR (UAE University)

2025-08-19T00:00:00Z

The Emirates Center for Mobility Research (ECMR) at UAE University is seeking highly motivated and qualified candidates for the position of Post-Doctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will contribute to cutting-edge research in mobility systems, smart transportation technologies, and sustainable transport solutions. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and policymakers to tackle real-world transportation challenges and support the UAE’s strategic goals in sustainable and future mobility.

Minimum Qualification

PhD degree in Transportation Engineering or a closely related field.

Preferred Qualification

PhD degree in Transportation Engineering, Civil Engineering, or related field with demonstrated expertise in transportation modeling and simulation.

Expected Skills and Responsibilities

The Research Associate is expected to:

Conduct advanced research in one or more of the following areas: agent-based modeling, smart cities, sustainable transportation, traffic systems, electric vehicles, and connected transport networks.
Develop and apply agent-based transport simulation models, with hands-on experience in MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) strongly preferred.
Build models, algorithms, and simulations for real-world transportation planning and policy analysis.
Collaborate on interdisciplinary projects with faculty, industry experts, and government stakeholders.
Assist and co-supervise PhD and Masters students in transportation research.
Prepare and publish high-quality research papers in peer-reviewed journals and present at international conferences.
Contribute to grant proposals and engage with funding agencies.
Mentor graduate and undergraduate students involved in mobility research projects.
Support the Center’s outreach and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Aid in the Center’s administrative duties, including preparing marketing material, conducting follow-up meetings with potential clients and partners, writing formal letters, and obtaining necessary approvals.
Monitor and manage project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.

Application

If you meet the above criteria, please share your CV at:

TU Braunschweig is hiring two PhD researchers

2025-07-17T00:00:00Z

The Institute of Transportation and Urban Engineering (IVS) at Technische Universität Braunschweig is currently offering two fully funded PhD positions focusing on simulation-based analysis using MATSim. Each position addresses a distinct research topic related to future transport systems:

1. Agent-Based Simulation of Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) in Rural Areas

This position focuses on modeling and evaluating flexible, demand-responsive public transport services in rural and peri-urban contexts. MATSim is used to simulate how DRT systems, possibly operated with automated vehicles, can be integrated into public transport networks in order to improve accessibility and sustainability. The project involves close collaboration with local and regional transport authorities to ensure practical relevance and real-world applicability of the findings.

Full job ad (PDF)

2. Agent-Based Simulation of Integrated Passenger and Freight Transport Systems

As part of the newly established interdisciplinary research group ReSpace! – Connected Response-able Spaces and Infrastructures for Sustainable Living at TU Braunschweig, this project focuses on the agent-based simulation of future transport systems that integrate passenger and freight flows. ReSpace! is part of the “Ecoversity” initiative and funded by zukunft.niedersachsen, a joint program of the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the VolkswagenStiftung. Using MATSim, the research investigates how multifunctional hubs, modular vehicle fleets, and digitally connected infrastructures can enable dynamic coordination strategies to improve efficiency, accessibility, and resilience under conditions of climate change and spatial constraints.

Full job ad (PDF)

Application deadline: August 2025

If you are interested, please check the job adverts linked above. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

MATSim AWS Example Setup Repository Published

2025-07-15T00:00:00Z

At MOIA, we have been using AWS cloud resources for the simulation of MATSim models for quite some time. Over time, we came up with a reproducible setup using infrastructure as code.

A multi-purpose version of that setup has recently been published under our open source account: https://github.com/moia-oss/matsim-aws

It includes (among others):

setting up storage resources (AWS S3) for input and executable jars
identity access roles
compute environments

The setup creates a docker image which takes care of the syncing input and jar files, running the simulation and writing the output back to AWS S3.

You only need to bring your simulation jar, input and an AWS account. A full working example based on the ‘equil’ scenario is provided. Just run the three scripts as described in the readme.

We are happy to receive feedback. PRs and further development on the public repo are welcome!

PhD Position at ETH Zurich

2025-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Chair of Infrastructure Management, led by Professor Dr. Bryan T. Adey, in the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering has an opening for a PhD student in model-based planning support for transport and urban systems under uncertainty.

The goal of this doctorate is to advance the state-of-the-art of model-based planning support for transport and urban systems under uncertainty. The doctorate will develop new tools and methods that integrate large-scale agent-based modelling, surrogate modelling, scenario planning, and sequential decision analytics. The research conducted during the doctorate will improve the long-term planning of urban and transport systems in Switzerland in close collaboration with the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility (CSFM) and the Chair of Risk, Safety, and Uncertainty Quantification at ETH Zürich. The main contributions of this research will be: 1) integrate both qualitative foresight scenario planning and quantitative scenario simulation workflows; 2) develop new spatially explicit surrogate models that enable the use of large-scale agent-based models for the simulation of a wide range of future scenarios, and 3) advance the use of sequential decision analytics (e.g., reinforcement learning or stochastic optimisation) to identify optimal adaptive plans.

To read in more detail about this position and to apply, please go to PhD Position Description.

MATSim User Meeting North America

2025-07-10T00:00:00Z

We are happy to announce that the MATSim Users Meeting in North America will be held on September 2nd in Montreal on the campus of Polytechnique Montreal. All the relevant information can be found here: MUMMontreal2025.

For additional information, please get in touch with Francesco Ciari at francesco.ciari@polymtl.ca.

FreighTSim 2025 in Berlin on September 16, 2025

2025-07-09T00:00:00Z

We are pleased to announce the 3rd International Symposium on Multi-Agent Freight Transport Simulation (FreighTSim) on September 16, 2025 in Berlin.
As with the previous symposia, it will be jointly organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin).

We are now accepting submissions of extended abstracts that should describe your recent work. For more information, please visit the FreighTSim website.

Changes in MATSim from the Code Sprint 2025

2025-03-31T00:00:00Z

In the last week of March 2025, 14 MATSim developers from various institutes and companies came together in Berlin for a week of discussions and coding. At this week-long event, the following decisions and changes were made:

Renaming the default git-branch to main. For a few years now, the git-community uses main as the name of the default branch in new repositories. We now follow this convention and have renamed the previous master branch to main.
Squashing for Pull Requests. When merging changes from contributors, the branches were merged into the main branch using a merge commit, keeping all individual commits of the merged branch. This lead to sometimes very complex and nested commit histories, making it harder to understand what actually changed. We now decided to use sqashing by default when merging PRs. This will result in a single commit for all the changes being merged, which will result in a much shorter and hopefully cleaner commit history of our large project.
Use Conventional Commit messages. For the PRs, we now suggest to use the so-called conventional commit message format. Together with the squashed commits, we hope to be able to provide the often-requested changelog for new releases in the future.
Better support forum. For the past few years, we used GitHub’s issue tracker to answer support requests. As the interaction capabilities for the issues were limited for a support forum, we now decided to start using GitHub Discussions instead. You can reach the new support forum using the stable URL www.matsim.org/faq.
Remove deprecated and outdated code. We removed several methods and classes that were marked as deprecated for a few years already in order to clean up our code base. We plan to do this more often in the future, so if you use MATSim to write some code, please adapt your code regularly if you use deprecated constructs. In addition, outdated and/or unmaintained packages like jdeqsim and lanes were or will be removed.

TUM is looking for a PhD and Postdoc

2025-03-12T00:00:00Z

SEE-FAr is a joint project between the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and DFG (German Research Foundation) which aims to evaluate the complex impact of freight vehicles automation and electrification distinguishing the charging options between e-roads and plug-in to promote decarbonized and cost efficient freight transportation in Austria and Bavaria.

At least the DFG part will heavily depend on MATSim.

This project involves a close collaboration between DAVeMoS, BOKU University, Austria, and Transportation System Engineering (TSE) chair of the Technical University Munich, Germany. The project is expected to start in May 2025. The employment starting date is negotiable.

Further information of the post can be found at:
For the postdoc position: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/321722
For the PhD position: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/321718

MATSim User Meeting 2025

2025-02-21T00:00:00Z

MATSim Association is happy to announce that the MATSim User Meeting 2025 will be held in conjunction with the 13th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2025) at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

The user meeting will run over two days, June 12-13, 2025.

The Annual General Meeting of the MATSim Association will be held in conjunction with the user meeting at 12pm CET on the 13th of June 2025.

