How to increase Mass Transit use

[Digihuman]

Something that bothers me, even in really high-density cities of mine, only about 10% of the Cims use my public transport. It's weird, I offer it for free, I connect all the RCI with it, and they STILL use the road. I once put a road bridge across a river to the commercial part of my city (previously only accessible by ferry, train, and subway) and the remaining 90% of my city clogged up the roads crossing it instead of taking the trains, monorails, blimps, and metro.

[grapplehoeker]

If you want more use of public transport then apply it in a way to maximise that usage.
If you have an isolated district, then you're already halfway there.
Remove all road access to it, but instead of connecting 3 different types of mass transit, apply some synchronous logistics instead.
Create chains of different transport types to reach distant locations.
Buses from residential > metro > ferry or blimp or rail or monorail

Use one method to reach the isolated district and only expand to different options if and when that one type can no longer handle the passenger volumes.

[Digihuman]

I see.

Also, there's a teeny issue with the lack of road connections - the Industrial and Commercial districts need stuff from the Highway, but if I give them highway connections, the Residential area starts using the highway.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Digihuman:

I see.

Also, there's a teeny issue with the lack of road connections - the Industrial and Commercial districts need stuff from the Highway, but if I give them highway connections, the Residential area starts using the highway.

Residential needs a means to enter or leave the city and both industry and commercial need a means to send and receive imports and exports.
At the start of a city that isn't a difficult problem, as long as you seperate the different zones appropriately. Here's a very basic method that works well at the start.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933343876
I wouldn't zone anything along this triangle as this will be the main artery for all traffic. Rather I would branch off the arterial and apply similar rules of hierarchy as explained in this excellent guide,
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=522776740
I hope that helps ;)

[kucing kampung]

1.make it free
2.increase tax of resident (they will think to save money)
3.put green zone away from blue zone or industrial zone , aproximately 5 km
so they will think to use mass transit