QSim

Abstract

For a variety of reasons—e.g., vehicle-specific emissions calculations (Chapter 36), or vehicle-specific maximum speeds (see below)—it may become necessary to assign different vehicle types to different persons, modes, or trips. The (arguably) most “honest” approach to vehicles, in terms of micro-simulation, is to generate a synthetic vehicle fleet. Each leg would then have to know which vehicle it wants to use. This is indeed possible with the planned vehicle ID that MATSim route objects can store. This functionality is switched on by first loading an additional vehicles file (see Section 6.6) and then configuring the QSim as (available