Vissim student version
I'm talking about lorries dropping their daily delivery by stopping in front of their destination in the middle of the traffic flow. On this road we have a lot of 'illegal parking activity'. Last year I had a (commercial) assignment of creating a simulation for a city arterial. (beforehand please note that I am no VISSIM expert) This utility seems useful, but here's another approach. If you find it useful or interesting, or just sucks, please don’t hesitate to drop me a “thank you” message or tell me “it stinks” or whatever. After all, it is a very simple tool anyway. You can control the simulation speed by sliding the “ Simulation Speed” track bar. This boils down to the following lane closure configuration file: 20-LaneClose-1-1-2-10-20-Įssentially, the above configuration says: at time 20 seconds, close Lane 1 of Link 1 to Vehicle Class 10 and Vehicle Class 20Īt time 40 seconds, close Lane 2 of Link 1 to Vehicle Class 10 and Vehicle Class 20Īt time 60 seconds, open Lane 2 of Link 1 to Vehicle Class 10 and Vehicle Class 20Īt time 1000 seconds, open Lane 1 of Link 1 to Vehicle Class 10 and Vehicle Class 20Īfter specifying the schedule, load the VISSIM network file and click “Run VISSIM”, then VISSIM will be launched. The following is the snapshot of the user interface.Ī lane closure event is defined as an ensemble of the following elements: Scheduled Time, in seconds counted from the simulation start time
VISSIM STUDENT VERSION INSTALL
The download package includes a little demo and a quick video tutorial (you might need to install tscc CODEC to play the video, though).
VISSIM STUDENT VERSION 64 BIT
The utility is built both as 32 bit and 64 bit programs, to work with respective VISSIM 32 bit or 64bit. The updated lane closure utility can be downloaded from the following link: Because PTV won’t change VISSIM COM Lib’s GUID with its service packs, the utility should work with all service packs of the same major version. I just updated this small utility to be compatible with this latest VISSIM 5.4 version. Since VISSIM does not provide a convenient off-the-shelf solution for this type of situation, there have been surprisingly quite some VISSIM users, including university faculties, graduate students, traffic engineers contacted me for accessing this utility, to use in their engineering projects, research dissertations and others.Īs of today, the latest VISSIM version available to North American users is 5.40 (SP3). This “limitation” might be awkward sometimes, if you do not mean to close the lane for the entire simulation period, but just want to close the lane at certain point, and re-open it at a later time during the simulation. Once you specify a lane closure at the beginning, it will be literally a lane closure throughout the entire simulation period. Interestingly, over the years PTV didn’t bother to implement this “dynamic lane closure” as its default feature. The tool can be pretty handy for modelling lane closure ( You Bet!), incidents, evacuation contraflow, work zones etc. It utilizes VISSIM COM interface to dynamically close or open any lane of any link at any time, during the simulation. The “Lane Closure Utility” is a hobby tool I developed when I was a graduate student 5 years ago. This post has already been read 14382 times!