A question about ACTFLO

[Sharonchang]

In the manual of "Getting started with TIMES", the process parameter ACTFLO is appeared in the demo example with meaning average number of persons per car. I'm not quite understand the parameter. "Comm-In" of the process is OILGSL with unit as "PJ", and "Comm-Out" of the process is CAR_LO and CAR_SD with unit as "MPkm". Therefore, I'm wondering how the unit "person per car" appear suddenly?

[Antti-L]

Well, if the activity is in VKM (vehicle kilometers) and the output flow (demand) is in PKM (passenger kilometers), then we need to define the conversion from the activity unit to the flow unit: PKM/VKM = P/V (number of passengers per vehicle). This conversion ratio can be defined by PRC_ACTFLO.

[Sharonchang]

ok! Thanks a lot!