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forklift travel in racking

I would like to use a travel network to simulate forklifts traveling through a pallet racking area. I want to use the network instead of Astar because I want to put traffic control in the simulation and I also want to limit the space in between forklifts while they are traveling.

I noticed that a forklift will not stop on the travel network directly in front of the pallet rack position unless there is a network node right in front of the racking bay. If I do this for the entire warehouse it will be a lot of work placing all of these network nodes and if the nodes are only 4 feet apart how do I keep the forklifts 10 feet apart

forklift travel
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I would not use network nodes for this kind of task. The distance of taskexecuters can you build upon the collision. A conditional entry to an aisle is a job for the amount of travelers at a network node.

You have network nodes at the start and end of the rack. The taskexecuter travels to the bay by offset travel. You control the distance by collision.

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