Greyveils Transportation Tutorial

[streuli999 0]

wonderful work, my cities wil be running smoothly now!

[Goldfish4209 9]

Wonderful work! I love this!

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[Battlecat 14]

Nice work!  This really helps clarify some methods for encouraging transit use. 

[fate556 5]

ur very smart when it comes to transportation great advice

[owenluby 1]

this is some really great work! keep it up!very good tips and advice

[armed2010 0]

My god, this is amazing! Thank you so much for this in-depth transportation tutorial. This is now my Sim City 4 bible.

I have one question though, how would you go about placing schools and hospitals and such? They won't fit in the little spaces between the residential and won't cover the whole area if I place them on the outskirts of the residential.

[Meastro444 1]

simply, make more space

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work i have learnt something hopefully

[mutan 0]

i know it is a long time ago since you posted these tutorials but is it possible that you make the tutorials for the el train and especially monorail, like you planned to do . Anyway these where very helpfull and explained the basics very well.

Cheers

[lockstep 0]

A very good tutorial - sound advice, wonderful presentation!

[asteconn 9]

armed2010: Theorising I think such services would go in at the expense of some R

[LordTarren 0]

Although this is a very interesting tutorial, I must say that after trying it myself, attempting to recreate this as much as possible, the exact opposite results occured.

One - they stubbornly continued to use their cars as much as possible anyway

Two - they refused to even acknowledge the existance of the industrial area. When I put in commercial close by, they worked there instead. When I got rid of it and used *only* industrial, they got "no job" zots. The only way to get them to work was to replace the industrial entirely with commercial instead.

Three - the *only* time they started using busses more than cars was when I enacted the "mass transit only" radical ordinance

I have no idea why I got these results instead, but to each their own, I guess. SC4 is a finicky servant indeed

[patrickov 0]

Can the work be accomplished without mods?

[GriZly 0]

I followed your guide and still have commute problems?

I resized your image.--hym

[tommiej 0]

very good guid to all SC4 players, very nice, like it!

[MrFingers 0]

grizly, make sure you installed NAM properly. there are a bunch of mod files you need to strip from it or else they will conflict. they modify commute time, speed, road capacity, etc.

[GriZly 0]

I installed the one from the NAM package on STEX....

[FrankU 354]

One of the questions I asked myself is: do on- and offramps slow down the travling time of the highway. You said it doesn't. That makes me happy. But another: do crossroads slow down traveling time or do the lower the capacity? Is it wise tom ake a minimum of crossroads, or doesn't it matter?

Another thing I read about is that in the original SC4 commuters always took the shortest route, not the quickest. Is this still the case in SC4RH with NAM?

Your tutorial is very instructive. Thanks a lot.

[thundercrack83 0]

Great job! Very informative. I'll be using these tactics in my cities from now on. Thanks!

[sean9721 0]

Now, this is the best tutorial I have ever seen....period.  I have had the game for 4 years and I have never seen a tutorial this good.  Excellent work!!!!  It is a big help to me.      EXCELLENT

[lord_kld 0]

wonderful work Thanks

[Encrypted 0]

Is there some sort of mod being used here? Because I don't see any bus stops but they are mentioned in the beggining...

[Voulpiotis 4]

Those road-top bus stops that can be found in the STEX. You plop them on the road!

[sandokan 0]

Very Good Tutorial there, Greyveil! Congratulations! I have yet to test this method, but I'm sure it will work wonderfully in my new cities. It would be very useful to complete it with the elevated rail and the monorail. And I have a question. Does it help to have two adjacent rail tracks in congested lines? I've never tested it, and I don't know if it really reduce the congestion or it only has an eye candy effect

SANDOKAN

[King Daily 0]

First off, what bus stops are you using? And when is the next update be up?

[opbravo 0]

those are custom bus stops that can be found on the STEX. if you do a search for road top bus stops you should get a lot of hits.

[King Daily 0]

Originally posted by: opbravo those are custom bus stops that can be found on the STEX. if you do a search for road top bus stops you should get a lot of hits.quote>

Thanks I found them!

[hawkpride147 1]

GriZly: just because your traffic volume is high, does not mean you have bad traffic...check your congestion

[Carrodoni 0]

I found this out by myself a month or two ago, since then my largest city record has gone from 40k population to my current behemoth of 600k. I use bus stops at every intersection, next to every transit stop etc. I think the key to getting a large, working city without spending to much (heck, I'm cashing in twice what I spend on MT on fares), is to use busses and later subway and maybe monorail or el rail. Of course, I still have traffic problems but that's only in my CBD, and my overused subway . Great guide!

[mightygoose 92]

to carrodoni, welcome to Simtropolis, for once someone who makes a decent first post.... yeah buses are great for boosting your budget and killing congestion. to others, i dont know if this was intended to have another update