Mass Transit Confusion...Sad face...

[Cenobite30 0]

First and longest question:

I have never been able to figure out if there is a "best" way to design a subway system. I have two ideas, and I was wondering if you guys have been able to notice a difference between the two. The first is very similar to real cities. You place differeny subway lines , some of them intersecting and serving sort of as transfer points. In the end the system looks sort of like a spider (or group of spiders), where people don't necessarily go from A to B, but must pass through C to reach B. The other system involves a sort of grid Let's say that I have nine subway sations that are placed in a square-ish arrangement, three rows of three, it doesn't matter how far apart, like so:

123

456

789

I then connect each station to each adjacent station. For example, 1 is connected to 2 and 4, 8 is connected to 5, 7 and 9, and so on.

So, in terms of travel time and usage by the Sim population, which of those is more effecient? I realize that the second example is a bit of a waste of money, but let us assume that money is not an issue in this case.

Second question (much shorter):

Does the number of stops in a mass transit system effect the speed of the system? Consider this example:

Station A and Station B are 50 squares apart via subway. There are no stations in between. Lets say it takes 100 seconds to travel that distance.

Now assume that there are 8 stations in between A and B. Does the time to get from A to B increase, or does it stay the same?

Third:

With the most recent RoadTopMassTransit mod, buildings that are one square wide and face the roadtop station have a "No Road" zot above them and they are eventually abandoned. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way around this?

Final question:

Do monorails need to be built in a circuit, or can they be built in a line? I tried both, but nobody uses it either way. I guess that means I don't really need a monorail, but I would just like to know for the heck of it.

Thank you for your help.

[punkrockgoth1988 1]

If your lots face <> have the buses on the side streets where no lots face. (I know it bites but I saw this issue and was like, "Aw man, that defeats the whole purpose of having roadtop buses...

[Qualm 0]

Originally posted by: Cenobite30 First and longest question:

Second question (much shorter):

Does the number of stops in a mass transit system effect the speed of the system? Consider this example:

Station A and Station B are 50 squares apart via subway. There are no stations in between. Lets say it takes 100 seconds to travel that distance.

Now assume that there are 8 stations in between A and B. Does the time to get from A to B increase, or does it stay the same?

Third:

With the most recent RoadTopMassTransit mod, buildings that are one square wide and face the roadtop station have a "No Road" zot above them and they are eventually abandoned. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way around this?

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2) I've asked this question before and never got an answer.  Still don't know the answer to this.

3) There is a couple of ways around it - A) use the RTMT stations that straddle intersections, I do this routinely for roads; B) put the RTMT stations on the zone square directly adjacent to an intersection - if the people can get out the side of their yard, on the other street, that works;  C) eventually, most lots are more than 1 square wide, and you can place some more stations if you really want to.

[CaptCity 4,911]

Regarding the question about the number of stops... According to this post, the number of stops does not affect the commute time along a particular route. That kind of makes sense (at least for the game) since, if it did, Sims would always want to drive because that would be a non-stop route. So it sounds like going from A to B to C to D would not take any longer than going straight from A to D.