Selecting ANM file, configuring and starting data import

1. On the File menu, click > Import > ANM (Vistro/Visum).

The ANM import window opens.

2. Make the desired changes:

Element

Description

Import network data

If this option is selected: Enter a path and name of the *.anm file for the import of the abstract network model.

If this option is not selected, you can force a new import of the same routing data, which you initially imported with the abstract network model. Select the option Import routing.

Static Routing

Import routing for static routes

Note: If you had selected the option Static Routing for the initial import of the network data, no parking lots (zone connectors) were created. In this case, no adaptive import of routing data is possible for the dynamic assignment at a later time.

Dynamic assignment

Importing data for dynamic assignment. This way you ensure that the zones and/or parking lots as well as nodes of the network object type Node are generated.

Evaluation interval

Define the time interval for routing data of the dynamic assignment in which costs are calculated and paths searched.

Import routing

If this option is selected, routing data for static routing or for the dynamic assignment is imported.

If this option is not selected, then only the abstract network model is imported.

Warning: An ANM import generates a network file, which refers to the data in the *.anm file. This allows for the possibility of a current loaded network to be overwritten or deleted.

Vissim Input File

*.inpx network file, in which the network is saved. IYou must specify a network file, if you want to use adaptive import.

ANM network file

The backup file *.panm is copied to the directory in which the *.inpx network file is saved.

ANM Routes File

The *.panmroutes file is copied into the directory, in which the *.inpx network file is saved.

Show warnings during Import

If this option is selected, you must confirm every warning on the screen. The warnings are recorded in a log file and can be shown on the screen after the import.

Note the warnings and messages in the Messages window during the ANM import.

If this option is not selected, only the log file is generated and the list of warnings can be shown on the screen.

Complete routes after Import

only for adaptive ANM import:

If this option is selected, the available Vissim routes, which have been interrupted by the adaptive import, are automatically completed.

3. Click the Import button.

Notes:

As an alternative to the ANM import, you can drag and drop the *.anm file from the explorer to the Vissim window.
If no network is loaded, the *.anm file is imported.
If a network is loaded, which has been initially imported as a *.anm file, you can select whether this file should be read as adaptive or initial.

A network with network objects is generated (Generated network objects from the ANM import).

4. To show ANM import messages, on the View menu, click > Messages.

Superordinate topic:

Importing a network