THE USE OF SIMULATION IN PLANNING EXPANSION OF THE ST. LOUIS POLICE REAL-TIME MOTOR VEHICLE INQUIRY SYSTEM

A COMPUTER PROGRAM, CODED IN GPSS, HAS BEEN WRITTEN TO SIMULATE THE OPERATION OF THE ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT'S REAL-TIME MOTOR VEHICLE INQUIRY SYSTEM. FOUR TYPES OF INQUIRIES ARE HANDLED: VEHICLE (OR LICENSE) CHECKS, AND ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS TO STORED INFORMATION. COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS, FOUR COMPUTERS, AND ELEVEN TERMINALS ARE EXPLICITLY REPRESENTED IN THE SIMULATOR; OTHER SYSTEM EQUIPMENT AND TYPES OF INQUIRIES ARE IMPLICITLY REPRESENTED. FOUR EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SIMULATOR ARE REPORTED. THESE INVOLVE CHANGES IN TERMINAL EQUIPMENT, THE MESSAGE ASSEMBLY PROCEDURE, THE PRIORITY SYSTEM, AND SYSTEM LOADING. /HSRI/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 36 Pp, Tabs, REF
• Corporate Authors:

  St Louis Metropolitan Police Dept

  ,    

  Washington University, St Louis

  St Louis, MO  United States  63130
• Authors:
  • Heller, N B
  • Kolde, R
• Publication Date: 1970-10

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communications; Computer programs; Equipment; Expansion; Motor vehicles; Planning; Simulation; Systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Inquiry
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226006
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 1 1971 12:00AM