We are now accepting submissions of 2-3 pages extended abstracts that should describe your recent MATSim work. To register for the event, and to submit your abstract, please visit the MUM 2025 page.

MOIA is looking for a working student

2025-02-13T00:00:00Z

We are looking for a technical candidate who will help us improve and extend our MATSim-based simulation pipelines and tools. For more information visit here (Berlin) or here (Hamburg)

New Public MATSim Tutorial!

2025-01-02T00:00:00Z

If you are interested to learn MATSim, the team of the TU Berlin published the latest MATSim tutorial! The tutorial provides a step-by-step installation and usage guide for creating your own scenario and policy cases. It does not always go too much into detail (as it is usually taught in a very responsive way in a classroom), so if you need more details about a certain topic, please also consult the MATSim book and MATSim user guide.

Additionally, the course contains recorded videos of the lecture and the seminars.

Go to tutorials: General Tutorials

ETH is looking for two PostDocs

2024-12-11T00:00:00Z

We are looking for two motivated PostDoc researchers to join the Center for Sustainable Future Mobility at ETH to bring agent-based and activity-based transport models into practice through innovation and close collaboration with practitioners. If you are interested, look at the two job adverts below, and if you have questions, please contact me (Milos Balac, balacm@ethz.ch).

You can find more details in the job postings: PostDoc-1 and PostDoc-2.

MATSim User Meeting Japan 2024

2024-12-03T00:00:00Z

The first MATSim User Meeting in Japan took place on 21 November 2024, hosted by Prof. Giancarlo Parady at the University of Tokyo. We were honored to have MATSim co-founder Prof. Em. Kay W. Axhausen as the keynote speaker, who provided an overview of MATSim’s current state and future development goals. It was exciting to see the growing interest in MATSim in Japan, with presentations featuring both research and industry applications of MATSim in the region.

Find the presentations from the meeting here.

For more information, connect with us on LinkedIn and join the MATSim Association.

IRT SystemX: Research on mobility and energy systems

2024-10-14T00:00:00Z

IRT SystemX is looking for motivated candidates for a full-time researcher position around agent-based transport simulation. The main topics will focus on the interplay between transport and energy systems for logistics and passenger mobility. MATSim development and/or user skills are appreciated! Please find aditional details in the job posting.

KTH is looking for a PhD student

2024-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Department of Urban Planning and Environment at KTH is seeking a highly qualified candidate in the field of Transportation. The applicant will research innovative solutions for urban transportation to address crucial challenges such as economic viability, accessibility, equity, and pressing environmental goals. The project will focus on policy design and evaluation for passenger transportation through agent-based simulation or simulation-based optimization for last-mile logistics, as well as the design of efficient mobility services and their implications for sustainable urban systems.

You can find more details in the job postings in English.

New Website!

2024-08-08T00:00:00Z

If you read this post, than you will likely have noticed that the MATSim website looks different. We are happy to present the new MATSim website!

Besides a visual refresh, the new website offers a variety of improvements:

Mobile friendly! Finally you are able to read the MATSim website also on mobile devices with smaller screens.
Better differentiation between News and Job offers. We are happy to see so many job openings that apply to people with strong MATSim skills, but the not-job-related news kind of got lost in the old site.
Show cases from industry users of MATSim. The number of MATSim users outside of academia is steadily growing for many years now, but this fact was not very well known — until now.
More information about the MATSim Association.

We hope you enjoy the new site!

TU Dresden is looking for predoc or postdoc with MATSim Knowhow [Updated 2024-08-23]

2024-05-22T00:00:00Z

TU Dresden is looking for a predoc or postdoc in the field of research based on MATSim simulations.

You can find more details in the job postings in English or German.

Augment City is looking for a Senior Mobility Engineer

2024-02-22T00:00:00Z

We are OSC and AugmentCity, a pioneering technology company specialising in developing advanced simulators and simulations with cutting-edge visualisations. Our mission is to empower engineers, operators, and decision-makers to mitigate risk, test innovative solutions, and explore new opportunities through powerful simulations and visualisations. Our product portfolio includes Ocean, focusing on intricate simulations above and below water, and AugmentCity, dedicated to creating sustainable cities through digital twins.

We are seeking a Senior Mobility Engineer with a strong background in MATSim to join our team and contribute to the development of our high-end open-world simulation. As a key member, you will play a vital role in shaping our mobility simulation infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency in collaboration with our cloud platform.

Link to position.

MATSim User Meeting 2024

2024-02-02T00:00:00Z

MATSim Association is happy to announce that the MATSim User Meeting 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 12th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2024) in Espoo, Finland. A full-day meeting will be held one day before the hEART conference, on 17.06.

We are now accepting submissions of 2-3 pages extended abstracts that should describe your recent MATSim work:

Submission page

Submission page will remain open until 31.03.2024!

Registration will be possible towards the end of March at the hEART 2024 website: Registration page.

If you have not done so already, we would like you to consider becoming a member of the MATSim Association and ensure the timely further development of MATSim: MATSim Association.

MATSim at FOSDEM 2024

2024-01-29T00:00:00Z

Joschka Bischoff (SBB) will present the MATSim project and the integration of Open Source Software at SBB, as well as some of the model applications at FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels (3 & 4 February, 2024). The presentation will be part of the “Railways and Open Transport devroom”, set to take place on Saturday. We look forward to seeing you there.

Postdoc on Simulation Optimization with MATSim

2024-01-22T00:00:00Z

Open postdoc position with MATSim case studies. Research focuses on simulation-based optimization, uncertainty quantification, and Bayesian optimization to tackle continuous simulation-based optimization problems that arise in urban mobility. Details about the application process can be found at: carolinaosorio.net.

Post-doctoral fellow position - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

2023-12-18T00:00:00Z

We are searching for a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to join our team at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The successful applicant will work on active transport (walking, cycling and e-bike) modelling with MATSim to further advance our MATSim model for Melbourne and regional cities. To learn more and apply please visit the advert here.

BVG is looking for data analysts

2023-09-01T00:00:00Z

The main public transport company of Berlin, BVG, is looking for data analysts to do transport modeling with MATSim and/or VISUM. Please have a look here for the full position description.

PhD position at Volkswagen Group Innovation

2023-08-31T00:00:00Z

Please look here for the full position description.

Transport Modelling Specialist (m/f/d) - Mobility Analytics at MOIA

2023-08-31T00:00:00Z

The Mobility Analytics team combines mobility research, empirical data, models and simulations to provide a comprehensive understanding of our ride-pooling service in Hamburg and beyond. We use diverse (open) data and state-of-the-art technologies to define the mid- and long-term development of MOIA in the mobility system.

We are looking for a technical candidate who will help us improve and extend our MATSim-based simulation pipelines and tools. For more information visit here (Berlin) or here (Hamburg)

Internship: Software Development for Mobility Models

2023-08-20T00:00:00Z

You ever wanted to know how mobility services at Volkswagen, like AD Ride Pooling/Hailing, are strategically assessed in terms of environmental and economical aspects?

Join our team for a internship position in transport and demand modelling at Volkswagen Group Strategy. here.

PhD position at IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN)

2023-07-12T00:00:00Z

An emerging approach is expected to change the way of designing and assessing the future mobility of people and goods. Whether it will be more electrified, connected, automated, digitalized, or not, it will depend on which targets we aim to reach at given time horizons: environmental, economic, societal, etc. In the new paradigm, these targets will be set first, then the most appropriate roadmap of policies and technologies needed will be established (“backcasting”), as opposed to the current approach where potential actions are assumed, then their impacts are “forecasted” and assessed. Backcasting can be seen as a dynamic optimization process (optimal control). It will be enabled by the availability of a system dynamic model that describes mobility systems in very macroscopic terms yet capable of representing all causality loops linking the policies sought to the impacts expected.

This doctoral topic represents the first building block of such an ambitious research program, as it targets a system dynamic model of the transportation network subsystem. A precise definition of manipulable and exogenous input, internal dynamic states, as well as of significant output variables, shall be the result of a preliminary, System Dynamics analysis. To identify and quantify the causal dependencies between these variables, a multimodal transportation network simulator (e.g., MatSim) will be used. Simulation experiments will be designed and run. The corresponding inputs and outputs variables will be used to construct surrogate models (the most suitable technique is to be identified) and tune their parameters, to provide the quantitative dependencies sought. The analysis will focus on different scenarios, to anticipate the effects of exogenous variables. Different networks or territorial scales will be attempted as well, to investigate the variability of the transfer functions identified and their scalability.

