Working with TCM Input Files

This file contains values for each passenger, and is used with the information in the TCM Passenger and TCM Boundaries managers for the thermal comfort calculations. The file is composed of sections, each of which starts with SECTION <SECTION NAME> and finishes with END. Any lines in the file which begin with % are considered comments. Additionally, everything following ! is considered a comment.

An example of the file format has been provided.

PASSENGER

SECTION PASSENGER contains one line, with the number of passengers in the simulation (including the driver, if applicable).

PASSDATA

SECTION PASSDATA loops through data of all the passengers. For each passenger, the following items are required (one item per line):

• Passenger name
• Passenger height (in meters)
• Passenger surface metabolic rate (relative to 58 W / m²)
• Clothing resistance (in m²K/W)—This is applied to all body segments except the head and hands.
• Initial surface temperatures (in degrees C) for each body segment -- Each passenger is divided into 14 segments, and data for the segments is always presented in the sequence shown in the example.

After all of the data is given for Passenger #1, the sequence is repeated for Passenger #2, #3, and so on, as needed.