Creating an Arrival Profile manually
You can also create Arrival Profiles manually by entering the required information into the worksheet.
In this procedure, if you want to create a pending Entrance after import (with an associated Demand Line) then you must supply the Origin name, Supply/Entity Type and Destination; if you just want to import the Arrival Profile, leave these three options blank.
To create an Arrival Profile manually:
- Enter a start and end time for your profile in columns J and K underneath the heading ‘Time intervals [hh.mm.ss]’
- In the first cell of a new row, select Arrival Profile from the drop-down list.
- In the next cell along, enter a name in the column labelled ‘Profile name’.
- In the next cell along, select an ‘Origin name’ from the drop-down list or type in your own.
- In the next cell along, select a ‘Supply/Entity Type’ from the drop-down list.
- In the next cell along, select a ‘Destination’ from the drop-down list, or type in your own.
- To add a range of statistical noise to your data, specify minimum and maximum levels in each profile’s ‘Noise’ cell, separating them with a comma.
- If you wish to spread the OD matrix data over the course of the model runtime or over a specific time, enter a value (in seconds) in the cell labelled ‘Spread’, equivalent to the runtime of the simulation.
- Add the total number of demand in the first cell of the profile (column J in our template). If you want to add precise data linked to specified time intervals, see the next procedure.