How Can I Start CFI Intersection & Express EZ-Pass

[RmanB17499 0]

I am currently interested in designing and testing a few components for the game. I really enjoy transportation planning and what I would like to make are the following items:

Transportation Related

1. Express E-Z Pass

Electronic Toll Collection facility that gathers toll information from transponders, loops, and built-in scales on the road. It records the toll at highway speed and results in little to no congestion on the tollway. A modified version could be also be used on avenues or roads instead of highways, but again, I haven't decided if I would make one of them or limit it to regular highways only. A form of open-road tolling.

2. Continuous Flow Intersection

For Ave-Ave intersections

with 2 or 4 legs -- I haven't decided that part.

A full discussion with images, samples, and Google Earth links of CFI intersections is here:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=81851

Public Safety

1. Volunteer Fire and Life Safety Department (Fire/EMS) or just a Volunteer FD if EMS is pointless.... I wonder if providing ambulance only coverage to part of a city would result in health care from an under-utilized, but nearby (but out of area) hospital/medical clinic.

I understand that the images have to be made to offer up to 5 levels of zoom.

But where do I start to describe these facilities, their properties and how they affect the city. I also know that the Fire Department should be designed in BAT. But, what about the road pieces for an EZ-Pass or CFI?

[jplumbley 5]

Well, it is good that you want to start these projects.... But you should only post your questions once not 3 times. Then you might have to wait a day or tow before you get an answer. Not everyone here knows how to do this stuff and you have to wait for the ones that do.

I know that toll booths are plopped lots so you will need to BAT your version of the Toll Booth and then make a toll booth lot out of it, using Plug-in Manager and Lot Editor.

Then your CFI you will have to create the textures for it. One texture for each square and view, so if the intersection is 2x6 you will have 60 textures to create. And then you will have to mod it so it will show up in game. I dont know how to do that part.

For the Fire/Life Department you will have to BAT it, and lot it using Plug-in Manager and Lot Editor.

JPlumbley

[USMC 0]

FYI, There is already at least one version of the "E-Z pass" type toll on the STEX. The other two ideas sound good to me. Best of luck.

[RmanB17499 0]

Cool, thanks, I'll look for the E-Z Pass

[RmanB17499 0]

Oh for the Toll Booth did you mean Toll Booth Booster V2.0 ?? Or is there another option out there? I haven't tried that Booster, yet. Is everything on STEX available for download piece meal from the Moddds & Downloads section?

[Haljackey 17,385]

There is an electronic toll collector made already on the STEX. It even has an asphalt texture for asphalt users. However, this resembles highway 407 ETR, the the world's first electronic highway. I donno if this is different from the EZ-Pass thing.

[RmanB17499 0]

http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/oneway.htm

That's on the Garden State Parkway. The New Jersey Turnpike has an Express entry point and I believe they are working on an Express exit, too. But other NJ Turnpike Toll Plaza's are on exits, only. The GSP has mainline toll booth plaza's as well as entrance and exit toll booths. On the GSP the only express toll booths are on that link: they are always main-line toll plazas. In other words, toll plaza's built into the middle of the highway.

But the 407 ETR uses the same technology and same idea: so that's fine with me!

So which do I download for the STEX / 407 ETR Tolling System? "Toll Booth Booster V2.0 "??