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| New theatre | Create a station | Clone stations | First paths, nodes | Inspect nodes | More paths, nodes | Add termini | Start create a metroline | Add nodes to a metroline | End the metroline | Test the metroline | |
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New theatre: Run the MetroModSim application and create a new model document. Notice that dimensions are in Km. The operations theatre is the area where your model will be represented and, later, simulated. |
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Create a station: Use the toolbar button 'CSU[metro-stop]' to create the first 'station' of your model. Once you enter the coordinates where to display the station, a CSU-station icon will appear in the modeller window. The easiest way to build your model is to clone this icon each time you need a new station in the system. |
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Clone stations: Choose the select mode from the main toolbar. The cursor becomes a hand. This means that you can move or copy (clone) most of the objects, if previously selected. To select an object: simply click on it. A red boundary will appear if the object is properly selected. To move an object: drag the mouse near the selected object. To clone an object: same as moving the object, but with the keyboard <ctrl> key pressed down. |
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First paths, nodes: First, give a name to each CSU station, using the right-mouse-click over each station icon. Then choose draw paths mode from the main toolbar. The cursor becomes a cross. Now you may draw paths. Create the first paths connecting the metro stations, as suggested in the figure. Finally, create the first
nodes
with the command 'Create->NetworkNodes'.
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Inspect nodes: Zoom in into each node created and inspect the connections between paths. Inspect also the nodes themselves and find out if they are linked to the correct input and output paths. If a station-icon will be near a node, probably this will be a CSU-node associated to that station. If that happens, the node shows no hexagon around and its name will be set the same as the stations' name. Repeat procedures till you are sure all objects are correctly linked. |
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More paths, nodes: Once the first paths are correctly interconnected and stations properly linked to nodes, the rest of your network can be represented. Use again the 'paths-mode' to draw the rest of the paths and represent the entire system. Attention to distances, since now you know a node can be incorrectly created. |
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Add termini: When the entire metro network is drawn, and you are sure that all paths are well connected and CSUs well associated to nodes, it is time to focus the attention on termini. Terminus by terminus, draw the paths connecting the two nodes of the respective CSU in a way to create at least a park-node in between. This park-node will be the place where vehicles will invert their movement. Get some help from the figure.
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Start create a metroline: A first metroline may be created in order to help testing the consistency of the model, by lauching some vehicles into the system. Start a metroline by choosing its first node and using the command 'New Metro-line' from the node's floating menu. The rest of the metroline
will be created by adding nodes with the help of the mouse (see
down).
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Add nodes to the metroline: After creating the first node of the metroline, a new option will appear in the nodes' floating menu: the 'Add node to Line'. By using the 'Add node to Line' command, the user may add new nodes to the new metroline. Use this option to add all the other metroline nodes, except the last one. |
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End the metroline: Ending a metroline means adding its end node, or last node. After that, the metroline is considered complete. Adding the last node differs from adding intermediate nodes, since now you must use again the 'New Metro-Line... (begin/end)' command. The node is added to the metroline and the process is complete. It will be required a name for the new metroline. From now on, the new metroline properties can be accessed from the main toolbar. |
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Test the metroline: An excellent method for testing a metroline is to inject into it a vehicle and then run the simulation. This will help on detecting any problem related to that metroline. Normally, when a metroline works fine with a vehicle it means it will work properly with any number of vehicles too. The injection of vehicles into a metroline is done through the timetable dialog box, which is accessible from the node's floating menu. |
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Contacts: J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira emails: [email protected]; [email protected] urls: http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz; http://geinsrv.fe.up.pt/feliz |