Agent-Based Traffic Assignment

Abstract

This chapter presents MATSim froma DTA perspective. The following material is an abridged and edited version of Nagel and Flötteröd (2012). The traffic assignment problem, whether macroscopic or microscopic, static or dynamic, trip based or agent-based, is to identify a situation where travel demand and travel supply (network conditions) are consistent with each other. Travel demand results from a demand model that reacts to conditions in the network; these are the output of a supply model (network loading model) using travel demand as its input. A solution of the traffic assignment problem describes an equilibrium between travel demand and travel