Show us Your Interchanges!

[Wiimeiser 436]

Maybe replace the stack with a 3-level roundabout? And replace the FLUPS with a 2-level roundabout? I'd like to see that.

 

Also I lol'd at "This is not a region" near the end

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

Maybe replace the stack with a 3-level roundabout?

All Roundabout-type Interchanges are low-capacity in real-life, so to have them in a high-traffic area wouldn't sound ideal, especially where there's a lot of traffic that's turning left or right and not straight.

Besides, knowing Ryan, it would be too small and not too complicated enough.

[REFJR 0]

A couple pics of my latest creation . . .

And after a little residential development in the vicinity:

There's 4 new features hiding in those pics . . . one is really well disguised.

-Alex

 

 

Yay  - super two   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_two aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-lane_expressway

[medit84truth 70]

 

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[Linoa06 1,374]

So, I got on the RHW bandwagon... 

 

This is part of the Gold Coast Parkway, a 4-lane interstate built in the 60s to link various communities on the eastern coast of Traebia.

 

 

So this is a general view of I-10 passing Ayleston, along with a stub (I-105) leading to the southern suburbs of Seahaven. I had quite a bunch of trouble figuring out the interchange itself - I really, really, really wish we could make more actual interchanges with the small MIS passing each other above the highway or something.

 

 

 

That's a close-up of Exit 24 I've had fun with the Imaginerean set by MandelSoft (I wasn't sure to go for German or Dutch signage - why not both Zoidberg ).

 

There'll be highways in some update coming up in my CJ, but in the meanwhile, interchanges

[Patricius Maximus 236]

I've taken a break from exploring NAM 31 to show you my first interchange made from NAM 31 components. This is only the beginning...

 

[Bipin 3,402]

Talk about legacy support...

 

 

This new NAM is awesome!       

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Here's my first three-level semi-directional T. Note the heavy use of fractional angle pieces and the flyover ramps:

 

[bluemoose 223]

Loving the new features of NAM 31.  It's been a rocky start, but I believe in the NAM team.  (Please never set a release date again).

 

Project Symphony is great.  Used it to build an approach to a bridge here in my national capital.

 

I'll take suggestions as to how to avoid the level railroad crossing there.

[Zodicus 34]

I have browsed through much of this thread in my little over a year here at the ST and I have yet to see any worthwhile utilization of HOV lanes. What I am looking for is a design that incorporates a separate RHW2 or 4 inner dedicated HOV lanes between 2 larger 8S or larger main lanes. I've found that designing something like that is incredibly difficult. Any suggestions highway geeks?

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

Done with NAM30 (just now installing 31)

I couldn't get any RHW to cross over TLA7 or AVE6... so I came up with a creative alternative. Connect the TLA7 to RHW6C. Worked like a charm!

 

[Forthwall 1,118]

That's a nice idea, looks great too

[Johan_91 179]

@bluemoose

You could lower the motorway and elevate the railwaytracks over the road and the motorway (:

[Lost Realist 762]

My first contribution to this thread. Sure as hell not as impressive as some other stuff in here, but whatever. Bam!

 

[AIX 270]

I have browsed through much of this thread in my little over a year here at the ST and I have yet to see any worthwhile utilization of HOV lanes. What I am looking for is a design that incorporates a separate RHW2 or 4 inner dedicated HOV lanes between 2 larger 8S or larger main lanes. I've found that designing something like that is incredibly difficult. Any suggestions highway geeks?

 

I posted a series of collector/distributor lanes many pages back in this thread. Two separate carriageways for each direction. The inner lanes could have been HOV, but there weren't appropriate HOV lane markings available at the time. I am going to re-visit it once NAM 31 is a little more polished. 

 

Edit: I dug up the old picture.

 

[Cob92 360]

I have browsed through much of this thread in my little over a year here at the ST and I have yet to see any worthwhile utilization of HOV lanes. What I am looking for is a design that incorporates a separate RHW2 or 4 inner dedicated HOV lanes between 2 larger 8S or larger main lanes. I've found that designing something like that is incredibly difficult. Any suggestions highway geeks?

 

I posted a series of collector/distributor lanes many pages back in this thread. Two separate carriageways for each direction. The inner lanes could have been HOV, but there weren't appropriate HOV lane markings available at the time. I am going to re-visit it once NAM 31 is a little more polished. 

 

Edit: I dug up the old picture.

