Transportation Assets Multi-Period

Internal Table Name: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Period Name

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: PeriodName

Type: Short Text (50)

Select the name of the time period for which the changes for this transportation asset are to occur.

Name

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: TransportationAssetName

Type: Short Text (100)

Select the name of the asset which changes during this time period.

Units

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: Units

Type: Short Text (25)

Enter the number of units of this asset that are available for use in the network during this time period. Units must be a whole number; for example, you cannot have half a truck.

Unit Fixed Cost

Technology: NO IO S

Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: UnitFixedCost

Type: Short Text (50)

Enter the total cost of owning or using each unit of this asset during this time period. For example, this could be the cost of maintaining a vehicle in the fleet, or the administrative costs for operating it in the period.

Hourly Cost

Technology: NO IO S

Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: HourlyCostCap

Type: Short Text (50)

Specify the cost per hour for this asset during this period. You can define a step function to set costs at different step levels.

Maximum Capacity (Hours)

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: AssetMaxAvailableTimeinHours

Type: Number (Float)

Enter the maximum number of hours that the asset is available during this period.

Requirement Period

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: RequirementPeriod

Type: Short Text (50)

One of Period Length, Day, Week, Month (30 Day), Quarter (91 Day), Year, Horizon.

Choose the period over which the Maximum Capacity (Hours) is to be established - Day, Week, Month, Quarter, or Year. When left blank the horizon of the optimization will be used as the Requirement Period.

Simulation: This field is not used.

Notes

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Table: TransportationAssets_MultiPeriod

Internal Name: TransportationAssetPeriodNotes

Type: Memo

Enter optional descriptive notes about the transportation asset.