Applying Pulse
The Pulse function enables you to quickly define a Standard Pulse (single fixed value over a given time interval) or a Pulse Train (repeated standard pulse over a specified period of time).
The following procedures assume that you have already selected a suitable Data Profile. Availability profiles work slightly differently from the other data profiles, so their procedures are described in Applying Pulse to Availability Profiles .
To apply Pulse:
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Right-click in the graph and select
.
The ‘Pulse/Pulse Train’ dialog box is displayed.
- Enter the Start time for the Pulse in seconds.
- Enter the Duration of the Pulse in seconds.
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Enter the number of
People (Entities) to apply to each second of
the Pulse.
To apply a Pulse Train at this point, see the next procedure below.
- If you don’t want the pulse to overwrite the existing data and prefer the pulse to be added to the existing data, untick the Overwrite box under ‘Pulse Application’.
- Click the OK button to apply the Pulse to the Data Profile.
To apply Pulse Train:
- Enter the Pulse settings as described in the procedure above.
- Tick the Pulse Train box.
- In the On Duration box, specify the number of seconds that the pulse will apply the ‘People’ value in a single cycle of the pulse.
- In the Off Duration box, specify the number of seconds that the pulse will not apply the pedestrians value (that is, no demand will be applied) in a single cycle of the pulse.
- If you don’t want the Pulse to overwrite the existing data and prefer the pulse to be added to the existing data, untick the Overwrite box.
- Click the OK button to apply the Pulse Train.