Introduction

METROPOLIS2

METROPOLIS2 is an agent-based transport simulator.

Its main features are:

• 🚘 Mode choice (with an arbitrary number of modes, road vehicles are explicitly modeled)
• ⏱️ Continuous-time departure-time choice
• 🛣️ Deterministic route choice (for road vehicles)
• 👫 Agent based (each agent is an autonomous entity with its own characteristics and choices)
• 🚦 Modeling of road congestion (using speed-density functions and bottlenecks)
• ⏸️ Intermediary stops (with schedule preferences and stopping time at each intermediary point)

METROPOLIS2 is composed of

• Metropolis-Core: a command line tool to run the transport simulations, written in Rust 🚀
• MetroPy: a command line tool to interact with METROPOLIS2’s input and output data, written in Python 🐍

What is this book?

This is the official documentation of METROPOLIS2, intended for anyone wanting to learn how to use the simulator and how it works.

It is devided in 6 chapters:

• Chapter 1: MetroPy user guide
• Chapter 2: Metropolis-Core reference
• Chapter 3: Advanced topics
• Chapter 4: Theoretical foundations
• Chapter 5: Implementation details
• Chapter 6: External tools