Getting Started

After you have installed the program, double-click on the SwashSim icon on your desktop or within the ‘Start’ menu. Alternatively, you can navigate to the installation folder and double-click on ‘SwashSim.exe’ to start the program.

Starting/Opening Project From the start screen, select either ‘New Project’ or ‘Open Project’. If you select ‘New Project’, you will then need to select the desired facility type, and then click the ‘OK’ button (see Figure below). Alternatively, you can double-click on a facility type with the left mouse button and the main input screen will then be loaded. If you select ‘Open Project’, you will be presented with a dialog for selecting a project file (see Figure below).

Settings If you want to change any of the default simulation settings as discussed in the previous section, they are accessed by selecting ‘Settings’ on the tool bar (See Figure below).

Under settings the databases for vehicles parameters, driver parameters, car-following model parameters, lane-changing model parameters, two lane passing model parameters and emissions/fuel consumption parameters can be revised. The initial settings for all these values are contained in files stored in subfolders to the main program folder. The relevant filenames are displayed in the yellow text boxes on each respective setting screen.