Some History of MATSim

Abstract

As sketched earlier (Section 1.1), MATSim derives from the following research streams: Microscopic Modeling of Traffic Microscopic modeling was a basis for traffic flow theory from the start (e.g., Herman et al., 1959; Seddon, 1972; Wiedemann, 1974), but the work was limited to individual links, or small sequences of links and could thus not address equilibrium, as aggregate assignment models could from the 1970’ s onward (see Sheffi, 1985; Ortúzar and Willumsen, 2011). The expansion to whole and large networks came with the increasingly powerful computers in the 1980’s, as well as fast and sufficiently accurate flow models (e.g.,