I know that Cims choiches of paths can be weird. This topic is not to complain (well, not too much), but just to share and hear other strange tales from the community, just for laughs.
I start with the poorest choice of lines I've ever seen so far.
I made a small diagram so that you can follow more easily; the map is East City, the location between the end of the long peninsula and the shouthern neighborhood:
First, one note. Since all my metro lines are quite long and go from one side of the map to the other, and since I am fixated with regular services starting from both ends of a line, I made an experiment: all the lines you see are actually all pairs of lines that follow the same path and stop at the same stations, one starting from the north and the other from the south. Let's call them service A and service B. I know that's not the best solution because Cims get confused, I just wanted to try. This is the strangest choice of interchanges I've ever seen even with this peculiar conditions. I swear I'm not making this up.
So, it's 11:30 P.M. One Cim leaves the pub to go back home, which is near station 7; he takes the bus and reaches station 1 on time, after half an hour. He chooses the right platform, the one of the blue line going south, and chooses the service wisely (or luckily), because he wants a blue line B train, and it arrives moments after he walked in the station. It seems that he's going to be at home quickly, good for him.
Things, however, start to go wrong after just one stop: at station 2 he chooses to change for the red line. He's not as lucky as before with the choice of the line, because he wants a red line B train, instead the first one is an A train, so he skips it. He waits, takes his train, travel to station 3, gets off and sets to wait for an A train, despite he just skipped one minutes ago. An even poorer choice if you consider that it's now past midnight, night trains run only every hour, so he has to wait a lot. Finally the train arrives. He takes it, and gets off again at station 4, to take the silver line. I though that maybe there was some method to his madness, because the silver line has a really good interchange with a bus at station 5 and the bus stop at 7 is closer to his home than the metro station; the blue line has an interchange with the same bus line too, but it requires some walk, so it's not as good. Maybe he was going for the bus all along and he only had a moment of confusion with the red line downtown.
He skips a silver line A train, waits for the B, but rides it all the way to 6 to take the blue line again. To add insult to injury, it's again a blue line B train, like the one he was riding at the beginning of his journey.
End result: he arrived home at 2:30 A.M., three hours for a seven metro stations trip; his original blue line train arrived at 7 a little more than 30 minuts past midnight. No wonder my graphs show that the average commute time is between three and four hours.
I start with the poorest choice of lines I've ever seen so far.
I made a small diagram so that you can follow more easily; the map is East City, the location between the end of the long peninsula and the shouthern neighborhood:
First, one note. Since all my metro lines are quite long and go from one side of the map to the other, and since I am fixated with regular services starting from both ends of a line, I made an experiment: all the lines you see are actually all pairs of lines that follow the same path and stop at the same stations, one starting from the north and the other from the south. Let's call them service A and service B. I know that's not the best solution because Cims get confused, I just wanted to try. This is the strangest choice of interchanges I've ever seen even with this peculiar conditions. I swear I'm not making this up.
So, it's 11:30 P.M. One Cim leaves the pub to go back home, which is near station 7; he takes the bus and reaches station 1 on time, after half an hour. He chooses the right platform, the one of the blue line going south, and chooses the service wisely (or luckily), because he wants a blue line B train, and it arrives moments after he walked in the station. It seems that he's going to be at home quickly, good for him.
Things, however, start to go wrong after just one stop: at station 2 he chooses to change for the red line. He's not as lucky as before with the choice of the line, because he wants a red line B train, instead the first one is an A train, so he skips it. He waits, takes his train, travel to station 3, gets off and sets to wait for an A train, despite he just skipped one minutes ago. An even poorer choice if you consider that it's now past midnight, night trains run only every hour, so he has to wait a lot. Finally the train arrives. He takes it, and gets off again at station 4, to take the silver line. I though that maybe there was some method to his madness, because the silver line has a really good interchange with a bus at station 5 and the bus stop at 7 is closer to his home than the metro station; the blue line has an interchange with the same bus line too, but it requires some walk, so it's not as good. Maybe he was going for the bus all along and he only had a moment of confusion with the red line downtown.
He skips a silver line A train, waits for the B, but rides it all the way to 6 to take the blue line again. To add insult to injury, it's again a blue line B train, like the one he was riding at the beginning of his journey.
End result: he arrived home at 2:30 A.M., three hours for a seven metro stations trip; his original blue line train arrived at 7 a little more than 30 minuts past midnight. No wonder my graphs show that the average commute time is between three and four hours.
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) I'm not an expert but I bet algorithms used in various transit apps such as hop stop or google transit are not THAT complicated and could be implemented here. I think they should make CIMs take the quickest route possible and not allow them to go around town like crazy.
