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[TIP] Distancing busses

A recurrent issue on the forum was the distancing of busses, which tend to queue and travel in groups.
This is a solution i briefly tested:



Add at one (or both) ends of the line a side branch with a streetlight.
Manually set the green time for getting out to 1 and a waypoint to that branch: busses will leave at a given interval of time, avoiding grouping.  8)

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Reply #1 –
Can I have that for ships, too, please  ;D

More seriously, that is a very useful invention. Thanks for publishing the tip :)

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Reply #2 –
Aww, I didn't think of this use for it. I'd come up with this basic idea - put in front of undesea tunnels to sort of simulate Chunnel-like delays...

I won't post a screenshot, but here's something you can do to streamline it slightly: If you build an intersection, place a stoplight - you can then remove the other roads, and are left with a two-way light (i.e. it stops or lets traffic through on your road).

I hadn't thought of using it to increase the distance of busses - but that's a brilliant idea.

Maybe we could allow stoplights to be built on regular roads? Or at least exploit this "bug" for this purpose. :)

Hajo: If you can talk Prissi into allowing elevated ways on water, I will back you up on ship traffic lights (because I'd like that too)... :D

(only, would that work? Wouldn't all the ships queue on one tile, and then when the light turned green, all ships proceed?)

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Reply #3 –
I hadn't thought of this, but that's a brilliant idea. :D

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Reply #4 –
A stoplight works also on a straight road, after deletion of the branch ...

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Reply #5 –
Ah, Prissi, late to the party:

Quote from: Isaac.Eiland-Hall – on
I won't post a screenshot, but here's something you can do to streamline it slightly: If you build an intersection, place a stoplight - you can then remove the other roads, and are left with a two-way light (i.e. it stops or lets traffic through on your road).

And I came back to post a screenshot:

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Reply #7 –
Please keep in mind that the timing infrmation of the trafficlights is not stored in the savegame yet. But it should happen soon.
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and maggikraut.

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Reply #8 –
May I ask, how do u click on traffic lights/signs to make them showing their settings? They simply arent clickable for me.
Also as offtopic I'd like to ask how to rotate signs.
 

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Reply #10 –
I've always used the load percent switch for distancing buses: I set it up at several/all stops in the schedule with a wait time of 1/64 month or 1/128, depending on the desired distance. The load percentage also goes from 50% to 100% depending on the route density. That way, if a bus gets too close to another usually the first one takes all the p****engers leaving nothing for the second one, so the second will wait at all stops that have been set up increasing progressively the distance to a good one. It takes some more work than a traffic light, but works very well for me.