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Information for developers
These documents …
- … provide specification of key-aspects of MATSim (e.g. file formats, simulation events, …)
- … list some guidelines for developers (e.g. coding conventions) to keep MATSim maintainable.
- … give information about certain packages, how to (programmatically) use them and what features they offer. offers additional pieces of information that may/should be of interest to developers (e.g. how to use Eclipse for development, or some Java-tips)
Information for users
The “MATSim Book” is now the authoritative reference.
There is an extract of the first couple of chapters, which contains the most relevant topics for new users. This is also referred to as the ``MATSim user guide’’.
Some Terminology (i.e. correspondences between MATSim terminology and more standard transport modelling terminology, and reasons why ours is different) can be found here.
Publications
Being an open-source project heavily driven by research organizations world-wide, a lot of publications were written about MATSim. If you are interested in scientific publications about MATSim, the publication lists of the following institutions serve as a good entry point:
- Publications by VSP TU-Berlin
- in particular the working paper series
- Publications at IVT ETH Zurich
- in particular the working paper series
- Google Scholar search, newest first
- Google Scholar search, most relevant first
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