Increasing Public Transportation Usage Mods?

[HectiX]

I was wondering if there are any mods that increase the likelyhood the cims will use public transport. I have a city with 100k+ cims but only 5.5k are using public transportation weekly. I have decent coverage but my streets are still clogged with car traffic. Currently I have buses, metro, taxi's and an airport. Buses are the main source, totaling to around 4.5k a week. Stops are frequent but not too frequent. I would use "Free Transport" but I havent seen much of an increase. I would try coding a mod for this, but I don't know anything about it.

[MarkJohnson]

I highly discourage using mods to fix problems. It just masks the issue only to get even worse from using bad building practices. At that point it is usually futile to fix the city and much easier to start anew.

But search the workshop. I'm sure someone has done something similar. Google may be of use as well. but I haven't heard such a mod. although there are a lot of transportation mods that improve the gameplay.

[HectiX]

I have IPT already, but thats not helping much. I just want a way to increase the usage of public transport. Make it more likely the cims would use that over taking their car to work. I've searched Google and I havent had any luck

[Phoenix C64]

What You Talkin' Aboot? a écrit :

I have decent coverage but my streets are still clogged with car traffic.

public transport doesnt magically solve traffic problems. traffic problems are usually caused by bad road design.
i am not trying to diss you or anything, better design just comes with more experience playing the game.

if you want to upload your save to the steam cloud and share the link, i could take a look during my twitch stream this afternoon.

[Mario]

Try again free public transport and leave it on, it takes some time to apply

[hehehemann]

Have a look at http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=541673195

[hafan]

A screenshot or a simple plan of your city would be useful, but...
Indeed, troubles are mostly done by bad road design or just simple overusing one junction, which has capacity not high enough. Remember, that choosing PT over car is mostly question of time spent. So only what I can recomend is to build some kind of fast and capatitive system (most like german Stadtbahn - it's like trams, but faster and on segregated road, often elevated etc., so use trams too, but not the original one - try Siemens Avenio etc.). Stops of this tram-train system are distanced at least 50 units (100 better), with option to change to a bus which serve only close surrounding and cannot be used for direct routes from district A to district B. If you don't have trams, use buslanes (segregated bus roads - try Network Extension) and use buses with the highest capacity.
Use policy - Old Town is something very usefull when it comes to transit traffic.
Use different type of roads than default - where buses or trams are not used, change the roads to something only for city services and emergmencies. Traffic Manager will help you.
If your citizens are too lazy to use PT, force them. :-)

Dictatorship! Yayyyyyyy! :-)


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=777532361 - Example (in earlier phases of growing the city)

I forgot one thing: be prepared to demolish a significant number of buildigs to create such system. But it is worth it!

[NoirMoutton]

Nothing wrong with using mods- no right or wrong way to play- each to his own. Why abandon your city? Surely that is all part of the fun? Save a copy and develop a better version in a parallel universe! Fixing various problems as your city grows- just like real world problems- demolish areas improve your road network, reconfigure public transport- play the hell ot the game- stuff it full of amazing mods- make it as beautiful or as ugly as you like!

[HectiX]

Wow, thanks for all the feedback everyone. I will try the Resident Travel Rebalance mod suggested. I have used trams, but it seemed like it wasn't doing much. It always feels like the only really viable PT are the buses and metro's.

In terms of starting another city, I will most likely be doing that. However, I'll be holding onto this one. Largest city I've made actually, only 114k (I know that probably isnt much lol). I think my bad habit of trying to make the city look good is whats ruining my road design. I try to give a good balance in terms of junctions, but I always find I add either too much or too little.

Again, thanks for all the feedback. Hopefully I'll get a strategy that will work, thought I'd be better at this game with close to 200 hours, plus all the time on Simcity 4. Cheers!

[hafan]

What You Talkin' Aboot? a écrit :

I have used trams, but it seemed like it wasn't doing much. It always feels like the only really viable PT are the buses and metro's.

In terms of starting another city, I will most likely be doing that. However,

I think my bad habit of trying to make the city look good is whats ruining my road design. I try to give a good balance in terms of junctions, but I always find I add either too much or too little.

Ad1) Trams solves most of the troubles, if you make them fast and capatitive enough. Use some preference for them - preference on junctions, segregated of other traffic, elevated road, increase their speed by Traffic manager (by increasing the track's max speed). It's worth it, trust me. There is a question too, if you choose your prefered vehicle type (f.ex. Solaris Bus over the default ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one, Siemens tram over the default ####&Đ[#€ one etc...). Make the tracks nicely curved, not just turned right by 90° as the game allows you. Smooth nice tracks do a lot. :-)

Ad2) Don't give up! But, if you start a new city, I can recomend you to try MOM mod - Metro overhaul mod - it's damn fun working with metro then...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=816260433

Ad3) That's not bad habit, that's the best you can do. I do, myself, lots and lots of crazy junctions, road designs, transport terminals... Important is to think at least to the near future. Sure, the junctions won't be enough capatitive in some time, but that's the point - rebuild them, bypass them, overcome them, whatever. And I'm telling that as a transport engineer, so for me, it's like part of the job to do craziness! If you have any question or need of advice, feel free to write me a message, best with screenshot. :-)

Good luck, whatever solution you choose.

[Phoenix C64]

Just a note on trams: cims won't use trams when there is a bus line next to it going to the same destination.

I had nobody use the tram. Removed a few closeby bus stops and problem solved.