VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

[PARKING
SPACES]
[SELECTION
PARAMETERS]
Automobile Traffic
Only relevant to parking lots of the Real
parking spaces type:
● Lane: Reference lane number for the
Location property.
● Location (only provided when creating
a parking lot, no subject to changes):
- on existing lane: The parking lot
is created on the selected
existing lane.
- on new lane added to the
right/left: A new lane is created
on the appropriate side of the
link/lane and the parking lot is
placed on it.
● Length of each space: Length
If the length total differs from the length resulting from the number of
parking spaces (which is automatically calculated) multiplied by the
Length of each space, then the remaining length difference will be placed
at the end of the parking lot in direction of flow. This section will not be
used by parking vehicles.
● Open hours: Time interval of availability
of the parking capacity; vehicles
will use this parking lot only during
opening hours and will not drive
there before or after.
● Maximum parking time:
- Type Real parking spaces:
vehicles having a longer dwell
time will not use this parking lot.
- Types Zone connector / Abstract
parking lot (only relevant if a trip
chain file is used): Time span, a
vehicle may use this parking lot.
The parking lot is not used by a
vehicle, if minimum dwell time
exceeds max. parking time.
● Attraction: The higher the value the more attractive is the parking space.
Thus any parking lot feature can be modeled which is not explicitly provided
as a property in VISSIM.
For Real parking spaces a First: and a Last: value have to be entered.
In case of identical values, all spaces provided by this parking lot are of
the same level of attractiveness. In case of different values, the
attractiveness of the spaces located in a row will increase/decrease
accordingly (linear function). To model a parking lot with the most
attractive spaces located either in the middle of the parking lot or - also in
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