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 # Introduction  
 
-Jülich Pedestrian Simulator (`JuPedSim`) is an open source framework for simulating pedestrian dynamics. 
+Jülich Pedestrian Simulator (`JuPedSim`) is an open source framework for simulating and analysing pedestrian dynamics. 
 
 This installer comes with four loosely coupled executables: