MATSim sharing extension

This repository contains an extension for MATSim which makes it possible to simulate shared vehicle services. The extension is written in a modular way such that common features like reserving vehicles at a dock, picking up vehicles, returning vehicles, etc. are managed. However, the underlying mode of transport can be anything that can be simulated in MATSim. This means you can use construct a sharing services with network-simulated cars, network-simulated bikes or any teleportation-based modes (e.g. simple representations of shared bikes or scooters). Furthermore, we provide tools to automatically convert common data sources such as GBFS feeds.

More documentation is underway, on:

• How to set up a teleportation-based service (freefloating and station-based)
• How to set up a network-based service
• How the format of the service definition XML looks like (with stations and vehicles)

For the time being, there are a couple of examples. For instance, RunCarsharing sets up a simple (network-based) car-sharing service for standard scenarios such as Sioux Falls. RunTeleportationBikesharing is a similar example for a teleportation-based bikesharing service.

Main developers:

• Milos Balac (ETH Zurich)
• Sebastian Hörl (IRT SystemX)

Main reference:

• Balac, M. and S. Hörl (2021) Simulation of intermodal shared mobility in the San Francisco Bay using MATSim, to be presented at the 2021 Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC).

Versioning and Packging

The current version of matsim-sharing is 1.0.2 and is based on MATSim 13.0. You can access it through the v1.0.2 tag. The master branch is kept at version 1.0.2 until the next release is prepared, but may include additional developments since the last release.

The code is available as a Maven package. To use it, add the following repository to your pom.xml:

<repository>
    <id>eth-ivt-sharing</id>
    <url>https://packagecloud.io/eth-ivt/sharing/maven2</url>
</repository>

Afterwards, you can add the following dependency to your project:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.matsim.contrib</groupId>
  <artifactId>sharing</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>