No passenger at the airport

[akk]

I have two cities "connected" by the airport. I created line in each of them to the aiport and town centre, however after waiting like 5 years, I haven't seen single passenger. Am I missing something?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1985709204
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1985708864

No issues with trains and goods, just the airports with people don't work for me :(

[Autocoach]

Check that the bus stops are actually in range of the airports , click on the stop does the airport highlight . Are buses running and are planes running ?

[akk]

Yeah, the two lines I screenshoted have 1 bus each. There is ocassional travel on the bus, but never on the plane (which is flying empty).

Could it be bug? I built cargo airport first and then added passanger module, I will try connecting other cities with passanger aiport directly and see.

[akk]

Yeah, I have built other airport for passengers, nothing different, and this one has passengers, dont understand the first one though :D

[Molybdane]

Looks good, and since the busses only go to the airports, you must have had a very small amount of passengers already.

All I can think of at this stage is that the busses stop in the same type of zone, i.e. residential, commercial or industrial. That means that the airports have access to passengers or destinations for the passengers, but not both. This seems unlikely though, usually tha catchment area for busses is large enough to include more than one type of building.

[Tarazed]

Are the passengers travelling between the towns by another route? It's difficult to see just from the screenshots. You can check by going to the Destinations tab on the town information panel and checking the numbers listed there for the town at the other end of your air line. Also the Destinations Layer (one of the buttons on the top-left drop down) will show you how many people want to travel down a certain road or other transport line.

Also note that if a passenger has a choice of routes, they will prefer to take the one that involves the fewest interchanges. Looking at the screenshots, to travel from a building in one town to a building in another, a worst case is walk to tram stop, tram to the bus stop, bus to the airport, plane to the other town, bus to a tram stop then a tram to the destination. All that may be putting them off going that way, they may be catching a train or driving instead.

So I'd try to simplify this, by removing the bus lines between each town and the airports. Instead I'd extend the existing local tram route to also stop at the airport. That way any passenger can get to the airport directly from their nearest tram stop. See whether that makes any difference.

[yanico]

I also got empty planes only, at the beginning. I guess that the need and urge for some connections must be given first. As well U need quie a number of potential passengers of whom one or the other have enogh cash to deside to take a plane instead of some other option...

[akk]

Thank you very much for the responses :) they made sense I will try tomorrow!

On a side note, is there nice page / manual explaining what the destination number means?Thanks for pointing it out, I had 6 on my street, but what does it mean? People have 6 possible destinations? What does this information give me? Shows good place for stop?

To be honest I always build couple of stops, just to have all my city covered, not sure what the numbers mean :(.

[Tarazed]

The numbers on the street in the destinations layer show the number of passengers that will travel down that street (in either direction) to get to where they want to go. If it's blue, they will walk or take their cart/car. If it's green, you've already got a passenger line going that way and they will want to use that. The higher the number, the more people need to go that way.

In your example, with the overlay on, you can check your aeroplane line which will be green to see what the demand is. If there are numbers on the line but no-one waiting, it means that people do want to get on your planes, they just haven't got to the airport yet. If there aren't, no-one wants to go to the other town(s) on your air route. You can then use the overlay to see where they are going, i.e. they could be taking a train, or going to closer towns instead.