faq 108073357

How to run the parking extension?

by Florian Zenoni on 2017-02-24 15:13:22

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Dear experts,

I apologize if what follows are stupid questions, but I really couldn't figure them out by myself, and to be honest I feel completely lost.

Mine is in fact a very simple query: how to run MATSim with the parking extension? I was somehow able to figure out the following starting command:

java -Xmx2000m -cp matsim-0.81.jar;parking\parking-0.81.jar org.matsim.contrib.parking.run.RunParkingExample

Here the config.xml file is missing: should I append its path to the command? How should I define into the config.xml the parkingFacilities.xml destination? Chapter 13.5 of the MATSim manual mentions the existence of examples, but I wasn't able to figure out where they are.

Moreover, I am confused by the split between parking choice and parking search. Does it change anything for the final MATSim user?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Comments: 1

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Re: How to run the parking extension?

by Joschka Bischoff on 2017-02-24 15:42:57

Hi Florian,

I would recommend installing the extension via Maven and the example project, this would allow you to work on the 0.9.0-SNAPSHOT.

For an instruction on how to do it, see under (2) in http://www.matsim.org/downloads

To add an extension, you simply need to edit the pom.xml file.

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in MATSim 0.8.1, the only thing available is a ParkingChoice (mainly the choice between different parking facilities, using scoring parameters) Example:

org.matsim.contrib.parking.run.RunParkingExample

( https://github.com/matsim-org/matsim/blob/0.8.x/contribs/parking/src/main/java/org/matsim/contrib/parking/run/RunParkingExample.java )

Even though I'm the author of this example, I cannot really help you with the application. We had problems figuring it out ourselves. Apparently it is running for the Zurich scenario. For a documentation, see the parking chapter in the MATSim book.

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We (i.e., the Berlin team) recently had to model Parking Search algorithms for street side parking. These rely on withinday replanning and a spontaneous search for free street side spaces. This is only included in the 0.9.0-SNAPSHOT

Your entry point to the code here would be org.matsim.contrib.parking.parkingsearch.RunParkingSearchExample

For a reference on this, see

J. Bischoff, K. Nagel; Integrating explicit parking search into a transport simulation

available from http://www.vsp.tu-berlin.de/publications/vspwp/

Good luck!

Joschka