Manual

The Visum documentation consists of the Fundamentals volume and the User Manual volume, which complement each other.

The Fundamentals volume (chapters 2-15) provides information on the theoretical background of transport modeling, the basic approach applied by the software, network model design, and the procedures used to calculate the impact of transport supply. For a better comprehension of the procedures, their effectiveness is demonstrated with a short and simple example of transport supply. The network data used to illustrate the example is supplied with Visum, which allows you to reproduce the calculations and results in Visum.

The User Manual volume (chapters 16-32) provides you with all the information you need to carry out transportation planning with Visum. For each chapter in the Fundamentals volume, you will find a corresponding chapter here that illustrates its practical implementation using Visum. In addition, there is a chapter in the User Manual that provides an overview of the interfaces to other programs, a chapter on the add-on program Safety, and a chapter on interactive script reading.

Note: You can find the manual in PDF format in the Doc/Eng directory of your Visum installation folder, once the installation has been completed. You may also access the manual during a program session via the Help menu > PTV Visum manual.