Mobility Simulation
Private vehicles, taxis, buses, trains and commercial traffic with detailed behavioural, electric and combustion-engine models.
A high-performance digital twin solution for city-scale transport systems
City-scale digital twins
CityMoS, the City Mobility Simulator, is software designed to create and study virtual copies, or digital twins, of existing and planned transport systems. This includes roads and vehicles, public transport and traffic lights.
Planners and operators can see how changes in the transport system might affect traffic flow, emissions or overall efficiency. For instance, they can analyse the effects of switching to electric buses or redesigning intersections on reducing carbon emissions.
CityMoS recreates and analyses areas ranging from individual roads and neighbourhoods to entire cities, providing insights for urban planning and development. It is best suited for analysis and planning, not live monitoring.
As an agent-based, microscopic simulator, CityMoS models vehicles as individual entities. Its high performance unlocks applications and use cases previously unsuited to high-detail simulation.
CityMoS simulates millions of vehicles and drivers over multiple days, enabling analysis of entire cities or highway networks on consumer hardware without expensive computing infrastructure.
Collaborator feedback
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“We engaged intobyte’s services for a project involving autonomous electric buses. Using CityMoS, we successfully evaluated key operational parameters for our proposed deployment and simulated a first-in-nation approach of using AV platooning. The team demonstrated a high level of professionalism and delivered compelling results within tight deadlines.”
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“We were highly impressed by the professionalism and expertise of the intobyte team throughout the BISTWIN project. They provided the CityMos framework with excellent support and ensured timely delivery of a robust digital twin solution. Their flexibility in integrating additional features tailored to our project needs was particularly valuable. intobyte’s team includes top experts in micro-mobility simulation, and their contributions made a real difference to the success of our work.”
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“The multi-year research collaboration between the CityMoS team and myself has been one of the most rewarding experiences during my stay in Singapore and beyond. Our work has been focused on modeling drivers’ behaviors in a mixed autonomous-human driving scenario and has extended the capabilities of CityMoS for the development and testing of autonomous driving algorithms and the study of traffic congestion effects. Looking forward to many more years of collaboration!”
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“CityMoS helped us to optimize the operational KPIs of autonomous electric vehicle fleets in public transport systems. Its capabilities are unique in the market, offering a wide variety of functionality from microscopic to macroscopic transport planning tasks. It is easy to use and facilitates insightful conclusion through comprehensive reporting.”
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“It was a great experience working with the energetic CityMoS team to develop high-performance solutions and witnessing its development over the years. I'm so happy to see that the CityMoS now has become a full-fledged mobility simulator with an array of features and has been used in developing so many applications.”
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“This collaboration between the research teams and relevant government agencies allows for integration of the best from two research institutes to address national level challenges.”
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“City-scale microscopic mobility simulation as enabled by CityMoS opens the pathway for a range of interesting applications such as studying large-scale effects of car-to-everything communication or supporting the transition to electric vehicles by providing fine-grained spatiotemporal insights on individual charging behaviour.”
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“The cooperation with the leading experts of TUMCREATE is an important milestone on the way to future smart mobility and transportation solutions. The joint lab is a reference example for close academic-industry cooperation and effective transfer of research results driven by academic flagship institutions to industry.”
Simulation capabilities
CityMoS simulates private, commercial and public transport in one high-performance environment.
Private vehicles, taxis, buses, trains and commercial traffic with detailed behavioural, electric and combustion-engine models.
Stops, termini, depots and rail systems with individual passengers, multimodal journeys, walking and transfer times.
Multi-shift taxis, private-hire vehicles, passenger demand and commercial delivery or carrier fleets.
Statistics, heatmaps, road colouring and vehicle information with touchscreen and full visualisation modes.
Application areas
CityMoS analyses different aspects of the transport system with a wide range of metrics, including travel times, waiting times, passenger demand and accident occurrences.
Learn more →CityMoS provides insights into the electrification of vehicles and monitors environmental parameters such as pollutant emissions at city scale.
Learn more →CityMoS helps businesses optimise their operations by evaluating traffic management, energy management and fleet performance.
Learn more →CityMoS employs technology to study Car-to-X communication, advanced driver assistance, autonomous transport and modern traffic control centres.
Learn more →Media coverage
CNA Singaporean public broadcast service coverage on the EV simulation model using CityMoS.
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CityMoS showcase at the 2022 ITS World Congress, presenting a market-ready mobility simulation product matured from research in Singapore.
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Dr Eckhoff explains what sets CityMoS apart and how the mobility simulation platform can be implemented in other cities.
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Singapore Business Review features the SITEM project, developed with CityMoS.
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TUM features CityMoS and how the team takes scientific knowledge from the lab to the real world in Singapore.
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A magazine for the German-speaking community explores the Singapore Green Plan and the role CityMoS plays.
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Pages 29–30 of NRF’s publication explain how CityMoS helps Singapore plan for an electric vehicle future.
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Edition 28 explores how TUMCREATE simulations model EV charging and the behaviour of the power grid in Singapore.
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CityMoS is part of the first island-wide integrated model providing a comprehensive impact analysis of projected EV charging demands.
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A feature on how the CityMoS simulation platform supports vehicle electrification.
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An optimised, flexible and demand-oriented solution integrating charging, logistics, energy and mobility management for electric vehicles in logistics depots.
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Innovations Report features the application of CityMoS in Singapore to model an entire city state.
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India’s Odisha Diary Foundation features how CityMoS supports Singapore in electrifying transportation.
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The magazine for technical and scientific articles features CityMoS and its application in Singapore.
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SmarterWorld covers how CityMoS is being applied in Singapore.
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A feature from the German government’s portal for international cooperation in education, science and research.
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The Swiss publication reports how CityMoS includes commuter traffic and urban public transport.
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The science and research news portal features how CityMoS supports Singapore’s electrification goals.
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