Every citizen that walks or bikes is one less car congesting your streets. residential with industry and/or commerce). Your citizens are actually very willing to walk or bike if they can reach the target destination, so make sure to plop down a lot of these tiny roads to connect important areas (e.g. Pedestrian roads are used to allow people access areas by walking or by bike, without creating crossings that slow down traffic. These are the roads you want to use to get the building squares for your zone designations.

They can be as small as two lanes, since general traffic on them should be low. Local roads are used for short range trips and as a means to go to the collector roads. crossings & traffic lights) as possible to slow cars down. Traffic on these will be relatively high, so you want to make sure that there are as little distractions (e.g. Make sure that you have seperate off-ramps for industrial & residential traffic.Ĭollectors are larger roads that act as arteries that 'funnel' traffic from the highway into local roads & the other way around. Highways are used for long-range travel to connect high-traffic areas (city disctricts, Industrial areas, airports, harbours, etc.). cars & trucks) and encourage people to take the bigger roads to their destination.

industrial zones from residential areas) in the road network to split up traffic (e.g. You actually want to seperate parts of your city (e.g. Even with a grid layout you don't want/need to connect every road to every other road in its way. The idea is that roads have different functions within the city, and the city layout uses this to distribute traffic in an effective manner. There are multiple things you want to understand for successful traffic management:

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