Basics/Notation

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Command Line

If you encounter something like this: 

netconvert --visum=MyVisumNet.inp --output-file=MySUMONet.net.xml

you should know that this is a call on the command line. There may be also a '\' at the end of a line. This indicates that you have to continue typing without pressing return (ignoring both the '\' and the following newline). The following example means exactly the same as the one above: 

netconvert --visum=MyVisumNet.inp \
  --output-file=MySUMONet.net.xml

Application Options

Command line option names are normally coloured this way. Their values <LIKE THIS>.

XML Examples

XML-elements and attributes are shown like this. Their values, if variable, <LIKE THIS>.

Complete examples of XML-Files are shown like the following: 

<myType>
   <myElem myAttr1="0" myAttr2="0.0"/>
   <myElem myAttr1="1" myAttr2="-500.0"/>
</myType>

Referenced Data Types

  • <BOOL>: a boolean value, use "t" or "true" and "f" or "false" for encoding
  • <INT>: an integer value, may be negative
  • <UINT>: an unsigned integer value, must be >=0
  • <FLOAT>: a floating point number
  • <TIME>: time, given in seconds; fractions are allowed, e.g. "12.1"
  • <STRING>: any string, but use ASCII-characters only
  • <ID>: a string which must not contain the following characters: '#'
Caution:
The list of not allowed characters is incomplete
  • <FILE> or <FILENAME>: the (relative or absolute) path to a file; see also #Referenced File Types
  • <PATH>: a (a relative or absolute) path (mainly to a folder)
  • <COLOR>: a quadruple of floats separated by ',' (<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>), which describe the red, green, blue, and alpha component ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 (the alpha component is optional), alternatively the list may contain integers in the 0-255 range. Please note that the separator must be a comma and there are no spaces allowed. The color may also be defined using a single string with a HTML color code or one of the basic colors ("red", "green", "blue", "yellow", "cyan", "magenta", "black", "white", "grey")
  • <2D-POSITION>: two floats separated by ',' (<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>), which describe the x- and the y-offset, respectively
  • <2D-BOUNDING_BOX>: four floats separated by ',' (<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>,<FLOAT>), which describe x-minimum, y-minimum, x-maximum, and y-maximum
  • <PROJ_DEFINITION>: a string containing the projection definition as used by proj.4; please note that you have to embed the definition string in quotes

Referenced File Types

Further Schemes

Brackets '[' and ']' indicate that the enclosed information is optional. Brackets '<' and '>' indicate a variable - insert your own value in here.

<SUMO_HOME> is the path you have saved your SUMO-package into.

<SUMO_BINDIR> is the path to the main binaries (SUMO, NETCONVERT, DUAROUTER, ...) of the SUMO-package

This page was last modified on 25 March 2013, at 07:47.