Advanced Timetable (Auto Seperate Vehicle)

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 25 Jun 2007 01:30

I have had this idea forever and now with timetables it should be much simpler to complete.

What this patch would do is allow you to set shared orders to auto seperate vehicles. This will work by letting your vehicle wait for a given about of time at a station to achieve the separation between vehicles. This will be achieved in 2 ways.

The first way is the to use the average travel time of the vehicles to calculate the preferred amount of time between vehicle's.

The second way to preset a minimum (and maximum) preferred time between vehicles.

New Features:

Average travel time between orders
Auto seperate Vehicle

An examples of this is:

You have a coal mine attached to a station and you set the auto separation to 20 days at that station. Lets say you just build 5 trains and let them all go at once. What would happen is the vehicles would go to the station and every 20 days one of the vehicles will leave the station.

Another example would be you have two cities with bus stations in them and 3 vehicles traveling back and forth between the cities. For this you could set Auto Separation on and from the average amount of travel time the vehicles would then seperate. Let say it take an average of 60 day to go between the two stop this mean it would mean the preferred separation of the vehicles would be 20 days each (60 days / 3 vehicles).

I understand Timetables has just been added to the trunk and there could be further development currently happening that i am unaware of so please let me know if know of any.

Also please let me know what you think of this and don't be scared to post you thoughts or ideas about this patch or ways i could improve upon this idea.

Edit:

Advanced Timetable v0.5 r 10403

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 25 Jun 2007 08:28

Update: I have edited the display to now show two lines after the station in the timetable this new line is currently used to show the average amount of time of travel.

On the subject of average how should the averages be calculated? I was thinking something along the lines of Average time = ((Average time / (number of Vehicles + 1) + Travel time / (number of Vehicles + 1) )) * ((number of Vehicles + 1) / 2)

Ailure · Post by **Ailure** » 25 Jun 2007 08:55

Funny, I was just gonna post a suggestion about having average travel times in timetables, and someone already done that.

Measuring manually isn't exactly fun.

Maedhros · Post by **Maedhros** » 25 Jun 2007 10:35

Personally I'd rather see the average in brackets after each time, as that means you could see the average waiting time at stations too without making the display too hard to read.

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 25 Jun 2007 16:02

I agree i just wanted to to work out the display (it somehow confused me for a little while) and am still yet to fully work out how the new options will be set in the window. All i know so far is there will need to be a way to display the average Travel times (and average station dwell times toot), set / display which stations vehicles are allowed to wait at and set two new variables Min / Max for All Station.

So i think the average times will be placed in brackets after each time and the Min / Max placed after the station. Hmm does that mean i made a new line for nothing, meh maybe i will find a use for it.

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 26 Jun 2007 06:34

I have fixed up the display and now the average times are next to each time and look down the bottom next to the late counter it has the current travel time since arriving or leaving a station.

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 27 Jun 2007 21:36

Another update. Here is what it looks like now. After i clean up the code (and updated it to the current revision *runs and hides*) i should be able to release what i have currently done so it shouldn't be to long now till it can begin being tested. (ps i am still working on the timetable window)

NukeBuster · Post by **NukeBuster** » 27 Jun 2007 22:05

This is a great patch, it really saves much hassle separating buses manually

. I'd really like to try the patch.

Post by **peter1138** » 27 Jun 2007 22:40

It's 'separate', by the way

l_Blue_l · Post by **l_Blue_l** » 01 Jul 2007 05:46

Advanced Timetable v0.5

Features:
Average travel times
Current travel time
Minimum Station wait time
Maximum Station wait time
Minimum separation between vehicles
Maximum separation between vehicles

To-do list:
Implement more advanced average travel time
Implement Auto-Separate based on Average travel times
Improve the timetables window
Fix up coding style and add comments

Bugs:
Unknown

Edit: Development on hold until Routes has been developed

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