Buses - I don't get them.

[iEthereal 1]

Hello all , i'm a newbie so please don't be offended if the question is just that idiotic but...

I don't know, i have a 45 thousand population atm, and i have almost no traffic problems due to 3-lane avenues from NAM...

But recently i'm starting to have some traffic jam here and there, even with trains,railways and subways everywhere.

Those get used,at least, little, but they do.  Although there's 0 use of bus in the whole city!

I don't get why... they are very well distributed and i have some bus/subway/railway integration stations, yet there's literally 0 use...

What am i doing wrong ?

Thank you if you can spare some time!

[docj101 99]

just a few questions that will help us help you.

 

which version of NAM did you install v30 or v31?  are you using any other game modifying plugins?  you mentioned custom stations, did you read their included documentation?

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Remember you need to have bus stops in both your residential areas as well as your commercial and industrial areas (where they come from and where they work).

 

Also you can use the Traffic Sim. Config. Tool that comes with the NAM and turn up mass transit usage.

[z1 566]

Also you can use the Traffic Sim. Config. Tool that comes with the NAM and turn up mass transit usage.

 

That actually won't help in this case.  It's essentially a multiplier, and zero times anything is still zero.

 

If you have an extensive enough subway system, Sims won't use the buses because the subways are so much faster.  Buses have to go places that the subways don't in order to be used.

[docj101 99]

That actually won't help in this case.  It's essentially a multiplier, and zero times anything is still zero.

 

 

lol, good call

[Turjan 1,048]

I would like to know: How do you determine zero use? In the traffic graph? In the station query? In the path query? By looking at automata? Sometimes, the results of each of these methods vary wildly.

 

I have seen that bus use that is clearly visible in the path query of transit stations was not counted in the traffic graph. I have had transit stations with broken query windows which still showed high use in the path query. No idea without more info.

[jlt122 46]

You also have to remember that low wealth sims are the ones who use the buses. Wealthy sims won't take them.

[iEthereal 1]

I would like to know: How do you determine zero use? In the traffic graph? In the station query? In the path query? By looking at automata? Sometimes, the results of each of these methods vary wildly.

 

I have seen that bus use that is clearly visible in the path query of transit stations was not counted in the traffic graph. I have had transit stations with broken query windows which still showed high use in the path query. No idea without more info.

Hah! that's exactly what i was doing wrong! thank you!.

In the traffic graph i saw 0 bus use, but looking at each station i could see some sims were using it. Also, i have like 80% $$ and $$$ population so i guess it should be low usage anyway

Thank you all so much!

[Prophet42 1,501]

You also have to remember that low wealth sims are the ones who use the buses. Wealthy sims won't take them.

Actually wealthy Sims will take the bus.  They are just less likely to do so.  Wealthy sims will use bus transportation 1) if they can't find a job close enough to drive to, or 2) no other mass transit is available within a reasonable distance (like train or subway).  It is true that vast majority of bus users will be low and medium wealth Sims. 

[Cdesigner 8]

Hello all , i'm a newbie so please don't be offended if the question is just that idiotic but...

 

Idiotic questions does not exist, only idiotic answers