Cities build infrastructure on instinct. MATRIX gives planners, developers, and civic stakeholders a simulator to ask what would happen if we build this, before a single peso is spent.
Infrastructure failure in ASEAN suburban cities is not a planning skill problem. It is a planning visibility problem.
A traffic count from 2022 will not predict how a new mall reshapes every household within three kilometers. Spreadsheet models ignore which jeepney route gains demand, which barangay loses footfall, and which flood corridor gets blocked.
Environmental, transport, economic, and social reviews sit in different offices. No tool currently lets a planner simulate all five impact dimensions of the same project in one run.
Vissim, Aimsun, CityEngine, and AnyLogic need engineers or modelers. None accept a plain-language what-if from a city planner with no technical background.
The cumulative cost lands on commuters paying for first-mile travel planners never modeled, informal vendors displaced without warning, barangays that flood because runoff was calculated in isolation, and developers whose entrances open onto the wrong side of the street.
Three constituencies ask the same pre-construction question from different angles.
Iloilo CPDO, NEDA Region VI, DOTr Regional Office VI
Pre-evaluate infrastructure proposals, prioritize capital projects, and validate impact assessments with simulation-backed evidence.
Megaworld Iloilo Business Park, Ayala Land, local developers
Site selection, building placement, entrance design, and anticipating community pushback before public consultation.
UP Visayas SURP, Clean Air Asia, ICLEI, transport cooperatives
Independent verification of impact claims, academic research, and policy advocacy with simulation-backed evidence.
Real-time simulators tell a city what is happening. MATRIX tells it what will happen if it builds.
Multi-billion-peso infrastructure is decided on static studies that age the day they are filed. MATRIX simulates community impact before a single peso is spent: five dimensions, explicit confidence, about 90 seconds, every number traceable to its data and equation.
Based on a feature survey of tools planners actually evaluate, not an exhaustive procurement audit. The gap is the combination: natural-language input, five impact dimensions scored against one simulated reality, and per-dimension confidence.
| Tool | Strength | NL input | 5 dims, one run | Per-dim confidence | Needs specialist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTV Vissim / Aimsun | Microscopic traffic simulation | No | No | No | Yes |
| ESRI CityEngine | 3D urban / GIS modeling | No | No | No | Yes |
| Replica | Data-driven mobility / activity models | Partial | No | No | Yes |
| UrbanFootprint | Land-use + environmental scenario planning | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| AnyLogic | General multi-method simulation | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| MATRIX | Pre-construction 5-dim impact, glass-box | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes(human-in-the-loop) |
Geographic scaling is API-level: new city means a new OSM bounding box and municipal data sources. Behavioral scaling is prompt-level: persona archetypes reweight from Iloilo jeepney commuters to Jakarta ojek riders. No hardware, no IoT sensors.
| City | Mobility pattern | Open data |
|---|---|---|
| Jakarta | Ojek, angkot, bajaj, BRT TransJakarta | TransJakarta GTFS, OSM strong |
| Bangkok | Songthaew, tuk-tuk, motorcycle taxi, BTS/MRT | Strong GTFS, OSM strong |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Xe om, xe buyt, metro under construction | Limited GTFS, OSM strong |
| Kuala Lumpur | Rapid KL, bas mini, e-hailing | Rapid KL GTFS, OSM strong |
Iloilo's 2026 ASEAN Clean Tourist City Award (2nd time, awarded Jan 30, 2026 in Cebu) anchors the regional pilot.
Plain-language input, five impact dimensions from one simulated reality, and per-dimension confidence: a combination not found in the tools planners typically evaluate.
Interactive visualization with animated agent playback, unified-kernel architecture, and confidence-anchored outputs that respect data limits honestly.
Iloilo is actively building the data infrastructure MATRIX consumes. The ASEAN scaling path is concrete with no hardware dependency.
Animated simulation playback shows how a project ripples through a city. Five dimensions tell one coherent story, anchored to Iloilo's 2026 ASEAN Clean Tourist City Award.
Polytechnic University of the Philippines