Multi-day or weekly simulation in MATSim?

[JoeCham3oun]

Provide the MATSim version you are using. You can find the version in the pom.xml. E.g. 2025.0.

2025.0

Did you build a minimal example to reproduce the issue?

• Yes!

Describe the problem you are facing.

Hello MATSim team,

For my internship, I need to simulate mobility demand over multiple consecutive days, ideally a full week.

I am currently in the exploratory phase and would like to know if MATSim supports multi-day simulations, or if there are existing approaches, extensions, or best practices to implement such scenarios.

Before I start setting up the simulation, I wanted to check if anyone has already worked on this type of use case, or if it would require significant customization.

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

If possible, provide a link to your minimal example. This might be a GitHub repository.

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[jfbischoff]

This is indeed possible from a technical point of view, but rarely used.
Instead of providing agents a daily plan, you can extend these to a full week.
Some tricks might be necessary for typical opening and closing times, e.g. you may need to work with an activity named "work_tuesday" with an opening time at 32:00:00 and a closing time at 42:00:00.

Depending on your scenario size, calculation times might be rather high.

Perhaps you will need to write your own replanning algorithm that moves an activity between days.

[kainagel]

Exactly that. Something like "openingTime=0:00" and "closingTime=24:00" means that it will be closed on the second day.

[JoeCham3oun]

Thanks a lot @jfbischoff and @kainagel — this really helps. I’ll give it a try!

[kainagel]

Thanks for your feedback. I am closing this item; please re-open if you run into problems with this.