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Select Configure Radars to open the Configure Radars dialogue. Here you can choose the number of radars you need:
Click OK.
This will delete all existing radars and create new ones until the desired number is reached. Any integration plugin tied directly to radar or radar entity updates will be affected by this.
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Select Configure Carriageways to to open the Configure Carriageways dialogue. Here you can change the number of carriageways and sections per carriageway:
Click OK.
This will recreate the carriageways as required. All carriageways will be created 4 lanes and with the default rules; Debris, Person, Queue, Reversing Vehicle, Slow Vehicle and Stopped Vehicle.
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By default, carriageways are generated with settings that include an 11 m/s queue threshold, 16 m/s heavy traffic density and a track density queue of 4. For some integration plugins that are able to output section queue and heavy traffic flags, these criteria will need to be met. |
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Select Save Configuration to save the current configuration to file:
You will receive a log message indicating a successful save and where the configuration file has been saved to. It should look something like "C:\ProgramData\Navtech\Highways Integration Simulator\HighwaysSimulatorConfig.xml". C:\ProgramData will be different depending on where your window's application data folder is located.
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Ensure the Sections and Rules tab is open:
Here there will be a list of the sections you have configured with the rules.
You can select sections and the rules that you wish to apply by selecting their check boxes:
In the example above, Section 1 of Lane 1 has been chosen with a variety of rules. The Auto Acknowledge check box has been selected by default.
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Click the Add Alarms button:
This will add each of the rules for the section to the Alarms List as highted above.
Selecting the check box on the Alarms List toolbar will select or deselect all of the checkboxes below it:
Alternatively, you can select individual rows in the list.
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Click the Send Alarms button:
In this example, the ICD-100 XML Plugin has been enabled and the Log Panel shows that the 6 alarms have been sent (highlighted in pink).
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Click the Clear Alarms button; you can select all alarms by selecting the checkbox in the column header or select individual alarms:
As the Auto Acknowledge check box has been selected then clearing the alarms will also acknowledge them as in the example above.
If the Auto Acknowledge check box has not been selected:
Clicking on the Clear Alarms button will clear the alarms but not auto acknowledge them:
Acknowledge Alarms
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Select the alarms you wish to acknowledge which will enable the Acknowledge Alarms button:
This will then clear the alarms from the list:
Delete Alarms
You can delete a single or multiple alarms:
Select the alarm or alarms from the list and click the Delete Alarms button:
The selected alarms will be removed:
Reset Configuration
To reset the Section and Rules configuration back to default:
Click the Reset Configuration button:
This will clear the sections, rules, Alarm Lane and alarm list, and return the Auto Acknowledge check box to selected.
Send Statistics
You can use the commands available in the Carriageway Statistics section to send statistics or Traffic Analysis reports.
Click Send Statistics: this will will send randomly generated statistics for each section of the selected carriageway. You can change the selected carriageway from the Carriageway dropdown:
These statistics will be displayed within the Log Panel, as above.
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Click the Clear Traffic button. This will also raise the flag that the entire carriageway is clear of traffic.
Send Section TA
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Click the Send Section TA button:
This will send out a randomized traffic analysis message with reports for the selected sections. In the above example it has sent out messages for section 1.
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Click Send Clear TA to send a traffic analysis message for all of the selected sections in the Section and Rules tab:
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