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I am currently interested in designing and testing a few components for the game. I really enjoy transportation planning and what I would like to make are the following items: Transportation Related 1. Express E-Z Pass Electronic Toll Collection facility that gathers toll information from transponders, loops, and built-in scales on the road. It records the toll at highway speed and results in little to no congestion on the tollway. A modified version could be also be used on avenues or roads instead of highways, but again, I haven't decided if I would make one of them or limit it to regular highways only. A form of open-road tolling. 2. Continuous Flow Intersection For Ave-Ave intersections with 2 or 4 legs -- I haven't decided that part. A full discussion with images, samples, and Google Earth links of CFI intersections is here: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=81851 Public Safety 1. Volunteer Fire and Life Safety Department (Fire/EMS) or just a Volunteer FD if EMS is pointless.... I wonder if providing ambulance only coverage to part of a city would result in health care from an under-utilized, but nearby (but out of area) hospital/medical clinic. I understand that the images have to be made to offer up to 5 levels of zoom. But where do I start to describe these facilities, their properties and how they affect the city. I also know that the Fire Department should be designed in BAT. But, what about the road pieces for an EZ-Pass or CFI?

http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/oneway.htm That's on the Garden State Parkway. The New Jersey Turnpike has an Express entry point and I believe they are working on an Express exit, too. But other NJ Turnpike Toll Plaza's are on exits, only. The GSP has mainline toll booth plaza's as well as entrance and exit toll booths. On the GSP the only express toll booths are on that link: they are always main-line toll plazas. In other words, toll plaza's built into the middle of the highway. But the 407 ETR uses the same technology and same idea: so that's fine with me! So which do I download for the STEX / 407 ETR Tolling System? "Toll Booth Booster V2.0 "??

Oh for the Toll Booth did you mean Toll Booth Booster V2.0 ?? Or is there another option out there? I haven't tried that Booster, yet. Is everything on STEX available for download piece meal from the Moddds & Downloads section?

Cool, thanks, I'll look for the E-Z Pass

Okay, let's say I wanted to attempt this. For SimCity where do I begin? Isn't BAT for buildings?

There are 2 in Maryland, 1 in Baton Rouge, LA, 1 on Long Island, NY, and a bunch in Mexico. So, I'm sure we can find some actualy CFI users if we look hard enough. http://www.dotd.state.la.us/press/pressrelease.asp?nRelease=627 They improved the intersection time from an average delay of 225 seconds per car when it was a regular 4-way intersection with probably 4 phases (2 for through movements and 2 for protected left turns) to only 30 seconds!! That's a huge design improvement.

Exactly like the one on Airline Hwy in Baton Rouge...but what if we had micro-bridges at spot #2 so that there is no stop-light there. The demo animation shows the traffic light placement at #2 or the sample information here: http://www.abmb.com/cfi-testdrive.html

Can somone design a continuous flow intersection, please. I just discovered this and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sliced bread being invented last year j/k... They offer nearly the same traffic handling of the traditional cloverleaf, are much cheaper to build and maintain, and importantly consume much less land. All very important things. An avenue-avenue 4-way or 3-way intersection is a prime candidate for such an intersection. Here is some additional information: After some discussion on the ST forums, but on the wrong topic sections, I think most players (and me, too) would like to have a ramp or micro-bridge at point #2 instead of holding cross traffic with a light. That would even allow for more traffic handling for ave-ave intersections. However, the micro-bridge solution would mean a wider median nearer to the actual intersection to allow for the climb up and over the on-coming lanes. Either way the CFI with or without ramps is probably the most effecient and compact (for land-use) intersection, possible. From States Go Global for Road-Safety ideas http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=138586 If you would like to see a flash animation from ABMB Engineering showing all the movements: http://www.abmb.com/cfi-cfi-demo.html Or visit ABMB Engineering the company that designed the CFI in Baton Rouge, LA. There are also CFI's in Maryland, too. Check Wikipedia for additional information, please. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_flow_intersection