Generation of the Initial MATSim Input

Abstract

As explained in Section 2.2, the minimal MATSim input, besides the configuration, consists of the network and population with initial plans. For illustrative scenarios, all three can be generated with a text editor. For more complicated and/or realistic scenarios, they need to be generated by other methods. People with knowledge in a scripting language may use that scripting language to generate the necessary XML files, possibly honoring the MATSim DTDs. We ourselves use Java as our scripting language for these purposes. Java is not necessarily the best choice here; this may be discussed elsewhere. We do use it, for the