The idea is now: how can we bring us to the next level - how can we bring in more information from both models?
Exchange the information in a smarter way to get you a better level of integration
that then provides more sensitivities in the model.
So that's why you brought in a bunch of "stars" from around the world to discuss these topics here.
So we picked people who are known in the field of integrated land transport modelling worldwide.
So its people from the American continent, from all over Europe came here together. They published a lot.
And also I picked people who I knew, who are interested in exchanging ideas.
So we came to Raitenhaslach in part, because we decided we want to be in a place
and a little bit isolated from the rest of the world.
That gives us an opportunity to bring in people here and make them to stay here throughout the entire Symposium.
If you're in Munich at TUM, people would come and go and everybody is busy. So everybody would follow other travel schedules.
But once you are here you have to be here.
So we looked at this castle last night which is the longest castle all over the world.
It's a fascinating sight and a very very good guide who gave us a brilliant tour.
She really knew the history. It was interesting because it was freezing cold
We were outside the entire time. But the entire group stayed togehter with walking
through the entire castle and listening to the entire guided tour which I thought was super.
What I really enjoyed was the general agreement that moving towards microsimulation is the way to go
because it helps us to store data at a microscopic level and different models can work with this microscopic data,
grab the data, aggregate this in the way they need the data to use.
But then put the data back in the microscopic way. And by storing data in the microscopic way
we build in a lot of flexibility and models can work at different resolutions, both spatially and temporally.
And that was surprising to me that there was this general agreement, that's a way to go,
that's where the profession should move.
