I am using SAS Simulation stuodio 13.2 to describe simulation model for public transportation system.
In the model we have multiple buses that serve customers to different destination (i.e. From route A will serve from JFK airport to Time Square, route B will serve from JFK airport to Penn Station, and so on).
Maximum capacity of bus is 30 and Bus is operating based on schedule time. (i.e. Route A will depart every 30 mintues and total customers in the bus lies between 1 and 30).
Here is my first question. Can we have a single resource that can have multiple entities? (20 entities are allocated to route A resouce. Also release time of entites is different, even though they are assigned to the resouce at the same time. For example, person A gets off middle of route A and person B gets off end of route A. Similraly seize time is different to entities).
My second question is can we vary number of available resouces based on time? (for example, after certain time, we dispose 10 of used buses and purchase 12 new buses and put these buses for service)
I am not familar with simulation studio, so I am not sure how I can describe model.
Thank you for all your comments in advance.
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