Cities move.
Most models
don’t know that.

Pieter J. Fourie is a researcher, lecturer, and consultant specialising in urban mobility and resilience planning, with over 15 years as a core developer of MATSim — the world’s leading open-source framework for large-scale agent-based transport simulation.

His doctoral work at ETH Zurich, awarded the ETH Medal, pioneered data-driven transit simulation using smart card data to model entire public transport systems at city scale. He was part of the team that built the first agent-based transport simulation of Singapore in 2011, and subsequently led a three-year study for Singapore’s national authorities on the large-scale deployment of shared autonomous vehicles.

As Managing Director of the MATSim Association and associate professor at Hiroshima and Keio universities, Fourie sits at the intersection of computational research and applied urban planning — making him a direct bridge between DBF’s spatial analytics platform and the transport simulation rigour that city-scale decisions require.