VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

4 View Settings
4.3.3 3D Animation of PT Vehicle Doors
Select the 3D Model of the PT vehicle via BASE DATA – DISTRIBUTIONS - 2D/3D
MODEL... - 2D/3D Model Distributions, cf. section 5.2.5.2.
If the *.V3D model file stores also vehicle doors for the 3D model, the
opening and closing of sliding doors (also double doors) is visualized in the
3D mode.
Here, the following applies:
► For animated display, the doors need to satisfy the following conditions:
- Boarding and/or alighting must be permitted for the door and at the
stop.
- The door is located at a valid position at a platform edge.
Without a platform edge, which is only required for pedestrians as
passengers, the door needs to be in a valid position between start
and end of the PT stop.
► Temporal restrictions:
As soon as the vehicle does no longer move at the PT stop, the opening
of the vehicle doors starts which lasts 1.5 seconds.
The closing of the doors depends:
- For calculated dwell times: The closing of the vehicle doors starts 3
seconds prior to the end of the vehicle´s dwell time at the stop.
- For “real” pedestrian flows: The doors start closing, if no passenger
has tried to use one of the vehicle´s doors for boarding or alighting
during the last 3 seconds.
Door closing always takes 2 seconds.
- During the first of these two seconds, the doors will open again if a
passenger wants to board or alight.
- During the second of these two seconds, the passengers behave as
if the doors were already closed.
When the doors are closed, the vehicle waits another seconds and will
depart then.
The number of time steps depends of the simulation resolution.
► During the opening process, shifting the door polygons is performed as
follows:
- By 6 cm perpendicular to the vehicle for 0.3 s
- By the width of the door in parallel to the vehicle element heading to
the direction with the bigger distance to the next door (or end of the
vehicle, if applicable).
Closing the doors means the reverse order and direction of these two
polygon shifting steps.
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