 

 

I think he's referring to something more like this:

 

Where the HOV lane is that walled off lane in the center of the freeway. In SC4 it would have to be RHW2 since reversible lanes are not possible.

[Forthwall 1,118]

Very long and nice

[Haljackey 17,268]

I feel like trolling and making a show us your interchanges in SC13 city building concepts... because there's only 1.

 

 

:kitty:

[Bipin 3,402]

I feel like trolling and making a show us your interchanges in SC13 city building concepts... because there's only 1.

 

 

:kitty:

 

Hey man whyd id you copy my interchange in MY region!!! Come on be more creative, don't make every interchange the same as mine!11!

 

See what I did there?

[Zodicus 34]

I have browsed through much of this thread in my little over a year here at the ST and I have yet to see any worthwhile utilization of HOV lanes. What I am looking for is a design that incorporates a separate RHW2 or 4 inner dedicated HOV lanes between 2 larger 8S or larger main lanes. I've found that designing something like that is incredibly difficult. Any suggestions highway geeks?

 

I posted a series of collector/distributor lanes many pages back in this thread. Two separate carriageways for each direction. The inner lanes could have been HOV, but there weren't appropriate HOV lane markings available at the time. I am going to re-visit it once NAM 31 is a little more polished. 

 

Edit: I dug up the old picture.

 

 

 

 

Nicely done AIX. I love the look of it unfortunately it is too large for my application with the collectors. I am attempting to do it with a DD system. Right now I have 10S running on both sides on DD in the center. The problems is is that when that DD comes up to a massive interchange I have to drop it down to L2 and pray to god I can get L3 and L1 to get through there, then raise it back to DD. Another issue is that I need to account for entrance and exit ramps. To do this I have made use of the 8S split ramp. I run it down to 2 4S and then use the 4 inside exit and entrances to facilitate flow from the HOV lanes to the main freeway.

 

  The ultimate vision will be for commuters wanting off onto the intermediate surface streets to get off the HOV, on to the freeway, then off to those roads. At major highways, spurs, and other freeways there will be full incorporation of HOV access to those without the need to merge onto the freeway. Of course that is the ultimate plan. Implementing that is a COMPLETELY different story. As you can see from my earliest work - taken about 3 hours before this post - it's off to a rough start. This is the first major interchange to start construction in a fresh region.

 

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[AIX 270]

 

I have browsed through much of this thread in my little over a year here at the ST and I have yet to see any worthwhile utilization of HOV lanes. What I am looking for is a design that incorporates a separate RHW2 or 4 inner dedicated HOV lanes between 2 larger 8S or larger main lanes. I've found that designing something like that is incredibly difficult. Any suggestions highway geeks?

 

I posted a series of collector/distributor lanes many pages back in this thread. Two separate carriageways for each direction. The inner lanes could have been HOV, but there weren't appropriate HOV lane markings available at the time. I am going to re-visit it once NAM 31 is a little more polished. 

 

Edit: I dug up the old picture.

 

 

 

 

Nicely done AIX. I love the look of it unfortunately it is too large for my application with the collectors. I am attempting to do it with a DD system. Right now I have 10S running on both sides on DD in the center. The problems is is that when that DD comes up to a massive interchange I have to drop it down to L2 and pray to god I can get L3 and L1 to get through there, then raise it back to DD. Another issue is that I need to account for entrance and exit ramps. To do this I have made use of the 8S split ramp. I run it down to 2 4S and then use the 4 inside exit and entrances to facilitate flow from the HOV lanes to the main freeway.

 

  The ultimate vision will be for commuters wanting off onto the intermediate surface streets to get off the HOV, on to the freeway, then off to those roads. At major highways, spurs, and other freeways there will be full incorporation of HOV access to those without the need to merge onto the freeway. Of course that is the ultimate plan. Implementing that is a COMPLETELY different story. As you can see from my earliest work - taken about 3 hours before this post - it's off to a rough start. This is the first major interchange to start construction in a fresh region.

 

I tend to build my infrastructure very massively.