Doctoral School: ED580 - STIC Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication

Supervisor: Dr. Antonio SCIARRETTA, IFP Energies nouvelles, antonio.sciarretta@ifpen.fr

PhD location: IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Duration and start date: 3 years, starting in fourth quarter 2023

Employer: IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Academic requirements: University Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering, Information Engineering, or Artificial Inteligence

Language requirements: Fluency in English or French, willingness to learn French

To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to Dr. Antonio SCIARRETTA.

Ph.D. position

2023-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ph.D. scholarship using MATSim in urban freight

The KU Leuven Institute for Mobility has a funded scholarship opening for a full-time four-year Ph.D. to do state-of-the-art research in urban freight modeling using agent-based simulation. As cities grow and authorities aim to densify the urban core, the demand for goods and services and the amount of waste and recyclables generated also densify. The research you will be doing aims to develop and evaluate innovative solutions that capture the behaviorally rich and dynamic interactions between the different urban freight stakeholders who all share the same road space: the businesses involved in producing, shipping, carrying, and receiving the goods, the city authorities, and the community at large.

The Ph.D. project will build on prior work we’ve done in MATSim in this field. You can find more information about the scholarship and the link for applications on the formal KU Leuven posting.

The deadline for applications is 30 June 2023. For further queries, contact Johan W. Joubert.

MATSim User Meeting 2023

2023-02-06T00:00:00Z

We are happy to announce that MATSim User Meeting in 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2023). A full day meeting will be held one day before the hEART conference on 05.09. at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. We are now accepting submissions of 1-2 pages extended abstracts that should describe your recent MATSim work:

Submission page

Submission page is now closed!

You can see the program and register at:

Registration and Program

Job Posting: Mobility Data Analyst Autonomous Driving MaaS Simulation

2022-11-27T00:00:00Z

Volkswagen is looking for a Mobility Simulation Expert in order to integrate Operational Design Domain (ODD) requirements of AD-MaaS in large scale mobility simulations. More information can be found here.

MATSim Association

2022-10-04T00:00:00Z

About a month ago, the long spoken-of MATSim Association was founded and is now looking for interested parties and members.

Learn more about the MATSim Association.

Job posting SBB

2022-05-10T00:00:00Z

Bern Wankdorf / Work Smart, 01.09.2022, 60-100%

Du hast die Chance, bei der Anwendung und dem Betrieb eines aktivitäten- und agentenbasierten Verkehrsmodells mitzuwirken, welches auf dem neusten Stand von Praxis und Forschung basiert. Mit diesen Modellergebnissen lieferst du einen massgebenden Beitrag für Entscheidungen über zukünftige Ausbauten des Bahn-, resp. ÖV-Angebots in der Schweiz.

Fühlst du dich angesprochen? Hier geht’s zur Bewerbung

Position as researcher / PhD student / TU Dresden

2022-03-08T00:00:00Z

To contribute to research around topics of agent-based transport simulation (in particular, but not limited to: sustainable mobility, active mobility, open-data-based model development, accessibility analyses and land-use/transport interaction), the Chair Integrated Transport Planning at TU Dresden is hiring a researcher / PhD student.

For details, see here:

https://www.verw.tu-dresden.de/StellAus/download.asp?file=03-2022\Gerike_WIMI_eng_040222_w056.pdf

Job opportunity at BOKU in Vienna

2022-02-10T00:00:00Z

Job opportunity for MATSim community in Vienna: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/739651 .

ABM Modelling job opportunity in UAE

2022-02-10T00:00:00Z

CDM Smith engineering company is offering a job opportunity in UAE for two modelling experts with activity-based as well as agent-based modelling experience. Here are the job descriptions:

Modelling Specialist 1: The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of experience developing tour-based activity-driven transport models and freight modeling. Experience with DSTM Is for this role; and
Modeling Specialist 2: The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in transport modeling. Experience In the development of agent-based activity-driven transport modeling is a must for this role. Experience with use of agent-based activity driven transport model for the assessment of new form of transport technologies and services Is desirable for this role;

Key Requirements:

Demonstrated experience working on multidisciplinary transport projects, with medium and high complexity;
Strong understanding of theoretical transport modelling concepts and application. Participate In the development and application of the strategic transportation models;
Transport model development with tasks Including but not limited to model building, calibration/validation, model testing and auditing, checking and analysis of model outputs;
Good experience with the latest methodologies, processes and software packages (VISUM, CUBE, etc);
Model development experience both traditional activity-based models and agent-based models;
Hands-on experience in development and preparation of travel daily survey and SP design;
Experience in analysis and Interpretation of outputs from transport modelling software packages;

The contract person for further information on these positions is Dr. Afaf Al Azzawi, Transportation & Traffic Manager at CDM Smith. alazzawia@cdmsmith.com

MATSim User Meeting 2022

2021-12-03T00:00:00Z

We are happy to announce that MATSim User Meeting in 2022 will be held in conjunction with the 10th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2022). A full day meeting will be held on 31.05. at KU Leuven, Belgium. We are now accepting submissions of 1-2 pages extended abstracts that should describe your recent MATSim work:

Submission page

Submissions page will close on 07.03. at 11:59 CET.

If you plan to attend the meeting (either as an author, co-author, or attendee) there is a registration fee of 55 CHF to cover for the venue and food expenses (coffees and food). You can register at the following link:

Registration page

Preliminary schedule

Any questions or comments you can direct to matsimum2022@gmail.com

Job posting SBB

2021-10-04T00:00:00Z

Machen Sie was Grosses. Bewegen Sie mit uns die Schweiz als

Mobilitätsexperte/-expertin mit Fokus Simulationen und Mobilitätsszenarien

at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

Bern Bollwerk / Work Smart, ab 01.01.2022 oder nach Vereinbarung, 80-100%, Job ID 53801

Weitere Informationen zur Stellenausschreibung finden sich hier.

Job Posting: Transport Model Development Intern, Berlin

2021-06-08T00:00:00Z

Teralytics uses data from telecommunication networks to provide mobility insights.

In this internship, you will be part of a small product-focused team, working to release a new software and data product to market. MATSim is used as part of the computation pipeline, making this a great opportunity to get experience in using agent-based models in customer-facing products.

More information and applications on the job posting’s page on Teralytics’ website.

For more information, feel free to reach out to Thibaut Dubernet

PhD position at IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN)

2021-06-08T00:00:00Z

Estimating traffic-related energy consumption and pollutant emissions is a complex problem that is relevant for a wide range of problems, from planning to operations. In particular, energy efficiency and pollution metrics play a fundamental role in the environmental impact assessment of new technologies, such as smart cities or connected, cooperative, and autonomous mobility, in order to evaluate new algorithms or the impact of upcoming products.

Besides the characteristics of the road network, the key role in determining these environmental metrics is played by the speed trajectories followed by the vehicles in the network. Most of existing methods provide only mean-value estimations per road-link. However, mean speed is largely insufficient to capture the dynamic behavior that is responsible for local peaks and affects substantially the total amount. Therefore instantaneous speed profile (ISP) estimation is needed on the various road-links that compose the road network considered.

The approach proposed consists of (i) generating mobility data with a “mesoscopic” traffic simulator (MATSim) using a limited amount of publicly available information, (ii) using the average speed/flows calculated as the input of an ISP estimator, (iii) evaluating the ISP per road-link fulfilling these averages and satisfying spatial and time correlation. Overall, the proposed approach would fill the existing gap between macroscopic data and instantaneous/local consumptions and emissions.

Once the coupling made, possible applications of the approach should be tested. To this purpose, a case study shall be defined, modeled, and analyzed. A baseline scenario should be defined from a current situation in a chosen road network (at a region or urban area level). Then changes in the infrastructure, in the car fleet, in the mobility offer could be analyzed and benefits in terms of energy consumption and local emissions could be evaluated.

