PTV Logistics Product Forum

HI there,

Last week a partner asked me how he's supposed to parametrize a vehicle profile to be a truck or car (or a bus!).
Proper parametrizing could have an impact on:

• Consideration of truck attributes (geometry, traveltime, distance)
• Determination of toll tarifs (prices)

In fact I was quite surprised that it is not just a simple property you need to use for this.
Instead we have to use following combination of properties:
Routing / Vehicle / Physical / Drive / @driveType
Routing / Vehicle / Physical / Weight / @totalPermittedWeight

• (@driveType=="MOTORIZED") and (@totalPermittedWeight <= 3500) is a car
• (@driveType=="MOTORIZED") and (@totalPermittedWeight > 3500) is a truck

Thanks for asking this question, Harald...!
Thanks for answering it, Frank, Haba, Ralf
Best regards,
Bernd

You also have to check the Routing / Vehicle / Load / @loadType . If it is set to GOODS or MIXED it is a truck, else it is a Coach (bus).

In the context of xServer2 the properties in charge would be:

• com.ptvgroup.xserver.vehicleprofile.Weight : totalPermittedWeight
• com.ptvgroup.xserver.vehicleprofile.LoadType (PASSENGER | GOODS)
• com.ptvgroup.xserver.vehicleprofile.DriveType (MOTOR_VEHICLE | BICYCLE | PEDESTRIAN)