MATSim population for Melbourne

master dev

This script generates a sample population for Melbourne based on the ABS 2016 census and using VISTA-like activities and trips.

Setup R

The population generation code (in the ./R directory) is written in R and a working knowledge of R is assumed here.

We use packrat to manage the R package dependencies for this project. To install the required R packages locally inside this repository, do:

install.packages("packrat")
packrat::restore()

Ensure that your setup is working by running some quick tests:

testthat::test_dir("tests/testthat")

If all tests pass, you are all set to produce a sample Melbourne population using the steps below.

How to get the Melbourne Data

Download the required data files for generating the population and place them into ./data. For download instructions see ./data/README.md.

How to build a sample Melbourne population

Here is an example of how to build a small sample population (0.1%) for Melbourne with census-like persons and VISTA-like activities and trips, for weekdays:

Rscript -e 'setwd("R"); source("makeExamplePopulation.R"); runexample()'

The script is quite verbose and takes a few minutes to run. If all went well you should get the MATSim population in ./output/8.xml/plan.xml.