Visualizing MATSim data

Load and visualize many of MATSim’s default file formats.

Network – Visualize arbitrary attributes of loaded networks, including volumes, average speeds, or other values aggregated from events.

Vehicles – Visualize simulated vehicles, fully animated along their trajectories. Use different colors, sizes and styles to distinguish different types.

Agents – Show where and when agents perform activities, or how they travel between them.

Analyzing MATSim runs

Extract a lot of data from MATSim’s events.xml.

Powerful Analyses included – Using the native MATSim file formats like network, population, facilities and events, Via is capable of calculating many different key aspects of your simulations and providing you access to these data in an easy and configurable way. Via allows you to easily calculate link volumes, see the number of trip starts over the course of a day for different modes, perform select link and select facility analyses, or inspect single agents’ plans.

Analyzing large spatio-temporal data

Load and visualize arbitrary spatio-temporal data.

File Formats – Load data from CSV files, GPX files, ESRI Shape files or more modern GeoJSON or even GeoPackage, Via will load your data.

CRS Conversion – No problem if your data does not match, with Via you can transform your data to a common coordinate system.

Full Animation – Create stunning animations based on simple points and attributes from CSV files or other data sourcs.

Many tools ans services produce data of objects moving around in time and space, MATSim is just one of many. GPS recordings and phone call records are more and more commonly available. Analyzing such data with traditional statistical tools often hit a barrier as they do not support the spatial nature of such data very well. GIS software on the other hand often has problems dealing with the temporal attributes of such data. Via, optimized to deal with large such data sets due to the support of MATSim results, is able to visualize and analyze arbitrary data sets with spatial and temporal attributes easily.

… and more!

Via is full of functionality.

  • Display custom ESRI Shape files for enhanced visualizations
  • Record screenshots of your visualizations
  • Save visualizations as PDF vector graphics
  • Define Views and Layer Styles to easily switch between different regions, zoom levels and optimal visualization styles
  • Cut networks to smaller regions to create extracts
  • Extend Via’s functionality with one or more plugins