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Transport module
D ESCRIPTION
The Transport module transfers the controlling entity to a destination station. After the
time delay required for the transport, the entity reappears in the model at the Station
module. Free-path transporters are always moved to the same station destination as the
entity. Guided transporters may be moved to a different network location than the entity’s
station destination using the Guided Tran Destination Type.
Save Attribute Denotes the attribute name that will store the unit number of the selected
transporter.
Unit Number Determines the specific transporter unit in the transporter set to request.
Priority Priority value of the entity waiting at this module for the transporter
specified if one or more entities are waiting for the same transporter
anywhere in the model.
Entity Location The location to which the transporter will move after being allocated.
For free-path transporters, the entity location must be specified as a
station. For guided transporters, the entity location may be specified as a
station, intersection, or network link.
Velocity Speed at which the transporter is moved to the entity location in length
units per unit time. The unit time is specified in the Units field.
Units Velocity time units.
Queue Type Type of queue used to hold the entities while waiting to access the
transporter, either an individual Queue, a queue Set, an Internal queue,
or an Attribute or Expression that evaluate to the queue’s name.
Queue Name Name of the individual queue.
Set Name Name of the queue set.
Set Index The index into the queue set. Note that this is the index into the set and
not the name of the queue in the set. For example, the only valid entries
for a queue set containing three members is an expression that evaluates
to 1, 2, or 3.
Attribute Name The attribute name that will be evaluated to the queue name.
Expression Expression evaluated to the queue name.
Prompt Description