Harbour access road

[emiliajane71]

the traffic to the harbour is almost immediately too much for a 2 way road yet I can't see how to upgrade it ? the immediate road that is attached to it I mean

[Mansen]

You don't - You use one-way roads on both sides of the piece to make traffic as smooth as you could ever hope to. Trucks still gotta drive in and out after all.

[Horza2002]

This is one thing I would really like to see changed. I would much prefer to have an entrance site and and exit site for the harbour/train station than having that little bit of two way road.

[emiliajane71]

thank you - thats what I have been doing

[Red]

it's a very werid design choice. same as trains.

[emiliajane71]

yeah !

[Blake Walsh]

When it comes to turning into the harbor road capacity is irrelevant, the limit is entirely in how quickly vehicles can turn into the loading bay. A single lane on a small road probably has 2-4x the capacity of what the loading bay can handle.

The only thing an additional lane could do is allow traffic to bypass the entrance - however traffic is mega dumb about using multiple lanes on the same road. A bypass lane has to be faster to pull traffic away.
The ideal cargo harbor setup looks like this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=596667839

It is hooked up to a 1-way system with a long buffer (buffers are very important), it has a bypass ramp wrapped alongside the cargo harbor road for any traffic which is just passing through. Works great.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by Blake Walsh:

When it comes to turning into the harbor road capacity is irrelevant, the limit is entirely in how quickly vehicles can turn into the loading bay. A single lane on a small road probably has 2-4x the capacity of what the loading bay can handle.

The only thing an additional lane could do is allow traffic to bypass the entrance - however traffic is mega dumb about using multiple lanes on the same road. A bypass lane has to be faster to pull traffic away.
The ideal cargo harbor setup looks like this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=596667839

It is hooked up to a 1-way system with a long buffer (buffers are very important), it has a bypass ramp wrapped alongside the cargo harbor road for any traffic which is just passing through. Works great.

For me, the best form of buffer is the traffic sponge. I love them, they soak up tons of traffic and spread the load perfectly. I don't worry about bypassing the access road since the only vehicles not using it are the couple of service vehicles the harbour requires.
Here're are a couple of examples of sponges. In the background is one of the Workshop premade sponges and in the foreground a custom sponge I made because space was limited ;)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=452992699
(Yes, I know these are cargo terminals and not harbours but the principle is the same, just couldn't find a screenshot using a harbour lol)