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Summary Function

1. Right-click on Zones then click on List 

2. Click on Select attributes…

3. Search for the attribute name and double-click to add it to table 

4. Click OK, it will show List of production by zone and purpose

If you want to review/summarize the data by a specific group or attribute, for example: Show total production by County and Purpose 

1. Search for the attribute name and double-click to add it to table 

2. To group by County, click on the checkbox under Aggregate

1. Right-click on Links then click on List → Links

1. Right-click on Turns then click on List

1. Navigate to Nodes layer, turn node layer on 

2. Zoom in to a specific node and double-click it; then the junction editor window will show up

1. Click Turn Volumes 

2. Click Graphics → Edit graphic parameters 

3. Click Turns → Display 

4. Click ScaleAttrID → select VOL_ALL for daily volume

5. Click OK

The Select Link/Zone Analysis is called Flow Bundle in VISUM. Flow bundles consist of all paths traversing the network objects (link or zone) marked for flow bundle calculation. Flow bundles need to be run separately for each time-of-day period.

If you want to run select link or select zone analysis, please make sure to select Save as routes in the General Procedure settings before running the assignment steps. 

1. Click Calculate in the menu and select General procedure settings 

2. Expand Prt settings and click on Assignment 

3. Select Save as routes 

4. Click OK

Flow bundle analysis runs by period. So, after selecting save as routes, we need to run the specific period to get the corresponding period path result.

1. Click Calculate in the menu and select Procedure sequence 

2. Click Set all inactive 

3. Select all the steps under Group 11 – Network Assignment AM (Click the first checkbox, press the Shift key, and then click the last checkbox) 

4. Click Run button

Set up the graphic parameters to review flow bundle result 

1. Click on Graphics and select Edit graphic parameters 

2. Click on Links and select Draw bars 

3. Expand Links and click on Bars and select all the options for Draw layer links 

4. Expand Bars and click on Display 

5. Click on insert button to insert a new column 

6. Click on ScaleAttrID filed to select the attributes, and then the Links: select attribute window will pop up 

7. Enter flow in the search bar and expand Volume flow bundle PrT [veh] and click on This network 

8. Click OK to finish selecting attribute

9. Click on Filling field to select the color, and then the Edit bar X window will pop up

10. Select Uniform display under Fill Style

11. Click OK to finish selecting color

12. Uncheck Scale\UseAutoScale field

13. Enter the value of 500 in the Scale\MaxValue field

14. Scroll horizontally and make sure to uncheck all other columns for the Draw field except for the one we just worked on

15. Click OK to finish the graphic parameter settings

1. Click Graphics in menu bar and select Flow bundle 

2. Click Reset button to clear the previous flow bundle result 

3. Choose PrT as Term type (choose auto vehicle) 

4. Choose Link as Network object type 

5. Click the target link in the Network editor window to select it 

6. Click Run button

1. Click Graphic and Edit graphic parameters… in menu bar 

2. Click on Zones 

3. Select Draw layer Zones and Avoid overlapping when drawing 

4. Expand Zones and click on Display 

5. Select Uniform display in Active tab 

6. Select Text as point object type 

7. Select Draw surface and Draw point object and uncheck Draw chart 

8. Click on OK to finish setting

1. Click switch on graphics button to turn on the graphics for the zone layer 

2. Click Reset button in Graphics tools (Flow bundle) to clean up the previous flow bundle selection and results 

3. Select object type Zone 

4. Click any area within the target zone in Network editor window to select zone 

5. Click Run button to run the flow bundle of select zone 

6. Select zone analysis result will show on the Network editor interface

After running flow bundle, the matrix result will be saved to Matrices. 

1. Go to the left panel and click on the Matrices tab next to the Network tab 

2. Expand All matrices, Demand matrices, Zone matrices and Formula matrices

3. Hover the mouse on each matrix, and the information about the matrix will pop up

Standard order: 

• 702 FlowBundle matrix hov2 

• 703 FlowBundle matrix hov3 

• 704 FlowBundle matrix sov 

• 705 FlowBundle matrix trn

5. Uncheck Scale\UseAutoScale; enter 50 for Scale\MaxValue field

6. Click Filling field, and then Edit bar x window will pop up 

7. Select Uniform display under Fill style

8. Click OK to finish color setting

9. Click OK to finish parameter setting

16. Click the insert button to insert another condition

17. Click the Condition And/Or button to change it to “Or” if it shows “And”

18. For the newly added record, select Formula and then click the … button

19. Double-click any place within the Edit formula window, and then the OD pairs: select attributes window will pop up

20. Click To zone Number and click OK

21. In the Edit formula window, Enter “=307” after [TOZONENO] and click OK

22. Click OK in the Filter for OD pairs of zones window

23. The Network Editor window will show OD pairs from target zone 307

1. On the List (Links) menu, click Save layout 

2. The Save list layout window opens. The list name can be revised as needed 

3. Save the file to the desired folder. The settings are saved as *.lla file

1. Go to the listings folder 

2. Select a *.llax file, drag it to the VISUM interface, then release the mouse

The user-defined listings files save layouts that users may use frequently.

• Examples:

1. Right-click the Zones layer and click List 

2. Click the button copy list to clipboard 

3. Then Save attribute (Zones) will pop-up, select Add Key attributes automatically and select Tabulator for separator and click OK 

4. Open an excel file, click on cell A1 and press CTRL+V; then the list will be pasted to Excel file

1. Revised the list content 

2. Select entire sheet in the excel and press CTRL+C 

3. Click Paste contents from clipboard 

4. The content will be pasted from excel to list in VISUM. (It will show warning message and press OK to continue）

1. Add a new column in the excel 

2. Select entire sheet in the excel and press CTRL+C 

3. Click Paste contents from clipboard 

4. Click New to create a new user-defined attribute in the list 

5. The Create user-defined attribute window will pop up automatically and click OK, then the new column will be added to the list 

6. Then select attribute to add to the list

Save the graphic patterns as user-defined graphic file 

1. Click Graphic parameters files in the Network Editor window 

2. Click Add 

3. Enter the name of the graphic pattern 

4. Click Overwrite with current graphic parameters to save it within the version file 

5. Optional: save global layout to folder and use on other version file, click save file as – Graphic parameters…

1. Go to the graphics folder 

2. Select a *.gpa file, drag it to the VISUM interface, then release the mouse

1. Click Graphic parameters files 

2. Select the preferred user-defined graphics in drop down menu

The user-defined graphic files save layouts that users may use frequently. 

• Examples: