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.
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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. |
Help
The Visum help consists of a browser-based online help and a locally installed help for the COM interface.
The Visum help consists of two browser-based online helps, one for the program and one for the COM interface.
- The PTV Visum Help online help consists of two parts:
- The headers of the "Fundamentals" part have a blue background.
- The "Using Visum" part corresponds to the user manual. Its headers are highlighted in pink.
- The COM Help file contains a description of the COM interface and of the Python library of Visum, which allows you to create your own Python applications.
- The online help COM Help contains an introduction to COM programming and a description of the COM interface.
You can call the online help for Visum from the active program in different ways:
- With the context-sensitive call you will find the appropriate information for the currently active window or for the current view of Visum. Press the F1 key to access the context-sensitive online help.
- Regardless of the window you are currently working in or the current view mode, you can access the online help via Help > Visum Help.
- You can also open it from the Visum start page.
You can also access the COM/Python Help via the Help menu > COM Help.
