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VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

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7 Simulation of Pedestrians<br />

Method Short description<br />

Static Fixed choice ratios set by the user<br />

Travel Time Dependence of choice ratios on the travel time of<br />

preceding pedestrians who have already finished<br />

the partial route<br />

Next free counter For approaching a set of parallel organized<br />

queues (respectively desks or counters)<br />

The dynamic route choice criterion Travel time<br />

The following steps are performed:<br />

► Initially the pedestrians are distributed equally on all routes of the<br />

decision, until each route has been concluded by at least one pedestrian.<br />

► <strong>VISSIM</strong> evaluates the travel times of the latest user-defined number of<br />

pedestrians who have concluded a route. (The default value of the userdefinable<br />

route choice method parameter is 10.)<br />

► Travel time of route i = Ti is the average of travel times of this user-defined<br />

number of pedestrians (respectively the pedestrians who have arrived at<br />

the route destination so far).<br />

The following route choice parameters are provided:<br />

Option Description<br />

Best Route The user-defined percentage of pedestrians uses the best<br />

route, i.e. the route with the minimum travel time.<br />

In case of two best routes, either route is charged equally.<br />

All other pedestrians are split randomly among all other<br />

routes.<br />

Kirchhoff The probability of a route is calculated as the inverse of the<br />

travel time to the power of the user-defined exponent a<br />

divided by the sum of these powers for all routes:<br />

(1/TravTime_i)^a / SumOfAllRoutes_i (1/TravTime_i)^a<br />

Logit The probability of a route is calculated as exp to the power of<br />

(the negative travel time divided by the user-defined<br />

denominator) divided by the sum of these powers for all<br />

routes:<br />

exp(-TravTime_i/denominator) / SumOfAllRoutes_i<br />

exp(-TravTime_i/denominator)<br />

Inverse<br />

Logit<br />

The probability of a route is calculated as exp to the power of<br />

(the user-defined numerator divided by the travel time)<br />

divided by the sum of these powers for all routes:<br />

exp(numerator/TravTime_i) / SumOfAllRoutes_i<br />

exp(numerator/TravTime_i)<br />

374 <strong>VISSIM</strong> <strong>5.30</strong>-<strong>05</strong> © PTV AG 2011

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