Standard maps
Cumulative High Density Map
This map shows how long various areas of a site have registered densities greater than a specified limit. The range of colours represent time. The map is similar to a 'temperature' map: areas that have experienced high levels of density for a long time appear red, those that have experienced shorter periods of density appear blue.
This map is best used for identifying 'hotspots' within a site: areas where high levels of density are sustained. It asks the questions is this design creating persistently uncomfortable crowd densities? and should it be altered to alleviate these problems?
Cumulative Max/Mean/Min Density Maps
These maps display the maximum, mean and minimum levels of density registered in an area from the beginning of playback to the current moment. They are generally used in combination with value ranges corresponding to widely used Levels of Service (Fruin's, USHCM, etc.).
They are best used for measuring the performance of a site against predetermined standards or imperatives such as 'the average density within a unit of space must not exceed Fruin's Level of Service x', etc.
Evacuation Time Map
Evacuation Time maps represent the amount of time that has elapsed from the beginning of playback to the most recent moment when an area was occupied. They are very useful for safety assessments (e.g. ‘train on fire’, ‘station on fire’) and egress assessments (time to clear a stadium or office building). They can also be used for platform capacity assessments, to show how quickly platforms clear following the arrival of a train.
Space Utilisation Map
The Space Utilisation Map reveals how much space within a site is being used. It records the location of every step of each Entity over the duration of the simulation. You can think of this as a clean floor surface getting slowly darker in proportion to usage: heavily used areas are generally coloured red, lightly used areas, blue. Areas of the simulation that are not used at all remain white (or black, if that is your chosen background colour).
The colour range represents the amount of time a unit of space has been occupied within the simulation. This unit of space for this (and all other maps in a given project) is set within the ‘Edit Project Settings’ dialog box (see Setting the map resolution). Its default setting is 10 x 10 cm which is suitable for all but very large models.
This map is best used for illustrating which areas of a site are used the most and the least. It can support questions such as if this area is not being used regularly, could it be used for a small kiosk or retail unit?
Underground Cumulative High Density (15 mins) Map
This map is based on the 2016 edition of Transport for London’s Station Modelling with LEGION: Best Practice Guide. It is particularly good for underground, metro, and subway systems and it uses a bespoke colour range named 'Underground Cumulative High Density'. Like every other type of map, however, you can customise its parameters and settings to suit your own iterations and observations and scenarios. In terms of Map Exclusions, this map's parameters automatically have 'Exclude Escalators and 'escalator' Drift Zones' selected.
The 15-minute version of this map generates Entity data in 15-minute batches before being reset by a 'Clear Map' events and recommencing for the second 15-minute period and so on. To go with this type of map, there is a default Analysis Timeline track named 'Save 15-minute Underground maps'.
Underground Cumulative High Density (60 mins) Map
This map is based on the 2016 edition of Transport for London’s Station Modelling with LEGION: Best Practice Guide. It is particularly good for underground, metro, and subway systems and it uses a bespoke colour range named 'Underground Cumulative High Density'. Like every other type of map, however, you can customise its parameters and settings to suit your own iterations and observations and scenarios. In terms of Map Exclusions, this map's parameters automatically have 'Exclude Escalators and 'escalator' Drift Zones' selected.
The 60-minute version of this map generates Entity data in 60-minute batches before being reset by a 'Clear Map' event and recommencing for the second 60-minute period (if the runtime is long enough) and so on. To go with this type of map, there is a default Analysis Timeline track named 'Save 60-minute Underground maps'.
Underground Cumulative Mean Density (15 mins) Map
This map is based on the 2016 edition of Transport for London’s Station Modelling with LEGION: Best Practice Guide. It is particularly good for underground, metro, and subway systems and it uses a bespoke colour range named 'Underground Cumulative High Density'. Like every other type of map, however, you can customise its parameters and settings to suit your own iterations and observations and scenarios. In terms of Map Exclusions, this map's parameters automatically have 'Exclude Escalators and 'escalator' Drift Zones' selected.
The 15-minute version of this map generates Entity data in 15-minute batches before being reset by a 'Clear Map' events and recommencing for the second 15-minute period and so on. To go with this type of map, there is a default Analysis Timeline track named 'Save 15-minute Underground maps'.
Underground Cumulative Mean Density (60 mins)
This map is based on the 2016 edition of Transport for London’s Station Modelling with LEGION: Best Practice Guide. It is particularly good for underground, metro, and subway systems and it uses a bespoke colour range named 'Underground Cumulative High Density'. Like every other type of map, however, you can customise its parameters and settings to suit your own iterations and observations and scenarios. In terms of Map Exclusions, this map's parameters automatically have 'Exclude Escalators and 'escalator' Drift Zones' selected.
The 60-minute version of this map generates Entity data in 60-minute batches before being reset by a 'Clear Map' event and recommencing for the second 60-minute period (if the runtime is long enough) and so on. To go with this type of map, there is a default Analysis Timeline track named 'Save 60-minute Underground maps'.