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About This File
What we have here is a new transporation method. Sims take cabs!
It is a 1x1 lot which you place near any road, which gives every pedestrian a ride to the office & back. Small plopp fee & no maintence (private business). There is also a 1x1 RoadTop lot which you place on the roads to save space.
What it basically does is the reverse of a parking lot. Instead of turning cars into pedestrians, it turns pedestrians into cars. While this concept has been implemented into an older lot (rent-a-car or so) by someone else, i've decided to make some taxis.
This is how it works:
- Sims walk up to one of these stations, either from their home or some kind of MassTransit station (btw, taxis in this lot are not considered MT, but rather just Cars). They then convert to cars which takes them anywhere their own regular car would take them.
- At the end of the day, they need to get back. Since they arrived at their workplace as a 'car', the simulation thinks its their own car and thus they just ride straight home. Think of it as taxis patroling the commercial districts. The next morning it starts over. Sim gets on MT to next taxi stop & takes a ride to work. <- this though depends on what is fastest.
I've noticed in my tests that some sims prefer walking to one of the taxistands instead of taking their own car on the same road, which would be faster.
I have also noticed that sims prefer using taxis on occations, instead of taking a bus which on a road actually travels faster. Though this is probably do to the fact that the taxi takes them directly to the work place, and if they would ride the bus or some other 'faster' MT they would have to walk from the station to the workplace.
Anyway, just so you know, taxistands are common in metropolitan areas where taxis just park and wait for customers. You can find a lot of them in Vienna, Austria.
Enjoy, and feel free to post your suggestions.
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UPDATE: VERSION 2
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-Bug fix: Buses & trucks could not transit RoadTop Taxi stand - fixed it real quick! No change made to anything else.
** changed one screenshot - the roundabout in the last made the transit arrows look kinda wierd. Besides, this is a better example
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UPDATE VERSION 3
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- Added taxis driving up & down the streets - thx to darkmatter
- Fixed a bug, that i originally concidered a feature, that would change cars back into pedestrians (simulating arriving passengers). This gave it a dual function of being a taxi stand AND a parking lot. Fixed that! Now it only converts pedestrians into cars and thats it! <- works out better this way.
- Added description texts to each lot
Lots are IMO complete now and i won't update them again unless a bug surfaces.
Enjoy
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