Need Real good traffic control

[tlhman7]

Traffic...the big problem for many. What is a good traffic control to subscribe to? Seems to me we need a yield and control over the lanes. Does a car or truck have its mind set on going only one way. If I could just tell them, take the other lane or take a different street. Any comments on traffic control?

[Mr. Monday]

The linked mod can help with some of the traffic issues. It won't help with all of them though. No matter what traffic managing mod you use if you don't provide multiple options into or out of an area you're still going to get tailbacks full of vehicles wanting to turn at some point. Biffa has dozens of YouTube videos of him fixing other peoples' traffic that are good to watch. He uses TMPE a lot. There are also videos of people claiming to do the same, but without any mods (I haven't actually watched any of them though). Personally I like to use TMPE, because of the additional traffic controls, but I have been slowly weaning myself off of it so I don't need to use it as much as I currently do.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1637663252&searchtext=traffic+manager

[Detective Dan]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812125426&searchtext=network+extensions

This mod also pairs really well with TMPE

[Mr. Monday]

Oh yeah, I should have included that one too.

[Avanya]

For traffic it's also important to understand, that vehicles always take the fastest route to their destination, and that they don't pay attention to traffic. They work kinda like if you have a GPS or Google Maps calculate a route for you to take - they don't see other cars and only change lanes when they need to make turns (or avoid turn lanes).

[caseyas435943]

Avanya your Cims sure drive different than mine. Mine sometimes will chance lanes every node. They will dead stop on the highway so they can back traffic up stopping 2 or 3 lanes of traffic at a node to change lanes. Then the very next node they do it again to get back in the same lane they were just in. Even better some cars will do this across the whole map. It's like they are designed to make sure they stop traffic.

That always amazes me.

[Avanya]

Originally posted by caseyas435943:

Avanya your Cims sure drive different than mine. Mine sometimes will chance lanes every node. They will dead stop on the highway so they can back traffic up stopping 2 or 3 lanes of traffic at a node to change lanes. Then the very next node they do it again to get back in the same lane they were just in. Even better some cars will do this across the whole map. It's like they are designed to make sure they stop traffic.

That always amazes me.

That does not sound normal - at least not unless there's a turn lane, which they are avoiding. If you have weird unexplained behaviour like that, the best thing is to post about it here with screenshots. It might be mod related if you use mods, or it might be something about the road setup. But it sounds like something that should be solved.

[Streeto]

I sometimes get cims stopping in the road to work out where to park (it says this in the box if I click on them)... I think it may be related to the Advanced Parking AI I have enabled (or whatever it's called).

[caseyas435943]

Now I'm not saying you are wrong by any means. But you should watch the traffic.

I've went to the very start the edges of the map. Zero on or off ramps. They mash into each other. Run each other over. The inside lane will try a merge with the middle lane at the exact node the outside lane will try an merge to the middle lane. This stops all 3 lanes.

The AI in the game can be controlled most of the time. But it doesn't make it not terrible AI.

A car can have 10 nodes to get in the lane it needs to exit. And at each node that car starts diving across lanes causing backups. And it will do it almost every node. And like I said it will end up in the same lane it started. That was no need to ever change lanes other than to cause a track jam.

This of course isn't every car. But like they old saying goes, "it only takes one."

Yes I know why the Devs put nodes in the game. It gives the cars a place to change to the lane they need to exit or enter something. But they've over done it and cars will change without reason just so the traffic looks like it's alive so to speak.

You don't change lanes in real life every 1/10 of a mile because there is a so called node. But in City Skylines it exactly what a lot of the traffic does. It changes just to change and for no reason other that there is a node it can change at. All for the right to end up where it started before it even changed 1 time.

Yes when your traffic is good +80% all this lane diving doesn't matter. But in heavier traffic it can and will stop all the lanes causing traffic jams.