The behaviour of citizens of use public transportation

[littlelio]

I am wondering if anyone checked the behaviour of the citizens in the city.

Do they use, for example, bus to work/shopping, if I provided a direct link between their home and destination(I or C zones)? Because some bad AI will keep walking instead of using bus. I know there is policies to provide free public trans, but, is it true that poor people prefer bus and rich people stick with their cars?

Do they transfer between bus and subway/train? Or transfer between bus and bus? What is the maximum transition they will use to reach the goal? In reality people use 2-3 transitions, too many would be unpopular. I am saying this because it is not possible to create a public trans system providing 1 bus reaching everywhere. I kindly put bus outside of a subway station. I am just not sure if it will be (greatly) used.

What is the waiting time for average people? (Sorry but I have to quote) Simcity used to measure the effectiveness of bus by the waiting time. I just want to know how long people in skyline waiting for, to use the bus, or they just walk.

These sims are crazy using walking way across the city. In reality, at least we will use a taxi from middle of nowhere. Ok there is no taxi here which may make it more complicated.

My bad example is that I created bus system between R and I, but the factories still complain about work shortage (need uneducated workers but the neighbourhood is full of uneducated people). It seems that nobody uses the bus.

Any comment is apprecaited.

[Greygor]

From my own observations and comments by others, yes they do interchange between transport methods and will make 2-3 transitions.

I've not seen any making more than 3 transitions though, others may have seen this.

[Father Christmas]

you can follow a cim and see they they do use the transport. I have noticed though in one case a cim waitied at a bus stop to go to university. He waited so long there that he aged up to work age and by magic ported to his new work place :) In another an old gent waited so long he decided to walk and it was a loooooooon walk (plucky litte fellow who will be sadly missed) It mostly works though and is much better than in Simcity 5 where the population was mostly made up to bulk the figures up.

With bus routes make them small (about 10 buses per route) and slighly overlapping with lots of stops. make sure you use pathways so that a cim can cut through blocks of buildings. to get to a stop (remember they are prepared to walk a good distance so dont mind hopping off one bus to another ) otherwise cims will be waiting ages for a bus and your roads will be over crowded. Also build a good metro system linked to the bus routes. There are some good transport guides around.

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by littlelio:

Because some bad AI will keep walking instead of using bus.

Hooray... \o/ lol you should not be mad that they indeed walk... you HAVE to account that for mass transport... any walking cim is a car that does not clogg your roads... Walking cims are good cims... cims that use their private cars are BAD cims ;-p

IRL, my city have a nice transportation network, and it has been years that I did not use them and always walk wherever I go... I would not like a mayor that would force me to use his network :-p

[Tankfriend]

What I usually do with bus lines is the collector/distributor + connector system. Each district of my city (say, residential area A, residential area B etc.) gets a separate bus line that focuses on area coverage, acting as the collector/distributer of passengers. Every line then has one stop on a major road.

Another bus line acts as the connector and only runs up and down that one major road, connecting all the lines with each other, as well as a local transit hub where other connector lines, metro stations etc. are converging.

It works pretty well once set up, because you get both area coverage and decent speed, and it's also very easy to integrate into a transit system with a central station somewhere in your city.

[jq371]

i just watched a cim get off a train, wait for ages for a bus, then catch the bus to the next stop which the train he was originally on goes to anyway.... not sure why he changed to a bus just to go to the same place as the train he was already on... it took him so much longer to do that.
im thinking they dont look at the quickest route, just how to get to a point on the map "as the crow fliies" which is usually a much longer trip... its just annoying