Intersections using 3 lane one way roads

[Adamu08 1]

Hi All,

I am trying to build a 6 lane network to work like an avenue with trees in the middle to act as a filler. I built one section of 3 lane one way roads, then one square gap to fill in using a park filler plugin, and then another 3 lane one way going the other way.

You can see the issue is there are no traffic lights parallel with the one way lanes. 

While traffic on the roads and avenues will stop at a red light, if there is a green light, the traffic on the 3 lane roads still continues so accidents ensue.

The only solution I have is to convert the one way roads into just one 6 lane avenue. However, there is an ugly gap dividing the 6 lanes that I cannot fill.

Your suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated.

[Tarkus 6,931]

The lack of traffic signals on the 3-lane One-Way Roads (OWR-3) is intentional.  You'll notice the game's default One-Way Roads also lack traffic signals on their approaches to intersections.  This is because of how the One-Way Road network was programmed, with its "Tidal Flow" system of allowing the user to reverse the direction of the network.  It does not support the use of "stop points"--coordinates in a network tile's path file that tell the automata where to stop in the event of encountering a signal, stop sign, or railroad crossing gate.  Because the stop points don't work, traffic signals don't work, and are permanently stuck on green on any OWR-based approach.

Additionally, the underlying network itself is actually programmed just like a regular Road, on the RUL end (the code that handles network placement), and the Tidal Flow exists as an .exe-controlled layer on top.  Because of this, there's actually no way for the RUL end to actually tell which direction the One-Way Road is going, so even if the stop points did work, it'd be practically impossible to ensure the signals were facing the right way.

We do actually have a workaround for this in the NAM--the One-Way Road Signalization and Turn Arrow Project (SiTAP), which uses some trickery involving OWR/Road transitions in order to allow for signalization (instructions for this can be found here ), but at the present time, SiTAP functionality is limited to the base 2-lane One-Way Road.  The various other widths of One-Way Road that are added by the NAM do not yet have SiTAP abilities, though there has been some work done on that, and it is planned as a feature for a future release.

With regards to the AVE-6 network, there are cosmetic mods out there that add medians to it, which would address your main concern with that network.

-Tarkus

[Adamu08 1]

3 hours ago, Tarkus said:

The lack of traffic signals on the 3-lane One-Way Roads (OWR-3) is intentional.  You'll notice the game's default One-Way Roads also lack traffic signals on their approaches to intersections.  This is because of how the One-Way Road network was programmed, with its "Tidal Flow" system of allowing the user to reverse the direction of the network.  It does not support the use of "stop points"--coordinates in a network tile's path file that tell the automata where to stop in the event of encountering a signal, stop sign, or railroad crossing gate.  Because the stop points don't work, traffic signals don't work, and are permanently stuck on green on any OWR-based approach.

Additionally, the underlying network itself is actually programmed just like a regular Road, on the RUL end (the code that handles network placement), and the Tidal Flow exists as an .exe-controlled layer on top.  Because of this, there's actually no way for the RUL end to actually tell which direction the One-Way Road is going, so even if the stop points did work, it'd be practically impossible to ensure the signals were facing the right way.

We do actually have a workaround for this in the NAM--the One-Way Road Signalization and Turn Arrow Project (SiTAP), which uses some trickery involving OWR/Road transitions in order to allow for signalization (instructions for this can be found here ), but at the present time, SiTAP functionality is limited to the base 2-lane One-Way Road.  The various other widths of One-Way Road that are added by the NAM do not yet have SiTAP abilities, though there has been some work done on that, and it is planned as a feature for a future release.

With regards to the AVE-6 network, there are cosmetic mods out there that add medians to it, which would address your main concern with that network.

-Tarkus

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll use those cosmedic mods and switch them to an avenue.