Automated flow-rate analyses for Stair and Escalator objects
Measuring and analysing flow rates on stairs and escalators is fundamental to most models. Rather than manually drawing Analysis Lines and setting up analyses, you can automatically calculate flow rates for any Stair and Escalator objects in your model. For each of these objects, a pair of Analysis Lines will be placed across the top and bottom and an Analysis will be created. The Scope of such an automated Analysis will be the pair of Analysis Lines, the Entity Filter will be 'All' Entities and the Metrics will be 'Entity Count/Flow Rate' and 'Normalised Flow Rate'.
This procedure assumes you have a model open, and that your model contains stairs and/or escalators.
To set up automated flow-rate analyses:
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Select
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The 'Stair and Escalator Analysis Properties' dialog is displayed.
- Check one or both of the 'Analysis Line Placement' options (boarding and/or alighting), depending on the focus of your analysis.
- Set the 'Accumulation Interval'. This value determines the time period that values are averaged over when you display an ‘Average Values’ graph.
- Click OK.
