Cities: Skylines

Cities: Skylines

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Realistic Walking Speed
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Realistic Walking Speed

Description
Adjusts pedestrian walking speeds to realistic values.



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Long description
This mod fixes the unrealistic vanilla citizen walking speed that bothered me from day one.
In order to find more realistic values I took this:
http://lermagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/11-gait-table1.jpg
for values below 20 this:
https://musculoskeletalkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/B9781455706150000094_f009-007-9781455706150.jpg
and translated it into game values.

If you have more realistic values for me, I'd be glad to take your input and adjust my mod appropriately.

Walk animation speed
In order to make it look even better Ronyx69 pushed me to also adjust the walk animation speed.
He helped out with fine tuning the animation factor.

All good and well but ... still too fast
That depends on what you relate it to.
The mod adjusts the speed such that they are correct in relation to all other vehicle speeds (tractors and crazy wheelchairs aside).
A medium age cim walking around the city should have roughly 1/8 the speed of a bus driving on a basic road that has a tempo limit of 40. The thing is that the simulation speed itself varies and is at game speed 1 faster on most gaming rigs than real time but tends to get much slower in larger cities.
To slow the game down you can use mods like https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406354745 and bring it inline with real world time.

Issues
Multiple uses have reported that movement speed has a significant impact on the boarding times at train and metro stations, especially for longer trains. I am aware of the issue. This is not a bug though, but just the way the game handles boarding. Maybe I will make a separate mod to change that, but don't expect it anytime soon.

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Mod Version: 1.3.0
Logo by: ... it's complicated
Icon by: Chris Thoburn

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233 Comments
egi  [author]
Jul 3 @ 12:04pm 
@Tagar according to Improved Public Transport 3, the mod is incorporated there. check out the mods page. so either use this one or IPT3 but not both.
Jul 1 @ 8:38pm 
need an update
May 8 @ 12:04pm 
It's incompatible with Improved Public Transport 3, we need an update!
May 5 @ 3:39pm 
The mod needs a small update! Pedestrians always appear running; very few are walking. An update would be very welcome.
Apr 1 @ 1:41pm 
The mod is appearing as active but is not available when trying to adjust the options. Needs an update I guess
Oct 31, 2025 @ 7:08am 
Just fine for me. Various different stops may not work.
Aug 27, 2025 @ 6:44am 
It is not broken. It works just fine. It does not need an update.
Aug 26, 2025 @ 6:23pm 
BROKEN MOD, NEEDS UPDATE!

UPDATE WHEN?????????????
Jul 10, 2025 @ 10:02am 
In YOUR game. You said "IT NEEDS AN UPDATE" as if you had empirical evidence. Which you do not. Because you cannot. Because it does not.

The reason I called it spam is because, just like you're doing again today, you had copy pasted a bunch of spammy, unhelpful, and often erroneous comments across a number of mods. My encouragement to you is to not do that. It's also worth noting that, five months later, you still have not corrected your misleading comment.
egi  [author]
May 11, 2025 @ 7:19am 
@vila, no