Service
A Service represents a particular Train system, for example:
- London-to-Birmingham – Platform 1 – Virgin Trains
- London-to-Birmingham – Platform 1 – West Midlands Trains
When the ‘Service’ button on the Objects toolbar is clicked, a dialog opens for defining new Services, or editing existing ones. In a Service's ‘Parameters’ tab, associate a Train with the Service. Choose whether to populate alighters near Train doors, or randomly throughout the Carriages.
- When ‘Populate alighters near the doors’ is off, alighters are populated randomly throughout the Train interior. Alighting may be impeded by passengers staying on the Train.
- When on, alighters are populated so they are the nearest passengers to the doors, enabling a less impeded alighting behaviour.
The ‘Timetable’ tab is designed to define arrival time, number of alighters, number of stayers, and the Effective Door Open Time (EDOT), in seconds. When entering alighters' properties (by double-clicking in the cell in the ‘Alighters’ column), the Service instance properties window opens for specifying Entity/Supply Type, Population (number of entities), Passenger distribution and passengers' Final Destinations. Stayers' cells are similar, though without Final Destinations.
To modify EDOT of multiple arrival simultaneously, select the rows for time to be changed. Standard <CTRL> and <SHIFT> multi-selection methods apply. The button ‘Set EDOT for selected rows’ will be enabled.
Click the button and enter the EDOT (in seconds) to assign to all selected arrivals: