Tips & Tricks - SC4 Route Queries (MAXIS)

Use your route query to find where the largest traffic arteries. Upgrade those segments with higher capacity thoroughfares like streets to roads, roads to avenues, and avenues to highways.

You can also use the route query to decide the best placement for mass transit stations, such as buses and train stations. By clicking on businesses you can see where the commuters are coming from. If you can find pockets of commuters coming from a common residential area and going to a common business district, place your mass transit stations in the middle of the residential and destination (business) pockets.

If a station is not being used to its fullest potential, click on the buildings surrounding the station to see where their routes go. By placing a companion station at the end of the routes, you can increase the usage of the original station.

When you load your cities from the original SimCity 4, it will take a couple months of simulation time before you'll have access to the route query data.