To run the code either run the start.bat file (you wont be able to see the simulation stats before it exits) or open the terminal and navigate to this folder (so that you can see all the config files and the source code files) and run the following command: python3 main.py
Every time a simulation is run, logs will be generated and stored in the logs folder. In the logs folder, you will see a .csv file for the following: - each check in queue - each security queue - passengers - planes The .csv files have a title row so what each column represents should be clear In addition, there is a log.txt file that contains data relating to all aspects of the simulation in the order it occurs. It is harder to read.
You have the choice to either edit a configuration file or answer a set of yes/no questions in the terminal. Note that if you do not use the configuration file, your configuration options are MUCH MORE LIMITED.
When the simulation runs, you can click enter twice to use the default configuration (pulling values from config.cfg)
If you want to change the simulation parameters, we suggest that you edit the config.cfg file that we have provided. If you wish to make another config file (or run one of our prebuilt config files such as suggestion3.cfg) then the simulation will provide you an opportunity to type the name of the file after you select you want to load a configuration file.
The configuration file allows you to adjust the following settings:
universalqueuepolicy - this parameter determins how universal checkin desks and universal security desks chose the next passenger to serve 1 = pick randomly 2 = pick alternating 3 = prefer business class 4 = prefer coach class coachcheckin - number of checkin desks that only serve coach passengers businesscheckin - number of checkin desks that only serve business passengers universalcheckin - number of checkin desks that serve both coach and business passengers coachsecurity - number of security desks that only serve coach passengers businesssecurity - number of security desks that only serve coach passengers universalsecurity - number of security desks that only serve both coach and provincial passengers
simlength - number of days that will be simulated commutercap - maximum number of commuters that will be generated commuterrate - average number of commuters that arrive every hour
logqueue - whether to log queue-related information to a file (0 or 1) logplane - whether to log plane-related information to a file (0 or 1) logpassenger - whether to log passenger-related information to a file (0 or 1) printqueue - whether to log queue-related information to the terminal (0 or 1) printplane - whether to log plane-related information to the terminal (0 or 1) printpassenger - whether to log passenger-related information to the terminal (0 or 1)
commuterinterval - time in minuites between commuter flights commuterseats - number of coach seats available on commuter planes provincialinterval - time in minuites between provincial flights provincialcoachcount - number of coach seats available on provincial planes provincialcoachchance - probability for a provincial coach seat to be filled provincialbusinesschance - probability for a provincial business seat to be filled provincialbusinesscount - number of business seats available on commuter planes provincialarrivalmean - mean time that provincial passengers arrive early provincialarrivalvariation - varience for the time that provincial passengers arrive early (they arrive according to a normal distribution)