What is the NAM Trafic Controller?

[Eusebio Ptolomeu 24]

So, I've downloaded NAM and installed it successfully in my computer, however I would like to know what the "Network Addon Mod Controller", the last item in the Build Highways and Ramps section. It looks like some kind of plopabel object, but I can't place it, wherever I try. Is it just to show the current version of my NAM?

[matias93 7,535]

It's just a placeholder on the menu, but it represents the system that calculates the routes sims take to go to their workplaces.b

[Tarkus 6,935]

To further add to it from the NAM Team side, it is indeed a placeholder that is more intended to show information about one's NAM installation.  The info shown does not pertain to the Traffic Simulator, but to the NAM Controller, which is a file containing the three main multi-network RUL files (RUL0, RUL1, and RUL2).  It is essentially the "brain" of the vast majority of the added network features the mod includes, in combination with the Individual Network RULs file, and the Bridge Controller.

In the days before the Controller Compiler (which originated in NAM 32), it was a useful diagnostic tool for issues created by Controller conflicts.  Nowadays, it's not of quite as much utility, since Controller files are compiled on the fly, rather than being already packaged as they were in earlier versions of the NAM.

-Tarkus