MATSim User Meeting 2025 North America

Montréal, QC, Canada - Polytechnique Montreal, 2 September 2025

MATSim User Meeting 2025 North America

Montréal, QC, Canada - Polytechnique Montreal, 2 September 2025

Program

9:00 - 9:20 Welcome and Introduction 
9:20 - 9:45 Investigating the Impacts of Network and Agent-Location Resolution on the Accuracy and Performance of Activity-based Travel and Network Simulation Model for Metro Vancouver - Madhawa Premasiri, Mahmudur Fatmi – University of British Columbia
10:10 - 10:35 Operationalization of SILO+MATSim in Canada: Experiences from Toronto and Montréal.Luke Samuel Guardino, Sean Rodriguez Lee, Bilal Farooq (presenter), Zachary Patterson - Toronto Metropolitan University & Concordia University
10:35 - 11:00 A Robust Framework for LLM-Based AI Replanning Agents in MATSimAshraf U.Z. Patwary, Francesco Ciari – Polytechnique Montreal 
11:00 -11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 -11:40 Planning the Transition to Electric Buses: A Practical Framework Using Agent-Based Modeling and Optimization - Jônatas Augusto Manzolli, Alessandro D'Apice, Praveen Kumar Pandey – McGill University & Polytechnique Montreal
11:40 - 12:05 Mobility Energy Productivity (MEP) Metric: Applications, Partnerships, and Key Enhancements - Shivam Sharda - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
12:05 - 12:30 Integrating the Demographic Microsimulator (DEMOS) into Regional Planning: Insights from the SCAG and SF Bay Regions - Shivam Sharda - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 13:55 Reproducibly Coupling MATSim within a Larger Integrated Modeling Ecosystem: Insights and Results from BEAM CORE - Zach Needell – University of California Berkeley
13:55 - 14:20 Bridging Realms for Assessment of Energy consumption and Traffic-related Health Effects: Insights and results from BEAM CORE - Haitam Laraabi – University of California Berkeley
14:20 - 14:45 Calibration of Carsharing use in MATSimIdriss El Megzari – Polytechnique Montreal
14:45 - 15:10 MATSim-NYC recalibrations incorporating truck population and more equitably-aware synthetic population for future demand management scenariosJoseph Chow – New York University
15:10 - 15:25 Coffee Break
15:25 - 15:50 Wildfire evacuation simulationEhsan Hassanzadeh - University of British Columbia
15:50 - 16:15 Towards Deep Reinforcement Learning based Labour Market Clearing in SILO+MATSim. - Lina Waqfi (presenter), Bilal Farooq, Zachary Patterson - Toronto Metropolitan University & Concordia University
16:15 - 16:40 Generating Realistic Synthetic Populations for Activity-based Models: A Deep Generative Approach - Farbod Abbasi, Bilal Farooq and Zachary Patterson - Toronto Metropolitan University & Concordia University
16:40 - 17:05 Investigating EV Charging Behavior Through Agent-Based Simulation: Impacts of Time and Spatial PricingArsham Bakhtiari – Polytechnique Montreal
17:05 - 17:20 Closure

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