Users Guide Instruction Manual

ARENA USER’S GUIDE

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YPICAL

USES

 A mechanic allocates a forklift for scheduled maintenance

 Allocate a taxi to pick up waiting passengers

ROMPTS

Prompt Description

Name Unique name of the module that will be displayed in the flowchart.

Transporter Name Name of the transporter to allocate.

Selection Rule Rule for determining which of the transporters to allocate to the entity.

The selection rule has the following options: Cyclical, Random,

Preferred Order, Specific Member, Largest Distance, and Smallest

Distance.

Save Attribute The attribute name that will store the unit number of the selected

transporter.

Unit Number Determines the specific transporter in the transporter set to allocate to

the entity. It is only visible if selection rule is Specific Member.

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 This field is used to determine the transporter closest to or farthest from

the requesting entity when using the Largest Distance or Smallest

Distance transporter selection rules. 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.

Queue Type Type of queue used to hold the entities while waiting to allocate the

transporter, either an individual Queue, a queue Set, an Internal queue,

or an Attribute or Expression that evaluate to the queue name.

Queue Name Name of the individual queue.

Queue Set Name Name of the queue set that contains the queue being referenced.

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 The expression that will be evaluated to the queue name.