VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

5.3.2 Vehicle Classes
Vehicle Type, Class and Category
A vehicle class represents a logical container for one or more previously
defined vehicle types. A vehicle type can also be part of several vehicle
classes, thus “overlapping” classes are possible.
Vehicle classes can be defined and edited via BASE DATA – VEHICLE CLASSES.
The Vehicle Classes window contains a list of all
classes defined. Use the control buttons to the
right to edit the list.
To define a Vehicle Class, all of the vehicle types
that are to be included must be highlighted in the
list of Vehicle Types. A multi-selection is done by
pressing CTRL while clicking on the desired
vehicle type(s).
Furthermore, the following parameters
may be defined:
● No.: Unique identification of the class
● Name: Label of the class
● COLOR (only active, if option Use
vehicle type color is unchecked):
Defines the vehicle color for all
vehicle types contained in that class.
This overrides all color information of
the vehicle types and can be used to
identify vehicles of a certain class by
color, cf. section 4.2.2.1.
● Use vehicle type color: If checked, the vehicle color is determined by
each vehicle type (or PT route respectively).
A new class can be used to collect data specifically for certain vehicle
types or to distinguish those vehicles by color during a simulation.
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