PTV Visum Essentials

Create lists from the main menu to capture data in a visual model, such as transport systems, on demand, or network objects, via the List Transport Systems.

Copy the entire list to the clipboard and select which key attributes to include using column selection and separator options. Excluding key attributes prevents reading back or importing edited files.

Open the attribute file with Notepad++, edit the first two links to set speed to 80 and capacity to 700, then import the updated file into the version file.

Learn how to host attribute file values in a vision file by selecting a host attribute, noting that some attributes like volume Prj are calculated by Vsum during traffic assignment.

Sort lists by any column in ascending or descending order; use A to Z for capacity and Z to A for reverse, then sort the first column A to Z.

Explore how to display min, max, average, and sum rows in lists using toolbar buttons, revealing per-column insights in analysis rows.

Learn how project directories organize version files, filters, list layout files, matrices, and attributes by creating folders and setting paths for fast, direct access.

Create and map Visum project directories by organizing files into filters, list layout, and quick view layouts folders, then update paths to these directories for easy open and save.

Define and manage Visum link types by creating primary and local routes, adjusting strict, rank, lanes, capacity, and speed, and applying changes to related links.

Activate the zone in the network panel, use interactive editing to add a hole with Add Face drawn clockwise, press enter to create it, and deactivate editing mode.

Learn to insert a main node (with or without a face), assign nodes using the main node number, and edit face by adding and dragging points with the control button.

Understand how turns and main turns govern traffic between links at a node in PTV Visum, including turn attributes and the five predefined turn types.

Use the select attributes window to add turn attributes to the table, and note that in Vism turns have zero length and cannot be exported as shape files.

Explore lane turns in PTV Visum essentials: auto-generated lane turns connect incoming to outgoing lanes, define transport systems, and manage them with hover plus or minus.

Set up and apply filters in PTV Visum to activate specific network objects by defining conditions for links and zones, using operations like greater than, between, and is empty.

Explore how filter operations vary with the selected attribute in PTV Visum Essentials, as choosing number or name changes the available operations.

Learn to build complex filters by adding conditions, using and or brackets, duplicating or moving criteria, and previewing results in Visum's filter editor.

Reverse your filter criteria to select links with numbers less than six by changing the operation or using the complement option; preview confirms the revised selection.

Save and reuse filters in PTV Visum Essentials by using save as new filter files or the filter window, then reopen them from the filters folder or open file.

Explore spatial selection to activate specific network objects by selecting nodes and links with checkboxes, the cloud icon, and area-based selection, noting zones remain passive.

Create and rename class limit columns, define upper bounds with inclusive/exclusive rules, and shift to a ten-unit increment pattern for successive classes in Vism.

Edit and organize map layers in a classified display by adjusting legend names, layer numbers, and line styles, add layers, set colors and widths, and preview changes.

Configure classify displays for nodes and zones in PTV Visum, using control type attribute for nodes and a text zone type to distinguish city center from non city center zones.

Explore how to display and customize bars across links in PTV Visum, adjusting bar widths, scales, and classifications, and managing labels and colors.

Learn to create and customize difference bars in vision, set two attributes, compute their difference, adjust scale, hide titles and volume, and apply green color.

Learn to insert and display PRT path bars in PTV Visum, move traffic assignment routes into a path set, and adjust manual bar scaling with draw bars and labels enabled.

Display turn volumes as bars across the network by enabling the graphics layer and selecting turn volumes, and export these turn bar images for reports.

Use the procedure sequence window to create and execute steps: reset filters, read filter file, set free-flow speed to 60 km/h, delete results, run traffic assignment, and save villages results.

Learn to manage procedures with toolbar icons, set all active or inactive, define next procedures, run single or multiple steps, save and load steps from XML to improve efficiency.

Learn how to use the multi edit feature in Vism to modify capacities of network objects in bulk, using constant, factor, attribute, formula, and round tools.

Explore how intersect links two spatially overlapping network objects in Visum, enabling attribute transfer from source to target; use buffers to create two-dimensional overlap without changing actual shapes.

Copy the source zone number to the link’s zone number using intersect in Visum, via multi edit, with zone as the source attribute and zone number as the target attribute.

Learn to count links inside a zone in Visum using intersect: set target zone, source links, choose count in a procedure, and verify four links in the network editor.

Learn how to use the intersect procedure in Visum to copy link observed volume into zones, adjust with area share weight, and see how overlap governs the transfer.

Learn how to use the intersect procedure in Visum to allocate a node's observed volume to overlapping zones by creating a 100-meter buffer and weight by area share.

Use the intersect tool in visum to copy observed values from POI to links with a 40 meter buffer, converting POI to two-dimensional surfaces, and summing volumes into observed volume.

Understand how paths connect origins to destinations, how traffic assignment calculates paths and assigns demand, and how path sets separate editable PRT paths from non-editable putt paths.

Learn to list links traversed by a prbt path in PTV Visum, view link composition by path index, and manage demand segments and path sets to display zone paths.

Edit visa path courses by selecting a path in the network editor, dragging crosses to reroute between zones ten and 390, and using fixes and undo to refine the route.

Insert a PRT path and pass set for cars in the network editor, using link-based routing criteria and then edit the path to fix key points.

Insert a PrT path manually using zones as origin and destination, using insert mode to draw and finalize the new path in the network editor.

Apply hierarchical filters to pass, set, and pass item via the filter window, and use selection off to refine paths and sets by volume greater than four.

Learn how to convert paths in Visum by selecting a source path set or demand segment, choosing a target, adjusting the factor, and using conflict options (overwrite, replace all, sum).

Reset and configure a flow bundle query by selecting links and a node, building multi-condition rules with brackets, then run the query and interpret the flow bars to identify trips.

Execute the flow bundle query to reveal alternative routes that start and end in the same zones, then distinguish flow bundle bars from links with uniform display.

Save alternative routes by running the flow bundle query, create assets (car and heavy goods vehicles), and convert 310 routes to path set five in batches, noting a visa bug.

Save the flow bundle's calculated volumes as formula matrices to an external file, then re-open them from the saved file in Viso's external matrices.

Create an empty matrix, copy flow bundle values from one matrix to another using the matrix editor, and apply a filter to show cells greater than zero.

Learn to calculate travel time between two points by summing time on links and turns along the route, using filtering and a formula attribute to compute the total time.

Explain how scheme matrices present network performance measures like travel times between origins and destinations, and note that they do not provide travel time on a specific road.

Select the PRT scheme matrix procedure, configure demand segment and path options, and calculate trip distance scheme matrices for private transport systems, then view or save results.

Save matrices as external MDX files and manage them by overwriting, importing, or updating current matrices in the editor. Copy to clipboard for Excel or database integrations.

Change matrix editor display by editing graphic parameters, selecting active, passive, and diagonal cells; switch to uniform displays with six classes and a 3000 limit, then preview and save.

Create a histogram for a scheme matrix by selecting the car demand matrix, configuring intervals, and viewing the trip length distribution to reveal patterns in trip links.

Explore volume delay functions (VDFs) in analytical transport models like Visum and Sidra, linking road demand to travel times and speeds, and contrasting with the speed-flow diagram.

Explore the BPR function, a Bureau of Public Roads volume delay model linking current travel time, free-flow time, volume, capacity, saturation, and calibration parameters a, b, and c.

Define volume delay functions in Visum (bpr or akcelik), assign them to link types via general procedure settings, and calibrate parameters with speed data and vehicle counts.