Doctoral School: ED580 - STIC Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication

Supervisor: Dr. Antonio SCIARRETTA, IFP Energies nouvelles, antonio.sciarretta@ifpen.fr

Co- supervisor: Dr. Milos BALAC, Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, milos.balac@ivt.baug.ethz.ch

PhD location: IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Duration and start date: 3 years, starting in fourth quarter 2021

Employer: IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Academic requirements: University Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering, Information Engineering, Dynamical Systems or Control Science

Language requirements: Fluency in English. Fluency in, or willingness to learn, French

To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to the IFPEN supervisor indicated here above.

Research assistant/PhD candidate position at Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, TU Berlin (III)

2021-05-27T00:00:00Z

[For English please see below]

Im Rahmen verschiedener Forschungsprojekte im Umfeld der Verkehrsmodellierung mit MATsim suchen wir Verstärkung für unser Team.
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (d/m/w) - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
Teilzeitbeschäftigung ist ggf. möglich
Fakultät V - Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr / FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik Kennziffer: V-279/21 (besetzbar ab sofort / befristet bis 31.03.2024, Verlängerung wird angestrebt / Bewerbungsfristende 18.06.2021)

Aufgabenbeschreibung:

Mitarbeit nach Interesse in verschiedenen Forschungsprojekten im Bereich der Modellierung von CO2-freiem Verkehr, autonomen Fahrzeugen und Virusdynamik.
Mitarbeit am Fachgebiet in Forschung sowie Unterstützung der Lehre.
Weiterentwicklung von Multiagentensimulationsmodellen in MATSim.
Zusammenarbeit mit nationalen und internationalen Partnern.

In Verbindung mit der ausgeschriebenen Tätigkeit ist die Durchführung einer Promotion möglich und ausdrücklich erwünscht.

Erwartete Qualifikationen:

Erfolgreich abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium (Diplom, Master oder Äquivalent) in Planung und Betrieb im Verkehrswesen oder vergleichbar oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen oder Informatik.
Erfahrungen mit Simulationswerkzeugen.
Gute Programmierkenntnisse, vorzugsweise in Java.
Gute Englisch- oder Deutschkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift. Gute analytische Fähigkeiten, Teamfähigkeit.
Interesse am Thema.

Erwünscht:

Erfahrungen im Umgang mit der Simulationssoftware MATSim.
Erfahrungen mit der Benutzung von Versionierungs- und Shared-Programming-Infrastrukturen, z.B. Git/GitHub oder SVN.
Erfahrungen mit größeren Programmierprojekten.
Kenntnisse bzgl. der Kalibrierung von Simulationsszenarien.
Multidisziplinäre Ausrichtung.

Mit der Abgabe einer Onlinebewerbung geben Sie als Bewerber*in Ihr Einverständnis, dass Ihre Daten elektronisch verarbeitet und gespeichert werden. Wir weisen darauf hin, dass bei ungeschützter Übersendung Ihrer Bewerbung auf elektronischem Wege keine Gewähr für die Sicherheit übermittelter persönlicher Daten übernommen werden kann. Datenschutzrechtliche Hinweise zur Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten gem. DSGVO finden Sie auf der Webseite der Personalabteilung oder Direktzugang: 214041.

Zur Wahrung der Chancengleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern sind Bewerbungen von Frauen mit der jeweiligen Qualifikation ausdrücklich erwünscht. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Die TU Berlin schätzt die Vielfalt Ihrer Mitglieder und verfolgt die Ziele der Chancengleichheit.

Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - Fakultät V, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Sekr. SG 12, Salzufer 17-19, 10587 Berlin

Die Stellenausschreibung ist auch im Internet abrufbar unter:
http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

English:

In the context of various research projects in the field of traffic modeling with MATSim, we are looking for a reinforcement for our team.
Research assistant - salary grade E 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
part-time employment may be possible.

Faculty V - Institute of Land and Maritime Transport / Chair of Transport System Planning and Transport Telematics Reference number: V-279/21 (starting at the earliest possible / limited until 31/03/2024, prolongation is disired / closing date for applications 18/06/21)

Working field:

Collaboration in various research projects in the field of modeling CO2-free traffic, autonomous vehicles and virus dynamics.
Assisting the department in research as well as teaching.
Further development of multi-agent simulation models in MATSim.
Collaboration with national and international partners.

In connection with the advertised position, the completion of a doctorate is possible and expressly desired.

Requirements:

Successfully completed university degree (Diplom, Master or equivalent) in transport planning or similar, industrial engineering or computer science.
Experience with simulation tools.
Good programming skills, preferably in Java.
Good English or German language skills, both written and spoken.
Good analytical skills.
Team spirit.
Interest in the topic.

Desirable:

Experience in using the simulation software MATSim.
Experience with using versioning and shared programming infrastructures, e.g. Git/GitHub or SVN.
Experience with larger programming projects.
Knowledge regarding calibration of simulation scenarios.
Multidisciplinary orientation.

By submitting your application via email you consent to having your data electronically processed and saved. Please note that we do not provide a guaranty for the protection of your personal data when submitted as unprotected file. Please find our data protection notice acc. DSGVO (General Data Protection Regulation) at the TU staff department homepage or quick access 214041.

To ensure equal opportunities between women and men, applications by women with the required qualifications are explicitly desired. Qualified individuals with disabilities will be favored. The TU Berlin values the diversity of its members and is committed to the goals of equal opportunities.

Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - Fakultät V, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Sekr. SG 12, Salzufer 17-19, 10587 Berlin

The vacancy is also available on the internet at http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

Research assistant/PhD candidate position at Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, TU Berlin (II)

2021-05-27T00:00:00Z

[For English please see below]

Bei der Technischen Universität Berlin ist folgende Stelle zu besetzen:
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (d/m/w) - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
Teilzeitbeschäftigung ist ggf. möglich

Fakultät V - Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr / FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik **Kennziffer: V-280/21** (besetzbar ab sofort / befristet bis 31.12.2023, Verlängerung wird angestrebt / Bewerbungsfristende 18.06.2021)

Aufgabenbeschreibung
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit im Rahmen des BMVI-geförderten Projektes „Implementierung eines wetterunabhängigen und hochautomatisierten Ridesharing-Dienstes unter Anwendung von KI im Landkreis Kelheim als Ergänzung zum regionalen ÖPNV und zur Ermöglichung von Mobilität für eine erweiterte Zielgruppe Teilvorhaben: Simulationsgestützte Untersuchung von Verkehrs- und Umweltwirkungen“.

Koordination des obigen Forschungsprojektes.
Mitarbeit am Fachgebiet in Forschung sowie Unterstützung der Lehre.
Zusammenarbeit mit nationalen und internationalen Partnern.

In Verbindung mit der ausgeschriebenen Tätigkeit ist die Durchführung einer Promotion möglich und ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich jedoch ausdrücklich auch an bereits promovierte Interessenten.

Erwartete Qualifikationen:

Erfolgreich abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium (Diplom, Master oder Äquivalent) in Verkehrswesen, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen oder Wirtschaftswissenschaften oder vergleichbar.
Organisationstalent, Kommunikationsfähigkeiten und Durchsetzungsvermögen.
Klar erkennbare strukturierte und prozessorientierte Arbeitsweise.
Kenntnisse im Bereich der Verkehrsplanung.
Kenntnisse im Umgang mit Analysesoftware (z.B. R oder Python).
Sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift.
Gute Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift.
Gute analytische Fähigkeiten, Teamfähigkeit.
Interesse am Thema.

Vorteilhaft

Erfahrungen mit Simulationen.
Multidisziplinäre Ausrichtung.
Erfahrungen mit Java, Versionierungs- und Shared-Programming-Infrastrukturen (z.B. Git) und / oder größeren Pro- grammierprojekten.

Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte unter Angabe der Kennziffer mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schulabschlusszeugnisse, Studienabschlusszeugnisse, ggf. Arbeitszeugnisse) ausschließlich per E-Mail in einem zusammengefassten pdf-Dokument an Prof. Dr. Nagel über bewerbung@vsp.tu-berlin.de.
Mit der Abgabe einer Onlinebewerbung geben Sie als Bewerber*in Ihr Einverständnis, dass Ihre Daten elektronisch verarbeitet und gespeichert werden. Wir weisen darauf hin, dass bei ungeschützter Übersendung Ihrer Bewerbung auf elektronischem Wege keine Gewähr für die Sicherheit übermittelter persönlicher Daten übernommen werden kann. Datenschutzrechtliche Hinweise zur Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten gem. DSGVO finden Sie auf der Webseite der Personalabteilung oder Direktzugang: 214041.

Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - Fakultät V, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Sekr. SG 12, Salzufer 17-19, 10587 Berlin

Die Stellenausschreibung ist auch im Internet abrufbar unter:
http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

ENGLISH

Technische Universität Berlin offers an open position:
Research assistant - salary grade E 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
part-time employment may be possible.
Faculty V - Institute of Land and Maritime Transport / Chair of Transport System Planning and Transport Telematics Reference number: V-280/21 (starting at the earliest possible / limited until 31/12/2023, prolongation is disired / closing date for applications 18/06/21)

Working field:
Research in the context of the BMVI-funded project “Implementation of a weather-independent and highly automated ridesharing service using AI in the district of Kelheim as a complement to regional public transport and to enable mobility for an extended target group subproject: Simulation-based investigation of traffic and environmental impacts”.

Coordination of the aforementioned research project.
Assisting the department in teaching and research. Collaboration with national and international partners.

In connection with this position, the completion of a PhD is possible and explicitly desired. However, the position is also explicitly directed at interested parties who already hold a doctorate.

Requirements:

Successfully completed university degree (Diplom, Master or equivalent) in transport planning, industrial engineering, economics or comparable.
Organizational talent, communication skills and assertiveness.
Clearly identifiable structured and process-oriented approach to work.
Knowledge in the field of transportation planning.
Competent with analytical programming languages (e.g. R or Python).
Very good knowledge of German, both written and spoken.
Good English skills, both written and spoken.
Good analytical skills, team spirit.
Interest in the topic.

Desirable

Experience with simulations.
Multidisciplinary orientation.
Experience with Java, versioning and shared programming infrastructures (e.g. Git) and / or larger programming projects.

Please send your application with the reference number and the usual documents (curriculum vitae, A-level exam certificates, Diplom/Master certificate and, if applicable, references) only by e-mail in one summarized pdf document to Prof. Dr. Nagel via bewerbung@vsp.tu-berlin.de.
By submitting your application via email you consent to having your data electronically processed and saved. Please note that we do not provide a guaranty for the protection of your personal data when submitted as unprotected file. Please find our data protection notice acc. DSGVO (General Data Protection Regulation) at the TU staff department homepage or quick access 214041.

Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - Fakultät V, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Sekr. SG 12, Salzufer 17-19, 10587 Berlin

The vacancy is also available on the internet at http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

Research assistant/PhD candidate position at Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics, TU Berlin (I)

2021-05-27T00:00:00Z

[For English please see below]

Bei der Technischen Universität Berlin ist die folgende Stelle zu besetzen:
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (d/m/w) - Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
Im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projektes „Modellgestützte Untersuchung von Schulschließungen und weiteren Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung von COVID-19“.
Teilzeitbeschäftigung ist ggf. möglich

Fakultät V - Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr / FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik Kennziffer: V-258/21 (besetzbar ab sofort / befristet bis 31.03.2024, Verlängerung wird angestrebt / Bewerbungsfristende 18.06.2021)

Aufgabenbeschreibung:
Mitarbeit im Forschungsprojekt MODUS-COVID. Zentraler Bestandteil des Forschungsprojektes ist die simulationsbasierte Untersuchung von Infektionsdynamiken im urbanen, regionalen und bundesweiten Kontext. Das Ziel ist dabei, die Reaktion der Infektionsdynamik auf unterschiedliche Eingriffe (z.B. Schulschließungen) zu prognostizieren und anschließend eine Bewertung der Wirksamkeit dieser Eingriffe vorzunehmen.

Mitarbeit am Fachgebiet in Forschung sowie Unterstützung der Lehre.
Zusammenarbeit mit nationalen und internationalen Partnern.

Erwartete Qualifikationen:

Erforderlich:

Erfolgreich abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium (Master, Diplom oder Äquivalent) im technisch-naturwissenschaftlichem Bereich.
Organisationstalent, Kommunikationsfähigkeiten und Durchsetzungsvermögen.
Klar erkennbare strukturierte und prozessorientierte Arbeitsweise.
Kenntnisse im Umgang mit Analysesoftware (z.B. R oder Python).
Gute Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift.
Gute analytische Fähigkeiten, Teamfähigkeit.
Interesse am Thema.

Vorteilhaft:

Erfahrungen im Umgang mit agentenbasierten Modellen und / oder epidemiologischen Modellen.
Multidisziplinäre Ausrichtung.
Erfahrungen mit Java, Versionierungs- und Shared-Programming-Infrastrukturen (z.B. Git) und / oder größeren Programmierprojekten.

Eine Verlängerung nach Ende der Projektlaufzeit wird angestrebt. In Verbindung mit der ausgeschriebenen Tätigkeit ist die Durchführung einer Promotion möglich und ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich jedoch ausdrücklich auch an bereits promovierte Interessenten.

Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte unter Angabe der Kennziffer mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Schulabschlusszeugnisse, Studienabschlusszeugnisse, ggf. Arbeitszeugnisse) ausschließlich per E-Mail in einem zusammengefassten pdf-Dokument an Prof. Dr. Nagel unter bewerbung@vsp.tu-berlin.de .

Zur Wahrung der Chancengleichheit zwischen Frauen und Männern sind Bewerbungen von Frauen mit der jeweiligen Qualifikation ausdrücklich erwünscht. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Die TU Berlin schätzt die Vielfalt ihrer Mitglieder und verfolgt die Ziele der Chancengleichheit.

Technische Universität Berlin - Der Präsident - Fakultät V, Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, FG Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Prof. Dr. Nagel, Sekr. SG 12, Salzufer 17-19, 10587 Berlin

Die Stellenausschreibung ist auch im Internet abrufbar unter:
http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

English

Technische Universität Berlin offers an open position:
Research Assistant - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
In the context of the BMBF-funded project “Model-supported investigation of school closures and further measures for the containment of COVID-19”.
Part-time employment may be possible.

Faculty V - Institute of Land and Sea Transport Systems / Transport Systems Planning and Transport Telematics Reference number: V-258/21 (starting at the earliest possible / limited until 31.03.2024, an extension of the contract is desired / closing date for applications 18/06/21)

Working field:
Collaboration in the MODUS-COVID research project. The central component of the research project is the simulation- based investigation of infection dynamics in an urban, regional and nationwide context. The goal is to predict the response of infection dynamics to different interventions (e.g., school closures) and subsequently evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions.

Assisting the department in teaching and research.
Collaborate with national and international partners.

Requirements:

Required:

Successfully completed university degree (Master, Diplom or equivalent) in a technical/scientific field. Organizational talent, communication skills and assertiveness.
Clearly recognizable structured and process-oriented way of working.
Knowledge of using analytical software (e.g. R or Python).
Good German and English skills, both written and spoken. Good analytical skills, ability to work in a team.
Interest in the topic.

Advantageous:

Experience in working with agent-based models and / or epidemiological models.
Multidisciplinary orientation.
Experience with Java, versioning and shared programming infrastructures (e.g. Git) and / or larger programming projects.

An extension of the contract after the end of the project duration is intended if possible. In connection with the advertised position, the completion of a PhD is possible and explicitly desired. However, the position is also explicitly directed at interested parties who already hold a doctorate.

Please send your application with the reference number and the usual documents (curriculum vitae, A-level exam certificates, Diplom/Master certificate and, if applicable, references) only by email combined in a single pdf file to Prof. Dr. Nagel at bewerbung@vsp.tu-berlin.de.

The vacancy is also available on the internet at http://www.personalabteilung.tu-berlin.de/menue/jobs/

Job posting: Transport Modeling Specialist at MOIA

2021-05-03T00:00:00Z

The mobility analytics & research section of MOIA is looking for a Transport Modeling/Simulation Specialist in Hamburg or Berlin. A focus of the position is the development and application of MATSim to develop MOIA’s future ride-pooling system.

More information can be found here.

