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First time NAM user - Traffic questions

Started by MoarTriangle, February 16, 2013, 07:03:54 AM

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MoarTriangle

Hello

I started playing Sim City 4 a few weeks ago and I've mostly been playing around with the simulator trying to understand how it works. When i learned the pathing was bugged in the original game i decided to download NAM and so I did but now I've got a few things i cannot figure out.

The city consists of only low wealth sims and commercial jobs, I have all the dirty industry in a city next to it. The two cities are connected with avenue and underground tram.

Before i installed NAM i had almost exclusively bus traffic in this city, but after i seems to be getting barley any bus rides at all to the commercial jobs, why is this?

Also, will the congestion get better if my sims start taking buses instead of cars to their commerical jobs? Because from what I've understood buses dont work the same way in NAM as in the original, but im having a very hard time finding any information about the changes. Is there a site for the changes NAM does to traffic?

City
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10pwzfc&s=6

Traffic Data View
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2a763xk&s=6

Rout Querry tool to commercial jobs with bus stops marked
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34nk3lz&s=6

Zoning
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=z7kns&s=6

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Quote from: MoarTriangle on February 16, 2013, 07:03:54 AM
Is there a site for the changes NAM does to traffic?

The first post in the NAM Unified Traffic Simulator and Data View Help should answer a lot of your questions.  You can find more detailed information in A Guide to the Operation of the Traffic Simulator.