Can exporting affected by traffic congestion?

[honam1021 1]

I noticed that my plastics aren't exporting, and the region highway are jammed.

 

Are there any relationship between traffic congestion and exporting?

[Hypochondriac 0]

I noticed that my plastics aren't exporting, and the region highway are jammed.

 

Are there any relationship between traffic congestion and exporting?

 

Yes if traffic is congested you trucks can't leave to make the deliveries. I believe is you ship out using rail or water, you can still ship while avoiding the traffic delays

[lordax 3]

I was getting complaints that "iron storage is full", wondered why, I have 3 of them, they are set to be sold, so since I was concentrated on checking stuff down the map I decided to check the exit and found this:

Iron trucks were there, somewhere in the middle. I patiently waited to see how long they will take to move, it passed 5 in game days, they didn't move a bit. Those 2 other cities are mine as you can see on the icons; as this city, they don't have any traffic problem, you can see in this city there's not even a car in the roads; to the right on the highway there's nothing, I'm at the border of the map, however the game likes to generate people just "passing by"... 

[Cob92 360]

It is most definitely affected. That's why its a good idea to get a ship dock or train station ASAP; the highway traffic in a built up region will cripple any city that relies on trucks to move goods.

[Morticcia 0]

Truck shipping is a pain.  Any serious traffic and you're going to go broke when doing expensive specializations like electronics.   When I first encountered the problem I was trying out the oil rigs and just learning to get a handle of the whole freight process.  In order to get the larger depot you need to make a certain amount of trade in a day.  Yet you can't make that amount of trade because your frickin' trucks get stuck in traffic for 18 hours trying to get back into your city.   I kept building trade depots until it took one run of trucks leaving the city to get the trade building upgrade.  Once I got trade normalized with the trade dock, I could bulldoze all of those trade depots.

 

I learned then that, for me, shipping by water rules.  The bigger depot means less acreage wasted on the depots to hold large amounts of your end-product and the ships come regularly and pay you for a lot of goods at once.  

 

I built my first large-scale computer/electronics city yesterday in a land/rail only city.  The train rarely came and when it did, most times it didn't pick up any freight.  I bulldozed it.   By keeping my city small (less than 15K in mostly high density housing) and finagling my streets I was able to give my trucks the right of way and it didn't take long to make a hefty profit.  

 

edited content - unfinished thoughts

  Edited April 2, 2013 by Morticcia  

[honam1021 1]

You can sell resources by trains and sea, but great work construction resources must be delivered via road.

 

And that's the problem

 

UPDATE:Added some pics

UPDATE 2:I noticed that buses coming from other region are the main source of traffic congestion.If everyone in theregion shutdown their bus stations, will this solve the problem?