Using vehicle types

A vehicle type allows you to form a group of vehicles with the same technical driving characteristics. The vehicle type data is also included in the emission calculation. Vissim provides the following default vehicle types:

• Car
• HGV
• Bus
• Tram
• Man
• Woman
• Bike Man
• Bike Woman

Based on these vehicle types, you can define additional vehicle types of your own, for example, trailer truck, articulated truck, standard bus, articulated bus.

If vehicles in a vehicle category have different speed or acceleration behavior, you define each vehicle type separately.

If vehicles of one type only differ in their shape, length or width, you may distinguish them by 2D/3D model distribution or color distribution and still manage them under the same vehicle type.

• Example 1: The models Car1 to Car6 represent vehicle models that differ in length, but have a similar driving behavior. This is why they can be defined under a single vehicle type, using 2D/3D model distribution for these 6 vehicles.
• Example 2: Standard and articulated buses only differ in length. This is why you can define them under a single vehicle type, using 2D/3D model distribution for the two vehicle models. To distinguish between standard and articulated buses for PT lines, you need to define standard buses and articulated buses as two separate vehicle types.