 

For HOV lanes, a real-world place you might want to look at is Seattle, WA. Through their city centre, I-5 has a set of variable-direction lanes under the main motorway that serve as HOV lanes. Instead of having commuters merge from HOV > main carriageway > exit, there are exits directly off the HOV lanes onto main arterial streets (not as many exits as the regular lanes). Would reduce the need for potentially dangerous merging

[Zodicus 34]

That is very true and I have actually seen that. I was an I-5 corridor truck driver for 3 years from Medford OR I do like their system up there but I am not sure how I would be able to place that inside my region. I came up with the HOV-merge to main lanes - exit just based off of what we have here in Houston. If you look at google earth or my fav, mapper.acme.com You can see on the west side of Houston west of I610 the Katy freeway. This is the freeway I live off of and travel everyday for work. The inner HOV lanes would be the equivalent to our 4S and the main lanes from HWY6 east to I45 are 8S, 10S in places where major surface streets merge with the freeway. This is what I am accustomed to and really the only way I know how to build the dern thing.

 

  I can tell you that merging from the HOV lanes to the exit in a short distance across 5-6 lanes is retarded from personal experience but that the only way I can figure this thing out lol.

[Jazzmaster 716]

Whipped this up despite the bugs in the new NAM.  Of course, it's still a WIP:

 

[MandelSoft 2,769]

I feel like trolling and making a show us your interchanges in SC13 city building concepts... because there's only 1.

 

 

:kitty:

Ah, new SimCity, still that same old three-to-two lane interchange connection that they did have in SC4 too...

[AIX 270]

That is very true and I have actually seen that. I was an I-5 corridor truck driver for 3 years from Medford OR I do like their system up there but I am not sure how I would be able to place that inside my region. I came up with the HOV-merge to main lanes - exit just based off of what we have here in Houston. If you look at google earth or my fav, mapper.acme.com You can see on the west side of Houston west of I610 the Katy freeway. This is the freeway I live off of and travel everyday for work. The inner HOV lanes would be the equivalent to our 4S and the main lanes from HWY6 east to I45 are 8S, 10S in places where major surface streets merge with the freeway. This is what I am accustomed to and really the only way I know how to build the dern thing.

 

  I can tell you that merging from the HOV lanes to the exit in a short distance across 5-6 lanes is retarded from personal experience but that the only way I can figure this thing out lol.

 

Texas is one of few states in which I have no personal experience driving. Further north of Seattle as you get into Everett and I-405 merging back onto I-5, they have a simpler HOV lane setup, but with barriers in key places to prevent people from merging across 4-6 lanes. IIRC, you can't get from HOV NB onto I-405 for that reason.

 

I am taking my primary region on hiatus while the NAM 31 bugs are worked out and working on a side "mini region", where I plan to employ as compact a setup as possible with my infrastructure.

[AIX 270]

I'll volunteer the first "NAM31 Work" here...

 

In commemoration of the NAM 31 release, I name the wide 12-lane avenue "Avenida 1 de Marzo". Once we have NAM31SE, the RHW6S bridge will be changed into the more iconic cable-stayed variant. I checked the paths and commuters, it is fully functional despite the visual errors.

 

 

[Zodicus 34]

Can't wait to see how you do that. Your work is pretty impressive with the larger setups.

[Zodicus 34]

Sorry for dp i dont have an edit feature on my phone. If i am not mistaken AIX 405 is the main inner loop around downtown LA and the busiest freeway in the country. Im a little rusty on my freeways and havent driven a semi in a year but i dont think there are 2 405. Remember any freeway with a even number is a loop usually with the last number(s) corresponding to the freeway it loops around and odds are spur routes (think 610 off i10 here in houston and i195 which is a spur in miami if jm not mistaken)

[AIX 270]

Sorry for dp i dont have an edit feature on my phone. If i am not mistaken AIX 405 is the main inner loop around downtown LA and the busiest freeway in the country. Im a little rusty on my freeways and havent driven a semi in a year but i dont think there are 2 405. Remember any freeway with a even number is a loop usually with the last number(s) corresponding to the freeway it loops around and odds are spur routes (think 610 off i10 here in houston and i195 which is a spur in miami if jm not mistaken)

There are three I-405s that I know of: Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. IIRC, there can be duplicate auxiliary route numbers, just not within the same state. 

 

I live a couple blocks from the Portland I-405. It is just a tiny little loop around our city centre.

[Zodicus 34]

Congrats! You just taught a professional driver who should know all of the driving laws (federal - DOT and State) by heart something new. I knew there couldn't be two of them but I thought that was at the federal level. Good going

 

  Well, I am off for the weekend so I am really going to knuckle down and figure this HOV thing out. If you got any ideas as to what may work let me know and I'll crunch down and see what we can miniaturize it to. I think it is more possible now with NAM31 than it ever was. Let put that to a test.