The “Multi-Modal” Contribution

Abstract

MATSim’s standard mobsim, QSim, has recently been enabled to model multimodal scenarios as shown in Section 4.6. In this chapter,¹ an earlier approach to handle multimodal scenarios, the multimodal link contribution, is presented. As shown below, it is a very efficient approach, that considers persons’ biking and walking speeds to improve the teleportation estimates for these modes, whereas mode interactions are not taken into account. Figure 21.1 shows the implementation’s basic concept—a multimodal contribution is added to each link object in the mobsim. While traffic flow dynamics are simulated by MATSim’s mobsim using a queue model, these flows are