matsim-example-project

A small example of how to use MATSim as a library.

By default, this project uses the latest (pre-)release. In order to use a different version, edit pom.xml.

A recommended directory structure is as follows:

• src for sources
• original-input-data for original input data (typically not in MATSim format)
• scenarios for MATSim scenarios, i.e. MATSim input and output data. A good way is the following:
  • One subdirectory for each scenario, e.g. scenarios/mySpecialScenario01.
  • This minimally contains a config file, a network file, and a population file.
  • Output goes one level down, e.g. scenarios/mySpecialScenario01/output-from-a-good-run/....

Import into eclipse

1. download a modern version of eclipse. This should have maven and git included by default.
2. file->import->git->projects from git->clone URI and clone as specified above. It will go through a sequence of windows; it is important that you import as 'general project'.
3. file->import->maven->existing maven projects

Sometimes, step 3 does not work, in particular after previously failed attempts. Sometimes, it is possible to right-click to configure->convert to maven project. If that fails, the best thing seems to remove all pieces of the failed attempt in the directory and start over.

Import into IntelliJ

... todo ...