Creating Exit Profiles

Exit Profiles are used to limit the number of Entities leaving the model through an Exit at certain times within a simulation. You might use an Exit Profile to make sure that only a small number of Entities are able to leave your model when, for example, there is some congestion beyond an Exit that is not explicitly simulated by your model.

To complete an Exit Profile, you need to have defined time intervals for your model as described in step one of To define precise Arrival Profile data. You can use existing time intervals if you have them, or enter new ones on a fresh row.

To create an Exit Profile:

In the first cell of a new row, select Exit Profile from the drop-down list.
In the next cell along, enter a name in the column labelled ‘Profile name’.
Note: If you enter 2, this means that two Entities per minute will be allowed to leave through the Exit for the duration of the time interval.
Under each relevant time interval, enter the number of Entities per minute that are allowed to leave through the Exit at this point.