The same person’s day, played out

In one sentence

Every activity has a place, a start and an end; every trip a mode and a route — that is what the simulation moves through the network.

Why it matters

The simulation moves the person from activity to activity and waits through each one: home until 07:12, walk, bus, work until 16:40, shopping for 33 minutes, home, car to leisure until 21:40, home for the night. The event log on the right is what the simulation records.

Agent-based simulation is usually explained with equations or with a screenshot of a running model. Neither shows why a planner should care. These explainers show the mechanism itself — one person, one day, one score — so that the results on a dashboard stop being a black box.

Sources

• Scoring parameters are typical MATSim values (illustrative); see Horni, Nagel & Axhausen (2016), ch. 3

What you see

1. 01.2Home until 07:12
2. 03.3Bus to work
3. 05.1Work until 16:40
4. 09.3Shopping, 33 min
5. 13.7Car to leisure
6. 17.8Home for the night

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