methinks nam doesn't count pedestrian travel properly

[halby 5]

when i set max trip time to 6 (maxis default) everything works beautifully. in a normal city... but then if i make it so that the ONLY way to get to a certain job, is to walk 50 tiles... people will do it, they will walk 50 tiles.

i think the max trip time variable only works on non-pedestrian travel OR maybe NAM set pedestrian travel speed to 500 miles per hour.

[z1 566]

Wrong on both counts. Max trip time works on everything, and the pedestrian speed in the NAM is 9 mph. (Yes, this is unrealistic, but it's still the slowest of any travel type, and most of the travel type speeds have to be unrealistic in order to make the traffic simulator as a whole work realistically. Overall, in vanilla SC4, it's even worse, with buses traveling twice as fast as cars, and subways and el trains traveling 90 mph, compared to 64 mph in the NAM.)

Fifty tiles is only 800 meters (about half a mile); in RL, people walk that far to work all the time. And with a walking speed of 9 mph, Sims can cover that distance in a little over 3 minutes - just a little over half of your max trip time of 6 minutes.