How to fix your Traffic

[AchoKaracho]

I was playing around with the developer tool last night. (Could not sleep)

How do you turn on the developer tool?
In the Steam library, right-click on Cities Skylines ->Properties->General->Enter developerMode in the line for the start options. (important to use capital M)
Use at your own risk. I am not responsible if your city crashes or bugs because you turn this on

There is an option there that shows you where all the vehicles want to go.
Open the console with tabulator->Gizmos->Navigation debug system, then deactivate everything except the cars
Important! Click on a car first if you don't know whether your PC can do it.
This means that you will not be shown the route finding directly for all cars on the map, but only for the individual car.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087054568


I used this to fix an industrial area that always caused traffic jams.
On the screenshot you can see where the vehicles that want to go to the freight station and those that drive from the freight station towards the industrial area drive.
They all drive through the residential area, heading north towards the industrial area.
Although you can see a highway on the right.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037358

After I checked some trucks coming from the train station where they were going.
I saw that they all drive through the middle of the residential area and cause traffic jams.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087035913
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037402

Here you can see where they want to go
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037442

So I imposed a heavy traffic ban on the district.
That helped; the heavy trucks no longer drove through the industrial area.
As a result, my intersection on the highway, which you can see below on the right, was overloaded.
In addition, the intersection at the industrial area further north was also overloaded.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037473
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037358

Since I had a road heading north anyway to make it easier for residents to get to work, I built a 4-lane highway past the town.
After a short time, all vehicles that came from the station and some that came from the highway chose this new route.
As a result, traffic has calmed down and there are no longer any traffic jams in this part of the city
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087036432
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037508
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087036528

And this is what it looks like for the entire city
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3087037797

It would be nicer if you could press on a section of road like in CS1 and see where the vehicles are going, but as long as that doesn't exist (shame!) you can use it to solve your traffic problems.

The only disadvantage is that it requires a lot of computing power