VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

The Pedestrians Editor (Add-on)
- The pedestrian belongs to a class that is contained in the partial
routing decision.
After having completed the partial route, the pedestrians continue to
follow their original routes from the partial route's destination area. It is
not necessary, however, that the area of the partial route decision
includes an intermediate point of the main route. Intermediate points of
the original route are ignored until the destination area of the partial
routing decision is reached. Multiple partial routes can overlap - the
complete current route (extending all the way to the destination of the
original route) is checked for the destination area of the partial routing
decision.
Partial routing decisions bear a Replacing Impact – in contrast to the
Adding Impact of a normal routing decision (main routes) which can only
take effect in two cases: Either the pedestrian is just entering the network
or the pedestrian has reached the destination of his former route on an
area which is carrying another routing decision.
7.1.8.2 Partial Routes for Pedestrians
A partial route for pedestrians can be either Static or Dynamic.
Only those pedestrians are regarded by a partial routing decision, whose
current route has either an intermediate point or the destination on exactly
the destination area of the partial routes starting from this partial routing
decision.
For partial routes it is sufficient if the pedestrian geometrically walks on the
area carrying the partial routing decision. In this case, the area does not
have to represent an intermediate point.
Please do not confuse static partial routes with static routes. Of the various
partial routes the static partial routes work as static routes, except that they
are partial routes. Therefore the naming similarity. To avoid confusion in
certain circumstances static routes are also called main routes.
► Static Partial Routes: Select Static as Route choice method and enter the
relative flow value for each user-defined time interval.
► Dynamic Partial Routes: Select a Route choice method other than Static
and set the appropriate parameters.
All partial routes starting from a partial routing decision lead to the same
destination area.
Overview of the Route choice methods for partial routes of pedestrians:
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