Travel to dynamic GIS location

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Mischa Spelt asked Feb 29 2024 at 5:10 PM Jason Lightfoot commented Mar 13 2024 at 4:33 PM

Travel to dynamic GIS location

Hi,

Based on this post I am dynamically creating GIS routes, which I know I'm probably not supposed to do :-)

The route update seems to work fine: in the attached GIS_demo.fsm the GetGISDuration user command synchronously waits for the route update, if needed, then returns the duration of the trip between A and B.

The problem in this model seems to be when I try to send a Task Executer down the newly executed path. To reproduce:

Call InitializeGISPoints to create some new points on the map.
Reset and Run the model.
- You'll get an exception the first time a token enters the Travel task.
- Note that the TravelTime label, which is the requested duration, is shown correctly.
Reset and Run again.
- You'll notice that this time, the TE correctly travels down the indicated path.
- The same exception now happens for the second leg, which did not exist yet.
When run again, all previously seen paths will work correctly but new ones do not.

I'm hoping there's a simple event function I can call to fix this... please help? :-)

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.0.1

task executer gis navigator dynamic routing

gis-demo.fsm (90.8 KiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Feb 29 2024 at 5:17 PM

@Mischa Spelt, can you update the link for "this post". Unfortunately it is internally stated as "isPasted" and this leads to nowhere. Thank you!

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Tomi Kosunen commented · Mar 07 2024 at 6:40 AM

@Mischa Spelt This topic interests me and that is why I am commenting on it. I am successfully utilizing the example approach. In my model I create a number of Points in the OnReset. The ponts are connected as pairs: start point and end point. The "point pairs" are used for any transfer during the simulation run. When a transportation task is created, I choose the first free "point pair", move the start and end points to correct locations, download the route and that's about it.

I also installed internal Routing server (osrm) on a desktop. The response time to routing queries is much faster now (as I send thousands of queries during the simulation run). It is still wice to use the route cache if it is possible to find the required route from there as the queries make the simulation run slower.

The only problem I had, was that the code line "function_s(navigator, "storeWebResponse", url, response.value)" randomly (not often) returns empty and I have to send the query twice. I'm assuming that the problem is in the Routing Server, that has lack of a memory.

Good luck with the gis simulations!

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Jason Lightfoot ♦♦ commented · Mar 13 2024 at 4:33 PM

Hi @Mischa Spelt, was Phil BoBo's answer helpful? If so, please click the "Accept" button at the bottom of their answer. Or if you still have questions, add a comment and we'll continue the conversation.

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Answer 1 · 2024-03-06T19:54:57Z

Phil BoBo answered Mar 06 2024 at 7:54 PM

The routing table for the GIS navigator is only updated on reset. You shouldn't be dynamically creating new connections between points during the model run.

If you want to have dynamically calculated routes during the model run, follow the example in the post you linked to: Update an existing connection route rather than creating new ones.

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