Creating Availability Profiles

Availability Profiles can be used with Spatial Objects to turn them ‘on’ or ‘off’ at specific times within a simulation. For instance, you may want to keep some ticket windows closed until peak hour and then make them available during the busy period.

This procedure assumes that your Data Profile page already contains time intervals as described in step one of "To define precise Arrival Profile data:" in Defining precise Arrival Profile data .

To create an Availability Profile:

In the first cell of a new row, select Availability Profile from the drop-down list.
In the next cell along, enter a name in the column labelled ‘Profile name’.
For each time division in which you want an object to be available, click in the corresponding cell and type on.
For each time division in which you want an object to be unavailable, click in the corresponding cell and type off.
You can also create Availability Profiles when generating frequency based arrivals on the ‘Origin Settings’ worksheet; see Creating Availability Profiles (Frequency based settings) .
For the relationship between Availability Profiles and Gate Control Profiles, see Gates, Gatelines, Gate Control Profiles and Availability Profiles .