VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

The Pedestrians Editor (Add-on)
To make the static partial route choice apply, the destinations of all partial
routes need also to include an (intermediate) routing point of the main route.
Without static partial routes, the long main routes would have to be defined
as a whole as many times, as there are local alternatives on the area in
common.
Use case 2
A problem with ticket gates is that simulated pedestrians mostly prefer to
walk on the shortest path. They do not automatically detour to save time,
even if the detour is as short as in the case of ticket gates. Therefore – if the
pedestrians do not approach orthogonally to the line of ticket gates – they
may cram unrealistically into one or two ticket gates, ignoring any other.
Static partial routes do not solve the problem (for this purpose, dynamic
partial routes should be applied, which will be provided soon) but help to
build a workaround.
As the coordinate of a pedestrian being a few meters ahead of the ticket
gates determines to some extent, which ticket gate he would use in reality,
one can use the “catch all” ability of static partial routing decisions to guide
him through that particular ticket gate, as to be seen from the figures below.
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