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How to use the AV intermodal router in drt package?

by Clemens Schmidt on 2018-06-15 16:16:46

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Hello,

I am trying to run a scenario where agents can use DRTs in a town and can also leave the town, but only with regional busses. As I understand it, I can use the AV intermodal router to achieve that agents travel with DRT in town and also catch their regional busses to go "abroad".

How can I use/integrate this intermodal router? I have simply no idea how to implement this and need some advice or code example.

Thanks a lot! Clemens

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Comments: 2

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Re: How to use the AV intermodal router in drt package?

by Kai Nagel on 2018-06-15 18:29:47

The general approach would be to have both modes separately, and let mode choice sort this out. You could start by setting up both AV and regionalBus as teleportation (see Sec. 4.6 of the user guide) and sort out the mode choice stuff. (E.g. give bus a large speed but a large negative alternative specific constant, and av a small speed but a zero alternative specific constant, then you should see regionalBus for long distances and av for short distances.) Then replace the teleported AV by "real" av. It should work out of the box, but as usual there will be stuff that is not working as designed.

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Re: How to use the AV intermodal router in drt package?

by Clemens Schmidt on 2018-06-16 18:19:28

Is this the right way to approach intermodal travel chains? Agents should not only use DRTs just in town, but use them in combination with the Regionalbusses, i.e order a DRT and catch with it a Regionalbus.