Transport operation

The transport operation will return either the mean value or the total inventory of it’s parent (transport) sub-system.

Creating a transport operation

A transport operation block is created in the Model window? by right-clicking an empty cell within a transport sub-system and selecting Other | Transport Operation from the popup-menu.

Editing a transport operation

Note Most block properties can be edited directly in the blocks window.

The block editor is shown by right-clicking the block in a window and selecting Edit. In the Blocks window, you can also show the block editor by selecting the block and clicking the Edit button, or by double-clicking the right-most “validation” column of the block.

The block editor has three tabs:

Properties

This page lets you edit basic properties such as name, sub-system and base unit. See editing properties for more information.

Matrix

This page lets you edit the visual properties of the block in the Model window?. See Editing matrix properties for more information.

Values

The block can be configured to return either the total inventory of all the compartments in the transport operation, or their mean value.

See also