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Maybe I am missing something but is there a way to plot events as and when they happen? There are two ways this could be done: 1) Choose a State Variable and ask SIMIO to show you its value on the vertical axis and the time it happens on the horizontal axis. At the moment, this can happen, but we get a continuous line and not dots. Events need to be seen as at an instant in time. 2) If no state is available, say I want to plot the arrival events to find when they are taking place (checking the distribution), we can agree that an event has a value of 1. Attached is a dotted status plot showing some accumulating value on the x-axis. Thanks

It seems the approach I had in mind was much more complicated than necessary. Thanks to your suggestion, I was able to resolve the issue. After applying your method, it worked seamlessly in my model. Thank you very much for your help.

You could improve this with a monitor inside a subclassed vehicle verifying the ResourceState change and executing a process to add the wages aswell. But for now, I think the solution above is fine.

You are correct. When they are moving to pickup the cost is not considered. Easy way to verify is to change the velocity of the vehicle to a really high value. You'll get the 1440 as expected. I would probably not use Costs directly. Instead, I would create a Process on Run Ending. Search through the population of vehicles and save the values accordingly, like: vehicle.resourcestate.TotalTime(0)*2 -> would give you 2 USD per hour on a given state, in this case state 0 (idle). vehicle.resourcestate.TotalTime(1)*2 -> would give you 2 USD per hour on a given state, in this case state 1 (busy). If you need to see these values separated, you would need a matrix to save these values depending on the number of the vehicles. Or, you subclass the vehicle and create a vector where each element of the vector would save each cost. Else, you just keep adding to a variable for each vehicle on the system. There is probably another way manipulating the cost inside the process of the vehicles, or using a monitor verifying resourcestates changes on a subclassed vehicle.