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VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

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The Pedestrians Editor (Add-on)<br />

- The higher the value, the more sensible is the reaction of the<br />

pedestrians to the movement of pedestrians in front of them. At<br />

values near 100% this can cause unrealistic behavior.<br />

► Set the length of the Calculation time interval for the update of the<br />

potential. The method of the dynamic potential takes quite some time to<br />

be calculated, increasing this value may help on slower PCs or with<br />

many dynamic potentials activated that the simulation speed will stay<br />

reasonable. However, so far the experience is that the smaller the value,<br />

the better the results are.<br />

► Close the dialog. The blue or green dot of the route now changes to be a<br />

square, which visually marks those destinations for which the dynamic<br />

potential has been activated.<br />

7.1.8.11 Dynamic Potential: Properties & Options<br />

How to select a route for changes to the current dynamic potential settings is<br />

described in section 7.1.8.10.<br />

● Use Dynamic Potential: Activate this option to use the dynamic potential<br />

for way-finding.<br />

● Impact: Enter the impact as percentage for correct modeling of the<br />

strength of influence of the dynamic potential on the behavior of the<br />

pedestrians.<br />

● Calculation time interval: Enter the length of the interval between two<br />

updates of the potential in simulation seconds.<br />

7.1.8.12 Dynamic Potential: Description of the Method<br />

To understand the essentials of the dynamic potential method one first has to<br />

ask, how in general pedestrians in the simulation find their next destination<br />

area. This is accomplished by having the driving force of the social force<br />

model point into the direction of the next destination as long as the<br />

pedestrian does not already walk into that direction:<br />

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