Industrial Commuters

[vFareW 1]

Does anyone know why when you route query industrial buildings it almost never shows commuters and the routes they take to the building? That might be hard to understand; I mean that most of the time when I click on industry it shows the freight leaving but no commuters going to it. Only a few buildings show the commuters heading to their jobs even though all of the buildings have their occupancy filled.

Been wondering this for a while...

Also CS and CO don't seem to have that problem, although most of the time less commuters are shows than jobs filled which is fine. I realize that the traffic sim needs time to run for industry, but after 20+ game years still nothing in all of my cities

  Edited September 12, 2011 by vFareW  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Only the route query will give you the number of workers at a building. The regular query give a ratio x/y where x is the number of workers possible under the game conditions, and y is the maximum number of workers for the building. This says nothing about workers who work there.

[Lucario Boricua 7,027]

I understand this question--but I don't know the answer--why would the game be programmed to show only the freight exiting the industrial buildings but not the commuters entering them? It's also worth mentioning that agricultural buildings don't have this problem, nor the civics buildings.

[vFareW 1]

Only the route query will give you the number of workers at a building. The regular query give a ratio x/y where x is the number of workers possible under the game conditions, and y is the maximum number of workers for the building. This says nothing about workers who work there.

Wait, so the industrial buildings don't have any workers? That wouldn't make any sense since the buildings still produce freight, don't abandon, and demand is still high.

One hypothesis I had was the prospect of commuters from a neighboring city, but loading nearby cities and letting the traffic sim run in them before saving and going back to the main city does not do anything.

[His Divine Hand 244]

First, unless you use the control button while zoning industry, you will get several different buildings that have specific "jobs" for that zone. One of those jobs is to be zone anchor. That is were all commuters come in.

Second, while your residents need jobs to survive, in Sim City businesses don't need workers! Yes, in this crazy world business function by will power alone if necessary!

[EyeofMobius 27]

The way to see where the commuters are coming from/to is to route query the roadways around. Then you can find the 'zone anchors' His Divine Hand mentioned.