Overview which vehicles/technique I need for which construction

[Heisenberg]

Hello is there an overview or website where I can clearly see which vehicles / technology I need for which construction / work.

For example: construction of a gravel road, a power line or cultivation of a field, etc.

[BanzaiCharge]

You can determine the types of trucks you need by looking at the construction materials.
Gravel, Asphalt: Dump truck
Concrete: Mixer truck
Steel, Lumber, Bricks: Open hull
Mechanical components, Electrical components: Covered hull.

You don't NEED mechanisms in theory, but bringing them will accelerate the building process, and there are mechanism that don't need to be manned if they are present.

Construction of building has generally two phases:
1. digging the foundation
2. constructing the building
Digging foundation uses excavators, having a mechanism will complete the phase without additional manpower.
Construction of the building generally can use tower cranes, but they still need to be manned to progress the porcess.
There is a third phase when constructiong mines, which is tunneling there are no mechanism present, only raw manpower.

Road building.
To be honest here I don't build concrete roads ever, so I don't know what the processes are. The other types have the following phases with the tyoes of truck needed to transport the materials:
- Graveling (dump truck) - for gravel roads this is enough
- Laying asphalt (dump truck)
- Rolling - asphalt roads without lights stop here
- Installation of lights. (Open hull and covered hull trucks) - asphalt roads with lights
- Installation of overhead wires/rails. (Open hull and covered hull trucks) - for trolley roads or tram roads

Graveling can use excavators (slower) and bullldozers (faster), which can be done unmanned
Laying asphalt can use an asphalt layers which can also be done unmanned.
Rolling can use road roller, also can be done unmanned
Installation of lights can use cranes but need manpower
Installation of overhead wires rails also can use cranes but need to be manned.

On cranes: you can buy either road cranes or tower cranes. Road cranes will drive to the construction themselves, tower cranes need to be transported by open hull truck that can carry them. Look for how much they can fit.

On mechanisms in general
Excavators, bulldozers and rollers can move themselves, but their speed is pretty low* and they can slow down traffic on a busy road. You might want to check the box wich allows them only to be carried on open hull trucks if hte construction is far from your office.

*: Except the T815 mechanism, which is both an excavator and a bulldozer and has a high top speed.

On terraforming:
Raising and lowering terrain needs excavator, leveling terrain needs bulldozer.
BUT leveling terrain when you want to place a building also needs excavators.

[Mudkest]

the concrete roads(prefab panels) take manpower that can be sped up with crane, needs gravel road first like asphalt and cant be upgraded.(maybe it can be upgraded with tram tracks, but will block acces to non tram vehicles if possible)

[joeball123]

Bear in mind that there is a minimum distance for the use of paving mechanisms, so if you're dealing with particularly short segments of road or path you'll need a passenger vehicle of some type even if the work you're doing could normally be performed by mechanisms alone.

Also be aware that CO autosearch categories have a bit of pitfall in that the "roads" and "footpaths" categories include their respective bridge and tunnel types, which generally want a significantly different balance of resources and machinery than grade-level roads and paths. It's probably not going to be worth your while to build specialized bridgework COs or anything like that, but if you're using CO autosearch category restrictions to limit the kinds of projects a given CO works on then it may be worth at least considering assigning something other than the usual roadwork COs to bridge and tunnel projects.

[ArielMomo]

. I only build buildings with CO. all the road, rail, pipes, cable, etc.. i use the rapid way. I found that waiting hours or days to see one rail line completed is somewhat underwhelming