PR-labelled releases

2021-04-26T00:00:00Z

PR-labelled releases

In mid-April, we introduced PR-labelled releases (or shortly, PR releases). It basically means that every time a pull request (PR) is merged, a PR-labelled MATSim version is released. Their version ID is structured in the following way: ${matsim_version_id}-PR${pull_request_id}. The first PR-labelled version released is 14.0-PR1452, which can be read as “pre-release PR1452 of MATSim 14.0”.

The RP-labelled releases is a high-frequency (after every PR is merged), low-latency (< 10 minutes) release stream that allows you to stay in sync with the latest features introduced to MATSim without the need of relying on the snapshot releases (i.e. ${matsim_version_id}-SNAPSHOT, e.g. 14.0-SNAPSHOT).

Why to use PR releases?

Using snapshot releases as dependencies is always risky. 14.0-SNAPSHOT is a moving target until it gets released as 14.0 (only then it becomes an immutable artifact). While depending on the snapshot version, you may experience situations when something that worked once may not work (or work differently) next time, because there have been some changes introduced to MATSim in the meantime. On the other hand, weekly releases, being immutable artifacts, are stable, but they are not released frequently enough for developers or users to stay in sync with the very latest changes in MATSim.

The PR releases fill the gap between these two release types. Moreover, their high frequency of releasing simplifies analysing a potential impact of each individual PR on the project that uses MATSim.

How to use PR releases?

Since we have recently migrated our maven repository, this requires a few simple changes in pom.xml of any project that depends on MATSim. As an example, please have a look at commit c971f24 that switches the MATSim version ID from 13.0-SNAPSHOT to 14.0-PR1452 and changes the MATSim maven repository in the MATSim MaaS project.

Weekly releases

In addition to the new PR releases, you can still use the weekly releases (released every Monday). From week 17, 2021, we release them as non-snapshots, so their name will not be suffixed with -SNAPSHOT (e.g. 14.0-2021w17 instead of 14.0-2021w17-SNAPSHOT).

How to use weekly releases?

If you want to use the latest weekly releases (2021w15-SNAPSHOT and newer), adjust the MATSim version ID and the repository accordingly ( similar to How to use PR releases?).

However, if you want to keep on using older weekly releases (2021w14-SNAPSHOT and older), you do not need to update anything (the old weekly releases are available from the old snapshot repository, hosted by jFrog).

Improved CI build pipelines

Since November 2020, we have been migrating the most time-critical continuous integration workflows to GitHub Actions. By doing so, we are now able to:

verify each pushed commit in 15-30 min
release the PR-labelled and snapshot versions in 5-10 min (after merging a PR)

This should significantly improve your experiences in developing or using the new features in MATSim.

MATSim 13.0 released, and new Maven Repository

2021-04-12T00:00:00Z

MATSim 13.0

We’re happy to announce the release of MATSim 13.0.

Among many small changes and improvements, here are a few highlights of this release:

SwissRailRaptor is now the default transit router. If you have enabled SwissRailRaptor yourself in the code (e.g. with controler.addOverridingModule(new SwissRailRaptorModule());), you should now remove this line as not to enable it twice.
There is a new, faster routing algorithm names SpeedyALT available for network (e.g. car) routing. It can be enabled in the config and used in place of Dijkstra, AStarLandmarks or any of the other existing routing algorithms.
Adding Hermes, a faster alternative to QSim for some scenarios (Hermes does not support all features that QSim does).
Vehicles can have attributes.
Support for cordon toll was removed from road pricing.

In addition, several contribs saw major work going on (e.g. the whole MAAS group: DRT, DVRP, …), so if you are not yet on a recent weekly snapshot, make sure to upgrade to version 13.0 soon to benefit from all the work.

To use the new version from your code as a Maven dependency, please note that you need to update the repository, as outlined in the next section.

New Maven Repository

For the last few years, we’ve hosted our jar-files in a Maven repository hosted by BinTray. Recently, BinTray announced that it shuts down its service for open source projects. We have thus migrated our MATSim releases to a new Maven repository.

Please update your pom.xml to use the following repository:

<repository>
    <!-- Repository for MATSim releases and snapshots (MATSim is not on Maven central) -->
    <id>matsim</id>
    <url>https://repo.matsim.org/repository/matsim</url>
</repository>

The two old repositories for releases (dl.bintray.com/matsim/matsim) and for snapshots (https://oss.jfrog.org/libs-snapshot) can be removed from the pom.

MATSim User Meeting 2021

2021-02-10T00:00:00Z

The recordings and presentations form the MATSim User Meeting 2021 are available at the IVT webpage.

MATSim User Meeting 2021 will be organized as a virtual event on March 22, 2021. If you would like to present your work we invite you to submit a short abstract until 01.03. at:

Abstract Submission Page

We will try to accommodate all time zones and to give everyone a chance to present their work. All the updates regarding the Meeting will be published here.

The attendance will be free of charge. For those that do not want to present, but are still interested to attend the meeting, please fill out this form:

Non-presenter Registration Link

The schedule can be downloaded from here.

In case of questions please contact Milos Balac or Stefano Penazzi.

Postdoc position at University of Littoral (Dunkerque)

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under the project “Sustainable Transport Under Pandemic Context”, University of Littoral has an immediate position for a postdoc researcher to work on MATsim. The project is related to transport modeling in the North of France with a focus on the improvement of calibration techniques and the implementation of epidemiological model. The position is for a period of 12 months with a net salary about 2,200 € per month. We are seeking a candidate who is familiar with agent-based traffic modelling, who have and experience with MATsim (or similar simulators).

Selection criteria

The selection will be based on the main criteria:

technical skills in transport modeling,
- data gathering and processing (databases)
- model calibration
- output analysis
- and experience with MATsim (or similar tools)
motivation to work on transport modeling
familiarities with Java/Eclipse environment
ability to process XML files

Other criteria that will be considered:

skills in the manipulation of geographical information systems
big data and statistical analysis
knowledge of epidemiological models
experience with mathematical optimisation methods

Contact

For more information please contact Prof Moez KILANI moez.kilani@univ-littoral.fr or Prof Daniel DE WOLF daniel.dewolf@univ-littoral.fr.

Postdoc position

2020-12-07T00:00:00Z

The position is for a period of 12 months with a net salary about 2,200 € per month. We are seeking a candidate who is familiar with agent-based traffic modelling, who have and experience with MATsim (or similar simulators).

The selection will be based on the main criteria:

technical skills in transport modeling,
- data gathering and processing (databases)
- model calibration
- output analysis
- and experience with MATsim (or similar tools)
motivation to work on transport modeling
familiarities with Java/Eclipse environment
ability to process XML files

Other criteria that will be considered:

* skills in the manipulation of geographical information systems * big data and statistical analysis * knowledge of epidemiological models * experience with mathematical optimisation methods

For more information please contact Prof Moez KILANI moez.kilani@univ-littoral.fr or Prof Daniel DE WOLF daniel.dewolf@univ-littoral.fr.

Introducing HERMES

2020-10-30T00:00:00Z

1. Introduction

As means of transportation evolve, as the preferences of individuals change, and as the population increases, we need to understand what changes are required to our transportation networks in order to provide optimal service. One key element towards delivering this is large-scale simulation. However, the state-of-the-art tools we currently have at hand are unable to support such magnitudes (e.g. country-wide level such as Switzerland). For instance, using its default simulator, QSim, MATSim is expected to require roughly 116 days to carry out 1000 simulation iterations of Switzerland at 100% population. It is obvious that such execution times make large-scale scenarios impractical.

After analyzing MATSim, we have found that the main scalability inhibitors are the data structures and algorithms in the simulation core, QSim. To this extent, we propose a novel, high-performance, scalable simulator for MATSim called Hermes.

2. Hermes Overview

Hermes is a high-performance simulator which supports large-scale scenarios and repetitive what-if runs. It focuses on efficiently implementing the concepts behind transport simulation, and functions as an alternative to QSim. Figure 1 shows the new MATSim architecture with Hermes as its simulation core.


Fig. 1: MATSim Architecture with the Hermes Simulator

Hermes is built around one critical observation: in large-scale simulations, at every iteration, events are concentrated around a sparse set of areas in the graph. Hence, traversing the entire graph is wasteful. Hermes capitalizes on this point by exploiting an event-driven execution, where only the events taking place at a specific iteration are processed. This is in opposition to QSim's approach of processing each link and agent at each iteration.

