Defining pedestrian links

You can define existing links as pedestrian links or create new pedestrian links. On the pedestrian links, you can position signal heads, detectors, priority rules or conflict areas for pedestrians. You cannot insert intermediate points in pedestrian links.

For the pedestrian link, you may enable the Consider Vehicles in Dynamic Potential of Pedestrians option. Pedestrians using the pedestrian link will thus avoid collision with vehicles in a conflict area, which is located between the vehicle link and the pedestrian link.

1.  To insert a new pedestrian link, define the link (Defining links).

2.  After you have added the new link, or when you want to define an existing link as a pedestrian link, display the link attributes in the Link window or the Links list (Attributes of links).

3.  Open the Link window and click the Pedestrian Area tab.

4.  For the link, select the IsPedArea attribute (Is pedestrian area).

Vissim inserts the following pedestrian links with identical coordinates. Both pedestrian links overlap. Then the pedestrian link can be used in both directions. Vehicles cannot use a pedestrian link.

• Pedestrian link no. 1, with the direction you dragged the link open in the Network editor.
• Pedestrian link no. 2, with the opposite direction.

5.  If pedestrians using the link should avoid collision with vehicles in conflict areas, enable the Consider vehicles in dynamic potential option.

6.  For the Level attribute, select the level of your choice (Attributes of links), (Defining levels).

7.  If desired, edit the other attributes (Attributes of links).

8.  Confirm with OK.