VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

6 The Traffic Network
If a platform edge is created, the Volume [Pers/h] term in the Boarding
Passengers windows will change to Relative volume. Any stop with an area
defined for PT usage is used by passengers that have been generated as
pedestrians. To the PT lines, these passengers are distributed as
percentages.
Without the Pedestrians add-on and as well-known from previous VISSIM
versions, passenger volumes are distributed exactly according to the given
volume numbers per PT stop.
As a property of a pedestrian area, the usage as a platform edge or as a
waiting area for one or more selected PT stops can be defined, cf. section
7.1.4. The shape of this platform edge is given by the pedestrian area
polygon which is to be defined manually by the user.
A pedestrian area which is automatically created as a platform edge due to
this option, always follows the course of the particular section of the link on
which the PT stop has been placed. The width of an automatically created
pedestrian area is 2 m by default.
● PASSENGERS... (only for use with
dwell time calculation): Opens the
Boarding Passengers window which
allows for definition of a passenger
flow profile to wait for PT vehicles.
Use the buttons EDIT, NEW or DELETE
to modify the profile.
A passenger profile contains the following
information:
- Volume: Passenger flow as persons per
hour (independent of the time interval
defined)
- from/until: Time interval for which
passengers are generated
- Used PT Lines: Select all lines which
passengers of this profile can use.
Multiple lines can be selected by
pressing CTRL while clicking.
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