Hermes also introduces additional improvements, such as: optimized code paths for common events, optimized data structures, pre-computation and memoization, as well as efficient code which makes extensive use of primitive types. These features, together with the event-driven approach, enable Hermes to deliver efficient, large-scale simulations.

It should be noted that Hermes does not compromise on extensibility, and allows users to plug in experimental events into the simulation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only extension in the MATSim ecosystem which is both scalable and abides to the ecosystem's principles of extensibility and community-driven development.

Quite notably, Hermes does not provide all the functionality that QSim has to offer, but focuses on the core, "standard" functionality. Different vehicle types and both private and public transport can be simulated in a similar way as with QSim. Special extensions such as dynamic vehicle routing, within-day replanning or traffic signals are however not supported. Nevertheless, a dual use of Hermes and QSim is in theory possible, where Hermes is used for some iterations and Qsim for others.

3. Hermes Architecture and Workflow

Hermes' architecture consists of three main stages: Scenario Importer, Simulation Core, and Event Manager, as shown in Figure 1. We further describe what each stage does.

Scenario Setup: Prepares the data structures used by the Simulation Core. These structures refer to the links that form the network, the agents that participate in the simulation, as well as other helpful data structures. Considering that an event defines what, when and how something happens in the network, and that we can readily extract the what and how from an agent plan, it follows that we can pre-compute all the events during the simulation by initially omitting the when. This latter piece of information is added at simulation time.

Simulation Core: Performs the simulation itself using an event-driven algorithm. In its implementation, this stage employs a set of optimizations, which refer to: Avoiding Objectification, Avoiding Non-Contiguous Data Structures, Avoiding Polymorphism, and striving for Compact Hot-Code Paths.

Event Processor: Processes events generated by the Simulation Core, and converts them to MATSim compatible structures.

4. Results

Hermes has already been adopted by the SBB where it is being used in production. Here, we perform a simulation of Switzerland with 10% population (roughly 1M agents and 1.5M network links) over 301 iterations. We use a machine equipped with a Xeon Platinum 8168 (48 cores in total) at 2.70GHz, and 768GBs of RAM. Hermes uses 48 threads, while QSim uses 18 threads during simulation. Both simulations only use 130GBs of RAM.

The average iteration time in Hermes is 3:33 minutes, while in QSim it is 8:45 minutes. This is a 2.5x speedup. The total simulation runtime is reduced by 40% , and is now dominated by MATSim's Replanning Step.

Due to the differences in Hermes' and QSim's logic, the simulation results are not identical. These discrepancies are however very slight, and do not affect the overall quality of the results. For instance, transfer times and road congestion times in Hermes are marginally higher. Transportation mode distributions can also be subject to small differences, such as lower car usage in Hermes (around 1%), as can be seen in Figure 2.

5. Usage

Hermes is part of the current MATSim snapshots and weekly releases and can be used out of the box by setting the "mobsim" parameter in the Controller Config-Group to "hermes".

There is an additional Hermes Config Group, where some parameters should be set, many of them are similar to those in QSim:

<!-- Simulation End Time –>

<!-- time in seconds. Time after which the frontmost vehicle on a link is called `stuck' if it does not move. Set to Integer.MAX_VALUE to disable this behavior –>

<!-- treats PT as deterministic. PT vehicles will run with a steady speed according to their timetable. –>

</module>

In addition to that, the event handling needs to be set to oneThreadPerHandler

…

…

</module>

Note: The FlowCapacityFactor setting should be set in accordance with the population sample size. The storageCapacityFactor might be set a little bit higher for small sample sizes (=< 10%).

Hermes supports different vehicle types and PCUs. If PT is used on a congested network, the PCU equivalent for the transit vehicles should be defined in accordance with the sample size (i.e., for a 10% sample, a PT vehicle's PCUe should be set to 10%). For all other vehicles, an automatic scaling is performed.

6. Conclusions

We have presented Hermes, a novel simulator for MATSim, which delivers high-performance and scalability using an event-driven design and numerous optimizations to the code and the data structures. We have shown Hermes' improved efficiency over QSim through production-level results. Moreover, Hermes is currently being successfully used in production by the SBB to simulate transportation networks within Switzerland. The simulator is currently integrated in MATSim, and is available via the latest weekly releases of MATSim 13 (https://matsim.org/downloads/).

7. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the SBB for their generous support towards funding the project as part of the Mobility Initiative, and for the many fruitful discussions we have had the SBB Planning team. We would also like to thank Dr. Michel Müller (ETH), Dr. Marcel Rieser (SBB/Simunto), Prof. Gustavo Alonso (ETH), Prof. Torsten Hoefler (ETH) and Wolfgang Scherr (SBB) for their many contributions and ideas on this project.

MATSim Positions available at Polytechnique Montreal

2020-10-08T00:00:00Z

MATSim Positions available at Polytechnique Montreal at the PhD/PostDoc level.

Various topics available including:

continuous calibration,
integration of machine learning techniques,
epidemic modeling.

If interested please contact me at francesco.ciari@polymtl.ca

EpiSim with MATSim

2020-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dear MATSim-Community,

In this post we want to shortly present MATSim-EpiSim of the MATSim group in Berlin. Episim is an open source framework which can be used to simulate, based on MATSim events, an epidemic outbreak.

In EpiSim we attach an infection model to the already existing mobility model. Agents can infect each other if they are simultaneously in the same facility or vehicle. If two agents have contact, the probability of infection depends on the following parameters:

duration (comes directly from mobility model)
contact intensity (depends on room size and air exchange)
mask usage
location: indoors or outdoors

For COVID-19, EpiSim uses a disease progression model taken from literature. This means that an infected agent may transition to showing symptoms or requiring hospital or intensive care with certain probabilities and that agents can go into quarantine.

EpiSim can be used to investigate the effects of non pharmaceutical interventions. These include the reduction of out-of-home activities (for example closing of schools), reduced use of public transport, wearing of masks, contact tracing and reduced disease import. Current simulation results for Berlin can be found here: https://covid-sim.info

For more details, see the following preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160093.

MATSim 12.0 released

2020-07-15T00:00:00Z

We released MATSim 12.0 last month, bringing various improvements and optimizations to MATSim.

There were some API changes, e.g. how we handle undefined times. So if you write code yourself that uses MATSim, you might need to adapt it in some places when upgrading.

Download the latest version of MATSim now!

MATSim User Meeting Cancelled

2020-03-12T00:00:00Z

The MATSim User Meeting, which was to take place in Warsaw, Poland, on April 6th, had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions in the context of the containment measures for the current coronavirus outbreak. The date for the next user meeting is not fixed yet, and will be communicated in due time.

We apologize for this inconvenience, and hope to see you again in the next user meetings.

TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling - call for late breaking research

2020-02-19T00:00:00Z

The organizers of the upcoming TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling conference reached out to me directly to solicit any MATSim-related “late-breaking research”. They are keen to include MATSim on the program.

Specifically there are some “gaps” in the content that they think MATSim talks could fill:

New approaches for representing network supply
Approaches to understanding and representing shared mobilities

The organizers are considering a “special issue” of TRR (Transportation Research Record) so that submissions have a place to be published – which is specifically being done to encourage academic contributions this time.

More details below:

Did you want to be on the program for the TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference but didn’t have anything to submit back when the call for content was out last summer?

Are you working on something new and interesting that we should know about?

Do you have “something to say” about one of these specific topics that we are building sessions around:

Machine learning applications in travel analysis
Approaches utilized for considering uncertainty in forecasts and case studies for the considering uncertainty in decision-making.
Modeling methodologies to address dynamics in travel behavior and demand
Approaches to understanding and representing shared mobilities
Generalizable travel model construction methodologies and strategies
New approaches for representing network supply
Travel analysis and research workflow examples (aka we can be efficient and effective at our jobs)
Travel analysis “software stack” examples (aka what tools do you use)
A data standards that the industry should know about and use

The Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference Planning Team is seeking limited content submissions thru March 3rd.

Submissions can be made online at: https://forms.gle/KDkG9V6qJXdiTxQe6

These will have a quick turn-around in order to meet the Early Bird Registration Deadline of March 15th

For more general conference information and to get your Early Bird Registration squared away, please visit the conference website.

Cheers!

