Calculating dwell time with PTV Viswalk

You can define parameters for the calculation of the number of boarding passengers and the dwell time which occurs during microscopic pedestrian simulation. Example (Modeling pedestrians as PT passengers)

Note: For this, you require PTV Viswalk.

1.  Ensure that the following requirements are met:

• The PT stop must have at least one pedestrian area with the Public transport usage attribute allocated of the Waiting area or Platform edge type (Attributes of areas).
• At least one location distribution must be defined for alighting passengers (Using location distributions for boarding and alighting passengers in PT).
• At least one pedestrian composition has to be defined (Defining pedestrian compositions).

2.  On the network object sidebar, click Public Transport Stops or Public Transport Lines.

3.  In the network editor, right-click the PT stop.

4.  Click the shortcut menu and click Edit PT line <No. > Stop <No.> Pass <No.> next to the Edit PT Line Stop entry.

The PT Line Stop window opens.

5.  Make the desired changes (Editing a PT line stop).

6.  Confirm with OK.

Attributes for the micro-simulation of pedestrians of previous versions

• ►  If you would like to reproduce the results of earlier Vissim versions, select the following attributes:

Attribute	Network object type	Settings
Use minimum dwell time	PT line stop	Nothing selected
Late boarding possible	PT line stop	selected
Slack Time Fraction	Public transport line	no change
Departure offset	PT line stop	no change