Traffic Help?

[ZakTheSimmer]

You'd think, after playing since release, 1000+ hours and all dlc I would be able to build a city. And as I do with ma terrible OCD I build an amazing campus that crumble under the weight of 4000 commuters.. stupid rush hour mod. Making my citizens tell time. So, where I can move my university to a new area not a stupid way in from my highway and requiring my citizens to cut through downtown to achieve the fastest route and build a new campus, I can't build something that won't break traffic wise and do mass transit. Just do anything with mass transit. I will just spend the time thinking how I managed to get brilliant traffic anywhere else but here and continue building a terrible highway exit..

 

[jlade]

Try with Move It! by SamSamTS (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=766190099&searchtext=move+it). It should have a marque tool so you can select multiple things and then just move them.

 

[ZakTheSimmer]

Thanks jlade! That helped with moving the rest of the campus but I kind of need some ideas for a better highway exit than the one in my campus picture.

 

[ristosal]

Screenshot from a larger area would help as I have trouble figuring out the whole situation. I can question one thing though... when you leave that place, is there a possibility to turn left?

 

[ZakTheSimmer]

Yes. I can fetch a larger image.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

when you leave that place, is there a possibility to turn left?

There doesn't appear to be.

Yes. I can fetch a larger image.

One issue appears to be too many highway connections too close together. The traffic are all staying to the left until they pass the last on-ramp (the one curving in under the rail tracks), then moving right to get off. Doesn't help if anyone is going past there, though it doesn't look like many are. I am sure there is more to it than that. If there was some way for the destination to handle arriving traffic better, that would likely help, as it is backed up all the way from the destination to the highway.

 

[ristosal]

One issue appears to be too many highway connections too close together. The traffic are all staying to the left until they pass the last on-ramp (the one curving in under the rail tracks), then moving right to get off.

An earlier two-lane interchange may force traffic to take the inside lane, otherwise I'd anticipate them to be one step outside. This logic chain can go quite a way back.

The situation makes me wonder if the campus is just a relatively long distance away from everything else right now, so that would be the fastest route for too many drivers. There's lots of area around that hasn't been built yet.

 

[28rommel]

The situation makes me wonder if the campus is just a relatively long distance away from everything else right now, so that would be the fastest route for too many drivers. There's lots of area around that hasn't been built yet.

Agree.
I looks like the University is too isolated (far) from your residential, so the only way in is to drive there.
I have my University in a concentrated area of heavy residential housing, and I don't have any issues with traffic. Actually, from watching the students come and go in my game, the vast majority (or at least half) of them seem to walk to and from school.
Always remember to build pedestrian pathways to link up one area to another adjacent area, and so on and so forth. My people love to walk in my game, and this alleviates the amount of overall traffic, everywhere.

 

[ZakTheSimmer]

My university is very far away but I thought that was how you placed them as when I place universities in the commuter traffic mixes with the uni traffic in the mornings and clogs up the surface roads. I kind of thought they would use some of the mass transit.

 

[Promethian]

They should be willing to use mass transit and I see you have a train stop. However I don't know if you have a clear pedestrian walking path from the train stop to the entrance of the uni. The walkers need to enter at the spot your cars are all driving to. You might be able to fix it by getting a clear walking path from that train stop to the entrance. They also might be using the train but if you are using rush hour the capacity might be overtaxed and you need to add another mass transit method like Metro.

Another thing to remember is only people in walking distance of train stops in other places will be able to take the train to uni. I've tried using trains for mass transit but have found it too clunky for this reason (great for industrial transport tho).

 

[ZakTheSimmer]

I think I'm starting to get what's going on the way I'm reading your thing, Promethian is that if they have to ride bus / drive car to get to a train station they will just drive all the way which is really obvious and I don't see why my mass transit skills are so bad.. Do you know if they will change train lines because I need them to do that with my 4 track station thing I have.

 

[ristosal]

Do you know if they will change train lines because I need them to do that with my 4 track station thing I have.

Yes. The way I understand is they change between any forms of public transport twice per trip to reach their destination. I don't need trains often, but when I use them I make sure I have bus stops next to train stations.