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Hello

I've been playing TTD for some time and I find it very amusing. I almost only do passengers and railway since I find them most entertaining. My tactic is basically a large train station at each city, combined with a lot of buses to haul transfers from the inner city parts out to the railway station. I've attached a picture of what it usually looks like.

However, I've started to run into problems, simply that it requires too many buses. The amount of buses becomes ridiculous as the city grows, and they cannot keep up. If you look at the picture you can see that the ten or so bus stops by the railway station is clogged up.

Does anyone have any advice on how to solve this logistics problem? Maybe something completely else with several railway stations? The amount of road vehicles would still become ridiculous probably..

Anyway, advices or examples appreciated!

Cheers

I am happy when I see the profit of the train,

I think trams could help you out (I think they can carry more passengers). Or else try it with a timetable so they don't arrive at the stops at the same time.

In real life, a city as big as yours would also have problems transporting all those passengers via only busses. They'd build a tram line or a subway (the latter not being available for TTD), so maybe you should consider something like that. You could also do a metro or light railway line around the city, connecting the train station on one end to the other end (there are train sets with the appropriate engines / coaches, and DMTs / EMTs).

I run my cities exactly the same way and inevitably run into the same problems.

I will:

Use drive through stops for bus's.

Build as many stations as possible to spread load.

Have trains on edge to again spread load.

Use a big airport to take load of bus's.

TRAMS!!!!!!

aahz77 wrote:In real life, a city as big as yours would also have problems transporting all those passengers via only busses...

As big as thirty thousand? That's about the size of my home-town, and there are more than enough buses.
( http://www08.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chippenham )

SkeedR wrote:

aahz77 wrote:In real life, a city as big as yours would also have problems transporting all those passengers via only busses...

As big as thirty thousand? That's about the size of my home-town, and there are more than enough buses.
( http://www08.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chippenham )

The town sizes in TTD don't match real-life town sizes. A small village (let's say, 1K people) with a few passengers every day is represented in TTD with a village of ~100 people (a bus station in such a village provides a comparable amount of passengers within a month). Note that the comparison is not linear: A big TTD city like kanelbulle's with nearly 40K people produces more than enough passengers to fuel several big trains at a central station AND a complete bus/tram network within the city, which in real life is only the case for cities with 1M+ citizens.