Saving PT waiting time data to a file

This record contains the duration of each stop, which is not due to boarding and alighting or due to a stop sign, for each PT vehicle. The evaluation is performed in chronological order. You can further edit the evaluation, for example, in a spreadsheet program.

Output data and formats

You can save the following data and data formats:

Output	ASCII file	MDB table
Aggregated data	-	-
Raw data	*.ovw	-

Note: This evaluation always uses metric units.

• Save raw data to a file (Using the Direct output function to save evaluation results to files)

Result of evaluation of PT waiting times

A PT waiting time evaluation *.ovw contains the following information:

Element	Description
File title	Name of evaluation
File	Path and name of network file
Comment	Optional comment from the simulation parameters
Date	Time of evaluation
Vissim	Version number, service pack number, build number
Data	The data block includes: one column per attribute one row per PT vehicle stop which is not used for boarding and alighting or caused by a stop sign.

The data block of the evaluation file always shows the following attributes in this sequence:

Column	Description
Time	Simulation second at the end of wait time
VehNo	Number of the vehicle
Line	Number of PT line
Link	Number of link
At	Exact position on the link in [m]
Duration	Wait time [s]

Example of PT evaluation file *.ovw

Table of PT waiting times

            
File:    C:\Users\Public\Documents\PTV Vision\PTV Vissim 2024\Examples Demo\example.inpx
Comment:  Example, SC 3-10

Date:    03.01.2024 12:23:33

PTV Vissim 2024.00-00* [253691]

 
Time  VehNo  Line    Link  At  Duration
   55    72   206    2006   92.20     2
   96     2   218     103  320.78    16
   98    72   206     103  254.35     8
  122     3   101     110  537.28     5
  140     1  1110     104   10.66     3
  142    72   206     103  320.79    26
  180    72   206     102   91.89    15
  203    72   206     102   93.38    20
  233     2   218     106   82.44     1
  259   221  1103     220  250.52    80
  260   219  1109     220  236.18    64
  265   325 12121     220  203.25     7
  265   220  1105     201   56.41    40
  271   315   106     107  216.91     8
  275     2   218     109   69.59    15
  290   326  2105     346    9.22    51
  291   220  1105       9   29.68    13