Elizabeth Sall, on behalf of the TRB ITM 2020 Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference Planning Team

Events comparison in regression tests

2020-02-13T00:00:00Z

There are many tests that at some point run

EventsFileComparator.compare( filename1, filename2 )

I have now, somewhat as an experiment, added coordinates into the person arrival events. This will break the strict events comparison.

I have therefore made the events comparison somewhat more flexible; you can now write

new EventsFileComparator()
    .setIgnoringCoordinates(true)
    .runComparison(filename1, filename2)

This will then ignore the coordinates in the comparison, and thus make the test pass again (if nothing else is broken).

Since we are planning to play around a bit more with this (in the context of visualization), I would recommend to use this switch rather than replacing the reference events files.

Job Posting: Mobility Expert at SBB

2020-01-13T00:00:00Z

The SBB business development team, located in Berne, Switzerland, is looking for a Simulation expert. The position has one focus on transport simulations, including MATSim, and their applications in strategical company planning.

More information can be found here.

Registration for the User Meeting is now open

2019-12-20T00:00:00Z

Registration for the user meeting is now open on the page of the event, until February 27th, 2020.

We encourage you to register at your earliest convenience, even if you do not yet know whether you will be able to come. This will help make sure we have enough seats and food for all participants, and you will have the possibility to pay only when you are sure to come.

MATSim news is now on matsim.org

2019-12-05T00:00:00Z

The blog on Confluence is now deprecated. Due to continued breakages caused by Atlassian/Confluence changes, we’ve decided to move the MATSim news blog directly onto the MATSim website. We have been mirroring these posts onto the website for a long time anyway, so now everything will be in one place.

We continue to welcome MATSim-related news items, job postings, and event announcements. Now, you’ll submit news by creating a pull request on Github.com with the content of your news item in Markdown format.

Explicit directions for submitting news items: see https://matsim.org/submit-news
And if those instructions aren’t clear enough just let us know!

Thank you! Hopefully this transition will be straightforward.

Routing mode + (helper) walk modes

2019-12-02T00:00:00Z

We (Kai Nagel, Gregor Leich) just merged the branch routingMode5 into the development head master branch (https://github.com/matsim-org/matsim/pull/738).

Summary:

all legs now have an attribute “routingMode”
the MainModeIdentifier is only used to retrofit old plans without routingMode (automatic in PrepareForSimImpl), it won’t be used in ModeStatsControlerListener (overwrite AnalysisMainModeIdentifier instead)
several helper walk modes such as “transit_walk”, “non_network_walk”, “access_walk”, “drt_walk”, “drt_fallback” were replaced by normal TransportMode.walk (automatic retrofit in PrepareForSimImpl), more precisely by calls to the RoutingModule for TransportMode.walk. This replaced many custom *walk routers and will allow routing “walk” over the network in the future.

This is a pretty old topic (https://matsim.atlassian.net/browse/MATSIM-26), partly solves several Jira issues, e.g. (https://matsim.atlassian.net/browse/MATSIM-943, https://matsim.atlassian.net/browse/MATSIM-856, <https://matsim.atlassian.net/browse/MATSIM-473 >) and makes life easier for intermodal trips.

The content is our long-discussed “routing mode”, i.e. that trips memorize the router from which they were generated. The prime example is a trip which currently may have mode transit_walk; in the future, it would have mode walk and routing mode pt. This also means that “MainModeIdentifier” will no longer be necessary. (We will keep it to retrofit older plans files.)

In general, we are not using non_network_walk or transit_walk or drt_walk. The reasoning is that teleported bicycle is bike, not non_network_bike, and we have always done it like that. In consequence, if the walk router called from, say, the pt router is a teleportation router, it will still return plain walk. The only exception is a network-based walk router: In that case, we indeed have non_network_walk access to the walk network, then a walk leg along the network, and a non_network_walk to the final destination.

The implementation currently is via Attributable. Since there is no trip, we attach it to every leg. Trips that have inconsistent routing modes in their legs will lead to an error. We should probably consider to elevate the routing mode to a typed argument with a future population file.

“non_network_walk“ will now only be used by the walk router if walk is routed over the network and only for access/egress to the walk network. It is some kind of fallback layer to access the network. All other modes can use the walk router to access the network. Per default the walk router is still a pure teleportation router NOT routing over the network. So in the end what was a non_network_walk → pt interaction → pt → pt interaction → non_network_walk trip will now per default be a walk → pt interaction → pt → pt interaction → walk trip with the plansCalcRoute and scoring parameters of walk!.

Keep in mind that what was previously a direct walk “transit_walk” is now a walk leg with routingMode pt and has the same scoring and plansCalcRoute parameters as walk with routingMode walk, so mode shift from one to the other does not necessarily mean a real change (that problem already existed before as the default for transit_walk was to copy parameters from walk). Similar issues apply to the other fallback modes (drt_walk, drt_fallback). Previously we had only the MainModeIdentifier which was used for two rather incompatible purposes (see https://matsim.atlassian.net/browse/MATSIM-26 for details):

to identify the correct routing module
to identify the main mode according to transportation planning.
- One example where this becomes clear are the somewhat weird “main mode” definition in the German travel survey … which just has an arbitrary hierarchy for multi-modal trips. So this varies from country to country, and maybe even from survey to survey.

We now split them up:

is now explictly saved in the attribute routingMode ( and uses MainModeIdentifier for retrofitting old plans)
AnalysisMainModeIdentifier binding, defaults to routingMode for backwards compatibility, but can be overwritten separately from MainModeIdentifier with something more useful for mode share analysis.

This is only an analysis problem, you can now plug in an AnalysisMainModeIdentifier to fix this in analysis, e.g. overwrite the default with an hierachical MainModeIdentifier such as TransportPlanningMainModeIdentifier.

MATSim-related Post-Doc Position in Tel-Aviv University, Israel

2019-11-25T00:00:00Z

The Geosimulation and Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel have an immediate open position for a postdoc expert in MATSim and Transportation Modeling. The position is for a period of 1.5-2 years with an annual scholarship of 16,500-20,500 euros, depending on the qualification.

We are looking for a suitable candidate which holds a PhD on agent-based traffic modeling with the MATSim. The accepted candidate will join our team for building, calibration and validating A MATSim scenario for the Jerusalem metropolitan area based on cellular phone data and assessing the transportation future of Jerusalem. You will work at Tel Aviv, University, hand in hand with the transportation authority of Jerusalem.

You should have:

Technical experience and proficiency in Computer Science/Data Science/Statistics/Mathematics.
Excellent JAVA/Object-oriented programming skills.
Big data analysis.
Experience with statistical analysis with R/ Stata/other.
Experience with Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modelling.
MATSim experience (mandatory).

Bonuses:

Fleet assignment, dispatching, pooling and optimizations (a bonus).
Experience of mobile phone data analysis (a bonus)

The Geosimulation lab is looking for a strongly motivated candidate who can work both independently and in a team. The applicant will actively participate in the different phases of the research process, from its conception to writing for publication. Excellent command of English is necessary.

For any other inquires please contact Prof. Itzhak Benenson, mailto:bennya@tauex.tau.ac.il

Ph.D. at MOBI (Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium)

2019-10-28T00:00:00Z

The Vrije Universiteit Brussels has currently an open position for pursuing a PhD in the domain of freight transport with a strong focus on transport externalities.

For details please see https://jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-PhD-Scholarship-MOBI/563948201/. For any possible questions you may contact me at mailto:Koen.Mommens@vub.be.

Announcing MATSim User Meeting 2020: April 6th at ANT in Warsaw, Poland

2019-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dear MATSim community,

this year the annual MATSim user meeting will be in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting occurs on April 6th, just a day before the ANT conference, which begins on Tuesday, April 7th.

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-20/

We are now accepting submissions for the User Meeting from both Science and Industry. Submissions for the User Meeting should take the form of an abstract (< 1000 words), and are to be submitted before 29th February 2020, through EasyChair.

MATSim-related submissions to the main conference will as well be considered for inclusion in the User Meeting program. Please feel free to forward this information to any of your contacts, by sharing the link to the EasyChair call for papers:

https://easychair.org/cfp/matsim2020

Registration for the User Meeting will be announced in the close future.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Warsaw!

Thibaut Dubernet

Stefano Penazzi