Control File

The control file contains the settings to be used by the PTSKIM application and is passed as a command line argument to the PTSKIM program. Settings are provided as key-value pairs, using a colon to separate the key and value.

Control file key	Default	Description
NTHREADS	0	Number of threads. Zero or less indicates the number of processors that should remain unused
NZONES		Number of zones (only used when ZONES is empty)
NNODES		Number of nodes (only used when NODES is empty)
NCLASS		Number of userclasses
STD		Speed-Time-Distance inputs: T = Time from segments table (No distances) TD = Time and distance from segments table TS = Time from segments table, line speed from lines table (used to calculate distances) DS = Distance from segments table, line speed from lines table (used to calculate times)
VOT		List of Value of Times per userclass (comma separated)
PENALTY	0	Boarding penalty per userclass (comma separated). The user class specific boarding penalty is added to the line specific boarding penalty specified in the LINES table
ACCDST	∞	Maximum access distance
TRFDST	∞	Maximum transfer distance
EGRDST	∞	Maximum egress distance
AECROW	0	0/1 flag that indicates whether or not 'as the crow flies' distances are used to calculate the distance between a zone and a transit node
TRFCROW	0	0/1 flag that indicates whether or not 'as the crow flies' distances are used to calculate the distance between transit nodes
DETOUR	1.0	Detour factor applied to 'as the crow flies' distances
SPEED		Speed used to calculate the time corresponding to 'as the crow flies' based distances
LOAD	0	Number of network loading iterations 0 = No assignment (only skimming) 1 = Assignment without capacity constraints or crowding modelling >1 = Assignment with capacity constraints or crowding modelling
CROWD	0,..,0	List of crowding model per userclass (comma separated): 0 = No crowding modelling 1 = Crowding modelling according to Wardman and Whelan, for commuting trips 2 = Crowding modelling according to Wardman and Whelan, for other trips
TRNSP	0	0/1 flag to indicate whether or not the transposed skim matrices should be saved to file
SKIM		List of skim variables (comma separated)
OFFSET	0	Node number offset in the transit network
ZONES		Zone coordinates (input) table
NODES		Stop coordinates (input) table
LINES		Lines (input) table
STOPS		Stops (input) table
SEGMENTS		Segments (input) table
LOS		Non-transit level of service input file
TRIPS1		Trips input file for userclass 1
TRIPS2		Trips input file for userclass 2
...		...
SKIM1		Skim output file for userclass 1
SKIM2		Skim output file for userclass 2
...		...
BOARDS		Boardings and alightings (output) table
VOLUMES		Volumes (output) table
LOG		Log file name