Question about reasonable population ratio to get acceptable results in drt mode + Question about multi modal transport in drt

[Areza622]

Hello. I have some questions and I would be thankful if you help me on them:

1. For a city with real 300,000 population, what is a logical number of population sample to get acceptable results for evaluating autonomus ride-pooling service?

2. I ran my drt scenario using "matsim maas" project, in my plans I have 3 activities: home,shopping and work, should I add some codes in config file regarding these activies or just writing them in plans file is enough?

3. Using door2door example in matsim maas, how can I allow people to also use private cars in addition to drt service? also how can I run my simulation by only private cars and then compare these two scenarios?

4. In the config file "drtconfig_door2door" in matsim maas, there are some paramters like: basefare,travelTimeEstimationAlpha and etc but I cannot fine related information about them and don't understand how they affect the simulation, is there a reference to read about each of them?(I could not find anything in MATsim tutorial and main pdf book)

5. In general in drt scenario what is the difference between a normal vehicle and an autonomus vehicle?(logically it only affects the number of available seats, is it right or there are other effects as well?)

Thank you for your consideration.