How to avoid traffic jams?

[wheelerxx]

I'm currently running a game around year 2000. Between city A and B I have a road required for delivery of some goods to both cities from a location between them. I also run a bus service between these two cities on the road. Now the road is jammed with private cars. What is the best way to avoid this traffic jam?

[larry_roberts]

The best way to avoid traffic jams is through more and better public transport (trains for the most part), also don't allow your cities (when starting a new map) get too big.

[Dirkels]

Upgrade the roads to at least 4 lane ones and give them bus lanes. Those roads allow higher speeds and bus lanes will only be used by your busses and trucks, so even if there is traffic jam your vehicles can drive by them.
Note: private cars sometimes do use bus lanes but that is mostly to reach there destination building in the cities.

[RadiKyle]

Hi, also ideas here (and many other threads too)
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/discussions/0/6252726091242884477/

[Eddi]

in my game, the only places that had traffic jams were towns which weren't fully covered by public transport (local busses/trams bringing people to the main station)

[Tsubame ⭐]

Improve public transport lines would be the logical choice, but you can also improve the roads themselves by adding lanes and improving road layout - i.e. road hierarchy, bypasses, elevated roads, etc.

[wheelerxx]

Thx a lot for the inputs. I tried upgrading the road to multilane and added bus lane as well. That resolved the issue when it comes to bus and trucks, but not for the general traffic.

[wheelerxx]

I also started to play around with one-way streets in the city to see if that can distribute the traffic better (Almost like in real life ;-))