Networks/Import/Vissim

Although Vissim is a microscopic simulation as SUMO is, it follows a completely different concept of modelling traffic. Due to this, the import is quite clumsy, does not work with all networks, and manual work on the imported network is necessary. The option which forces NETCONVERT to read a vissim file is  or  for short. A usage example for NETCONVERT's Vissim import may look like: netconvert --vissim-file= --output-file=MySUMOFile.net.xml

Vissim-networks do possibly not contain explicit definitions of an edge's speed. We have to propagate once set velocities, but even then some edges' speeds may not be defined. The option may change the default speed used in the case an edge's speed is not defined. The default value for this parameter is 13.89m/s, being around 50km/h. The second parameter describes the factor to multiply a described flows maximum velocity to gain the velocity to use. The default value is 1.

Furthermore, as we have to use geometrical heuristics for joining connections to nodes, a further factor steers the process of converting Vissim-networks: simply spoken, holds the information how near two nodes must be (in meters) to be joined.

During import, different actions must be done which may yield in some loss of data and may be watched in part by setting the verbose option.

=Known Problems=
 * Works with German networks only (see for tips on conversion)
 * All actuated traffic lights are mapped onto the same type of traffic light (MSActuatedTrafficLight)
 * Additional source and sink links are built

=Converting VISSIM networks to German= If you have VISSIM and the German language is available, it should be fairly simple to convert your English language network to a German file, so that it can be imported by SUMO.

This assumes that you are starting with an English-language VISSIM.
 * Click on Menu View, Options...
 * Go to the Language & Units tab
 * Select Language, Deutsch
 * Click OK
 * Click on the (now in a different language) menu Datei, Speichern unter (File, Save as)
 * Save the file somewhere else
 * Click OK on any warning messages
 * To get back to English, click menu item Ansicht, Optionen (View, Options)
 * Select tab Sprache & Einheiten
 * Select Sprache, English
 * Click OK