Bus Depots?

[Vitszy]

So.. how many bus depots does one need? There's no indication of how many buses one depot puts out. Can you just have one depot and have it cover all your bus lines? Or do you need a certain # of them per population?

[Tarot1970]

My city has a population of more than 55000, with about 50 bus lines, 200 buses on the road and 3000 riders each week.

And one depot seems to be sufficient.

[gordon.r.horne]

Did some counting to reply.

Currently I have a population of ~104k. At least 35 bus lines (I counted manually, couldn't find a summary screen) with a total of 277 buses that transport 5200+ citizens per week. I only have one bus depot.

The number of buses per line seems to be determined by length and not ridership. Mine range from 22 on a line connecting a distant suburb along a stretch of highway not within my owned tiles to 4 for a couple of short loops. The average number of riders per bus ranges from 8 (on the long suburb route with the most buses) to 37 (don't know how it's over 30) with an average of 20. The average number of riders per bus does no correlate at all to the number of buses on a route.

The budget panel says "The bigger the budget, the more buses are available in the city." But it's systemwide. There's no way to increase the number of buses on a heavily used route or reduce them on an underused route.

[Vitszy]

Thanks for the info Gordon, that's some good insight. Although seems like a somewhat broken system, could definitely use some improvements. Hope they make it a little more logical.

[GIJeff]

it drives me CRAZY that capacity in citybuiding games is not ever clear for mass transit

[Doof]

Still find it funny most of the time the depot vomits out 5 buses in a conga line for 1 route. You'd think they'd spread them out a bit.

[Spooky]

This game is not for mass transit. Play City in Motion instead. ;)

[BLÀde]

1 have 1 depot and 1 route throughout my whole city. when i add new areas i edit the route to add stops into the new areas.

[GIJeff]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BLÀde:

1 have 1 depot and 1 route throughout my whole city. when i add new areas i edit the route to add stops into the new areas.

one route for a whole city would be terribly inefficient unless the city is tiny

[NoirMoutton]

I usually split bus routes between two bus depots and one bus station in a large city. The bus station is usually adjacant to the main railway station, creating a transport hub. In my largest cities with a major international airport I also place a bus station next to the airport terminal. Works for me

[Phoenix C64]

Bus depots are important if you have a different budget for night and day, as they will have to travel back to their assigned depot and spawn again later.

550K city. 30+ districts. Every major district has own bus and taxi depot, bus station and at least 1 train station (some have 4)

My bus lines never leave their original district except 2* inter district lines.

[Jambie Lionheart]

My city has 120,000 people (on average, it fluctuates a lot when I tweak things in the city). Anyways. I have have about 4 bus depots dotted around my city somewhere. The most I've seen them spit out into the city is about 135 buses all at one time (from each depot. But i'm fairly certain that there's no real limit, except for maybe the agent/bus route limit.

[Findolfin]

I have 38k city with 7800 transported weekly. I guess the planning is paying off when I read your stats...
edit.: sorry, it's 5140 on bus transport, the rest is trams