VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

11 Evaluation Types for Simulations of Vehicles
11.15 Lane Changes
This evaluation provides data according to when and where lane changes of
vehicles happened.
Definition
No additional definition required.
Configuration
In order to get the desired output data additional information is needed. This
is accessible by pressing the FILTER button in EVALUATION – FILES… -
[VEHICLES], once the option Lane Change is ticked.
Filter
The Lane Change Evaluation Filter window is similar to the Vehicle Record
Filter window. For further information on the filter definition cf. section 11.7.
Filter parameters are saved to *.LCF file.
Results
For every vehicle captured by the filter definitions, every lane change event
will be logged into a lane change file (*.SPW).
► File title
► Path and name of the input file (File)
► Simulation comment (Comment)
► Date and time of the evaluation (Date)
► Version no. with Service pack no. and Build no. (VISSIM)
► Data block with
- Time when the lane change starts
The end of the time step in which the lane change starts is output. If the
simulation is run with only one time step per simulation second, the lane
change has started about one second ago at this point in time.
- Vehicle number
- Speed [m/s]
- Link number
- Number of the old lane
- Number of the new lane
and for both the old and new vehicles in front (VF) and the old/new
vehicles in the back (VB):
- Vehicle number (0 if not existing)
- Speed [m/s]
- Speed Difference [m/s]
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