VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

Dynamic Signal Timing Plan
► Multiple seconds of light blue: multiple events similar to the color change
black to light blue.
► Dark blue: A vehicle is detected at the end of the time step. Therefore, a
change from empty (black) to dark blue represents an arriving vehicle
that does not leave the detector within the same simulation second; a
longer dark blue bar represents a vehicle waiting on top of the detector.
This corresponds to the ‘|’ symbol in the Signal/Detector record.
Measurement of Time Spans: VISSIM provides a ruler to measure the span
between two times (e.g. the time between a particular detector call and the
start of the corresponding green phase). While in single step mode, click with
the left mouse button in the window, keep the button pressed and move the
mouse. VISSIM then displays the time span between the current mouse
position and position where the left button was pressed.
The width of an SC time step is 4 pixel in case of one SC time step per simulation
second. In case of two SC time steps per simulation second, the width
is reduced to just 2 pixel. In case of three or more time steps it will be just
one pixel. The cycle second is viewed every 10 simulation seconds, even if
the SC runs with more than one time steps per second. Scaling bars are
viewed every 5 seconds. If the control *.DLL (or *.EXE) contains the same simulation
second multiple times, only the first one is used for axis labelling.
Instead of only 500 time steps at most as known from previous versions, now
up to 5,000 control time steps are viewed.
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