Program Documentation for TRAFFIX™ consists of the following sections:
Chapters 1 to 5 - Getting Started
Chapters 6 to 18 - Reference Documentation
Chapters 19 to 23 - Level of Service Calculation Technical Notes
Appendices
Help file accessible from the Help menu
Chapters 1 to 5 - Getting Started is designed for first time users. It explains how to install TRAFFIX™, as well as the basic features of TRAFFIX™ and how to put them into use.
Chapters 6 to 18 - Reference and Features provides users with a reference tool for looking up how each menu item in TRAFFIX™ works and how to interpret error messages and solve program operation problems.
Chapters 19 to 23 -- Level of Service Calculation Technical Notes explains the engineering calculations used by TRAFFIX™ to calculate level of service. These notes are vital to understand how to select among the various parameters and input options available in TRAFFIX™ and for correctly interpreting the output. These notes supplement but do not replace the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). Users are expected to be familiar with the analytical procedures contained in the Highway Capacity Manual and should have a copy of that document available for their reference.
A detailed Help is available from the Help menu choice while the program is running. This file provides information on many of the items that a user may have questions about while using the program, such as program operation, hot key shortcut keystrokes, sequence of steps in a typical analysis, and explanation of the advanced features. From the Help window Options menu, the user can select to keep the help window on top for reference while using the program. The search button provides an Index search and a Find search. Use the Find search to look for individual words in the Help file.
Context-sensitive help information can be obtained by using Shift-F1, which activates the "what's this" arrow with question mark cursor. Simply point to an item in question and click to access specific information about that item.