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The last bit of each side road (just the last bit - not all of it or you'll get issues) along the entry part of the spine are all one way pointing to the spine - so the traffic entering your district cannot make any turns and just keeps going straight up the spine. What you want is a central 'spine' through your distrct (a four lane road is best - particularly a bus one with most of your district's stops along it - but two lanes can work for smaller areas) and your heavy commerical at the bottom where traffic enters. Every district has either a bus or tram network that collects people and allows them to get to the district's metro or train station. I now have a district of over 40k population where all entry and exit is handle by a single road and it flows perfectly.

#Cities skylines traffic president tutorial trial

It took me a quite a bit of trial and error and a few abandoned cities before I figured things out. I only have nine stretches of road that are more than two lanes and didn't add any highways. The only queueing in my city is to get to the cargo terminals when that's not busy traffic is 92%.

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I have only five roundabouts in there plus four oval-abouts I made for each of my four cargo areas. It is possible - my city has 140k population and averages 89% traffic flow - zero mods. My tall buildings are mostly tourism commercial and high traffic leisure zones. Organic commercial gets even less traffic. High density doesn't really get you any more jobs. Same logic applies if you are using train/air/sea cargo hubs.Ĭommercial grids I would split up over the different district types and densities. Trucks come in from say the right exit off which ever street the factory they are going to is down a 1 way street that takes them directly back up the highway. IF you are doing an industrial zone I would have 1 way in coming from highway and 1 way out going to highway.

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But if you wanted say separate full industry or full commercial districts then it would require different logic. I tend to mix in small industrial and commerce in each of my big grid districts. But also residential, office, industrial, and commercial balance. I wouldn't really trust them if you aren't using TM E. Roundabouts don't really work at all the way they are suppose to in Vanilla either. Bus and trams work better on the larger streets where they have their own lines and don't halt all traffic behind them. Every time the bus pulls over it stops traffic. I would avoid bus and trams because it will do more harm then good on the small roads because of the bus stops. Using bicycles and metro will help things out a lot or even metros. And lots of exits/on ramps through the grid on all of the highways. Then its 2 highways that run north to south. So they have a northern highway that goes east to west and one southern highway that does the same thing on the bottom of the district grid. So I seperate my grid cities into big grid districts that are pretty much surrounded by highways in a square around the district.

I would recommend heavy highway usage as well. I can get to 250k+ population and still have 85%+ traffic flow. Then your entire city is like a fishing net or a mesh so traffic gets even distributed automatically because its same speed. The easiest thing to do in Vanilla especially for say grid cities think East Coast USA is to use all small 2 way roads every where and no other roads.

#Cities skylines traffic president tutorial how to

I promised screenshots, but I will do you one better a full video showing how to do what I wrote about and much more with no mods. I will put up some screenshots later, I don't have my traffic test city save on my home PC. But, If you use several off ramps instead of a 3 lane highway to connect to the other highway then they use all the lanes. Same thing when you have multiple highways to connect. You will now see that the vehicles will use more lanes on the main road. Then take the left connecting road into the main road on the left side and then a bit after that connect the right road to the main one on the right side. Making a jam.īut, if you take the main road, extend it back a little bit, leave that tail end not connected. If you make a 3 way intersection vehicles will come from those two roads and head for the same outer lane on the new road. Simple test you can watch yourself is when two roads are connected to one road. You have to force the traffic onto lanes that are logical for us the players but not for the vehicle AI.

To answer the OP, it is possible, but it's really ugly, clunky and time consuming.Ģ8rommel and Teldaril have given you the main answer.