Do anyone use road signs?

[[HKG]hkwh01]

I am not a driver, I really have no idea how it could be useful or make the logistic more efficient . Are there anyone can provide some tips or practical example about the usage of it?

[bballjo]

At a minimum, you want to use the signals for the intersections (main and secondary roads), otherwise vehicles like to slow down when they come to an unsignaled intersection.

Then, "no snowplows" is useful for keeping your snowplows in areas where they matter.

Speed limits can help with forcing trucks to use better routes.

No truck signs are useful for keeping you busy lanes free or cargo traffic.

There are many more... however, if you don't rely too heavily on road traffic, i.e. use rail/ship/air more, than you probably won't see a ton of benefit from using signals...but if you would add a lot of cars to your city, you will certainly need road signs to keep things flowing.

[Topher]

Yes all the time. Use speed limits on the access roads to city centres to ensure through traffic take a bypass road that may be slightly longer but will be completed quicker with a higher speed limit. That way you avoid construction supplies etc from causing conngestion.

You can use them to give priority to traffic on a major bus route so that traffic joining that route has to give way to traffic already on that route

You can also use them to force longer paths for pedestrians that means you can limit acces to 3rd level education so that you do not over-subscibe a university when you have limit degree level workers.

[StoneFire!☭]

If you mimic your IRL surroundings when it comes to traffic signs you'll overall get a better flow of traffic.
And if you understand traffic you'll know where to use what and how.
Watching your traffic and seeing how it behaves is a key point in this process.

[Silent_Shadow]

Some uses I have found:

• "No pedestrians" signs are nice for reserving parking lots for specific usage (residential, work/visitor only, etc.) Also nice for keeping workers away from where they aren't wanted, like walking onto a construction site.
  
  They are also needed for advanced personal car shenanigans.
  
  
• Speed limit signs are nice for controlling citizen commute times (sometimes longer is better). They can also make it easier for ambulances and fire trucks to pass other vehicles because they can ignore the speed limit.
  
  
• No [type of vehicle] signs are nice for keeping certain roads clear of specific vehicles; no tractors on the highway, no snowplows on the dirt roads, no slow vehicles on tram bridges, etc.
  
  
• No passing signs are good to place before intersections so annoying drivers don't try to pass to the front of the intersection and slow the throughput of the entire intersection.

[fjorkar]

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[Enyss]

Using signs to set priority on the intersection has a significant impact. The other signs are more situational, but they have their uses

[oldschool]

at start of the game i use two lanes in, one lane out of a large border crossing
the lane that gets used the most gets a no heavy vehicles sign forcing trucks into the unused lane reducing wait times for buses at the border

[Mudkest]

Originally posted by oldschool:

at start of the game i use two lanes in, one lane out of a large border crossing
the lane that gets used the most gets a no heavy vehicles sign forcing trucks into the unused lane reducing wait times for buses at the border

I have a similar setup, use trucks without trailers for essential suppies (food, water, sewage export, clothes, fuel) and trucks with trailers for everything else and use signs to make sure the essential trucks get into the customs house faster

[Onbird]

I use signs to make sure that the paths used to deliver workers to industries have the right of way. Workers are your most precious resource, and every second they spend in transit comes at a cost to productivity.

[SiberianDev]

Restriction signs (the round ones) are used when you need to prohibit certain vehicles from using a road.
Example 1: If you don't want trucks to cut through an industrial park, you could put up "No trucks, supply allowed" signs. That way, only trucks that actually have to use the industrial park will be allowed to enter. Trucks that would've otherwise cut through would instead use alternative routes.
Example 2: If you don't want slow vehicles to inconvenience faster traffic (e.g if you have a motorway), you could put up a "minimum speed limit" sign. That way, only vehicles whose top speed is equal or above the speed specified on the sign will be allowed to use the road. Vehicles whose top speed is lower than on the sign will instead use alternative routes.
At intersections, priority signs are used when the "priority to the right" rule is not enough. (e.g if all vehicles end up yielding to each other's right far too often). Also they're indispensable in cases when you're connecting a small road to a more busier highway, in order to get the small road to yield to the busier road.
Traffic lights are used when priority signs are not enough (e.g if the priority road is so busy that there's rarely ever a chance for vehicles on the side road to emerge.)