[sumo-user] Choice of step-method and device.stationfinder.

[Sven <sven.social@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear SUMO-Community,

to add the final touches to my project, im a currently again reading through the extensive documentation. 

However, i have encountered that some details remain unclear to me.

Concerning the step-method. I am using a simulation step-length of 1. The documentation on defining the integration method recommends using the step-method ballistic for large timesteps (1) and if the car following model is continous. I am using the standard "carFollowing-Krauss" and have found the publication "SUMO’s Interpretation of the Krauß Model", which uses the term "semi-implicit Euler update", and seeems to be between continous and discrete, which doesn't tell me much. 

I therefore wanted to ask if the standard model falls into the defintion of continous and if so, is using the ballistic model recommended with it at step-length 1 and with no use of a sublane model? 

I also noticed that changing the model to ballistic messes with starting and stopping at bus stops:
"Warning: Invalid departPos 18.23 given for vehicle 'bus_3237', time=29959.00. Inserting at lane end instead."

My second problem concerns the station finder, in combination with the battery device, I don't know which of these to define for setting the charging power:

"device.stationfinder.maxChargePower"    The maximum charging speed of the vehicle battery
"device.battery.maximumChargeRate"  Maximum charging rate of the battery

Which option takes precedence over the other?

Again, concerning the station finder, should I use the reserve factor when my goal is to extract realistic usage estimations, or would this just skew my results in favour of a security margin?
"reserveFactor" Scale battery need with this factor to account for unexpected traffic situation.

Please see my v_type and config files attached to 

If anyone could give me some hints at how to proceed here, id be very grateful.

Best regards,

Sven