Defining PT stops

Before modeling, you must define whether or not the passengers at the public transport stop should be taken into consideration in the simulation:

• Without passengers: Select a pre-defined dwell time distribution per public transport stop and PT line.
• Boarding passenger profile: Allocate Volumes as hourly values to the lines on the public transport stop. Select the PT parameters per vehicle type.
• Viswalk for microscopic pedestrian simulations: Define at least one pedestrian area with the attributes PT usage - Waiting area or PT usage - Platform edge at the stop.

Parameterize the public transport stops according to the method of your choice (Calculating the public transport dwell time for PT lines and partial PT routes). In the network you can combine public transport stops of these three methods with each other. Then the parameterization of a public transport stop applies to all lines which operate at this public transport stop.

• For each defined public transport stop, you can set specific PT line stop parameters for each PT line and PT partial route (Modeling PT lines).
• For the microscopic pedestrian simulation with Viswalk, the length of the public transport stop must correspond with at least the length of the longest PT vehicle, which operates at this public transport stop. Doors of the vehicle, which at the time of the stop are not positioned at the platform edge, are not used by the passengers.
• You can also define a public transport stop, in which boarding and alighting by multiple PT vehicles takes place at the same time. For this to occur, the length of the public transport stop must be correspondingly defined: at least the sum of all vehicle lengths must have enough space, behind and between the vehicles, which operate simultaneously at the public transport stop.
• On a multiple lane link, the PT vehicles can enter or exit when there is a large enough gap.
• On a single lane link, for example for bus bays, a following vehicle can only exit once the preceding vehicle has exited.
• If you move PT stops that a PT line uses, these PT stops are shown as inactive, in green.

Notes:   You can specify that you need not press the Ctrl key when adding network objects (Right-click behavior and action after creating an object). For some network objects there are windows in which the attributes of a network object can be defined and edited. There are lists for this, for all network objects. You can choose whether you want to open a window, a list or neither of the two for the definition of network objects in the Network Editor (Right-click behavior and action after creating an object).

1.  On the network object sidebar, click Public Transport Stops.

2.  With the mouse pointer, point to the position in the link at which the public transport stop is to begin.

3.  Hold down the Ctrl key and the right mouse button, and drag the mouse pointer to the desired end position.

4.  Release the keys.

The public transport stop is inserted. The PT Stop window opens.

The basic attributes of the network element are shown in the upper area of the window and in the list of network objects for the particular network object type.

5.  Edit the attributes (Attributes of PT stops).

6.  Confirm with OK.

The attributes are saved in the list Public transport stops.