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Software Architecture for a Transparent and Versatile Traffic Simulation

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Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS 2016)

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MATSim is a traffic simulation software package which can be customized and extended in the Java programming language using a set of interfaces. It recently acquired a plug-in system which was implemented using framework-assisted dependency injection, a pattern more typically used in enterprise rather than research software. We describe the extension points and the implementation of the plug-in system. The architecture makes it easier and safer to combine independently developed components to complex simulation models, compared to many ad-hoc solutions often found in research software.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    also see http://matsim.org.

  2. 2.

    Wrongly spelled Controler in MATSim.

  3. 3.

    Called Mobsim (\(=\) mobility simulation) in MATSim.

  4. 4.

    The current release version, 4.0, was used for this implementation.

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  1. Verkehrssystemplanung und Verkehrstelematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Zilske & Kai Nagel

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  1. University of Wollongong , Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

    Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

  2. RMIT University , Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Lin Padgham

  3. University of Wollongong , Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

    Pascal Perez

  4. Technische Universität Berlin , Berlin, Germany

    Kai Nagel

  5. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul , Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Ana Bazzan

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Zilske, M., Nagel, K. (2017). Software Architecture for a Transparent and Versatile Traffic Simulation. In: Namazi-Rad, MR., Padgham, L., Perez, P., Nagel, K., Bazzan, A. (eds) Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems. ABMUS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51957-9_5

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