Traffic and Transit Optimisation Part 1 #citiesskylines2 – Neo South Auckland

Getting people and goods moving without blowing the budget – even in unlimited money!

From 50,000 population to 73,000 by the start of this video, to 76,000 by the end of it and onto 85,000 by the end of Part Three in this series it shows how quick a city can grow even inside its own existing footprint (intensification).

Consequently as a city intensifies as Neo South Auckland currently is through upzoning (which the game makes much easier than Cities Skylines 1) what was infrastructure surpluses especially with transport assets quickly get absorbed and become infrastructure deficits!

Meaning bus lines and intersections can get clogged by general traffic movements fouling out the system particularly the transit system that needs to move ever increasing ampounts of people.

Optimisation Programe, quick wins for big gains

Roll on the review and optimisation program to see where and what is going well, and what might need a bit of a touch up before going all out of mega upgrades such as replacing bus lines with tram lines which I initially planned to do. In the end if you can do some relatively quick and cheap wins through some quick optimisation programs like intersection upgrades and changing around bus lane placements which leads to a bus line flowing more efficiently (thus able to carry more people) before resorting to going to trams then you being fiscally prudent.

The graphic below from Auckland Transport shows how many people a lane can move depending on mode type in real life cities. The same principle applies in Cities Skylines 2, and why we optimise then upgrade the systems!

The video below is the first of three parts as I go through the review and optimisation program before going all Greenfields with the construction of the City Centre, Hamilton, and the new Metropolitan Centre over the rivers.

Traffic and Transit Optimisation Part 1 #citiesskylines2 – Neo South Auckland FULL VIDEO

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction and Recap
• 00:01:50 City Statistics Review
• 00:02:50 Spatial Planning Situation
• 00:06:20 Optimisation Plan
• 00:08:00 Checking the Bus Lines
• 00:14:15 Bus Lines 4 and 5
• 00:15:40 Bus Line 4 Fly Through
• 00:19:40 Decision to Optimise Intersections first
• 00:20:00 Bus Line 4 Fly Through Part 2
• 00:26:30 Gripe about incorrect traffic flow
• 00:28:30 Optimisation Begins

Coming up

In Part 2 we continue optimisation of Bus Lines 4 and 5 including riding Bus Line 4. We also seem some very “wonderful” driving, the need to redo Bus Lines 11 and 12, and the fact a certain residential signature building that sits on Bus Lines 4 and 5 might need moving in Part 3 owing to its very high pedestrian volumes affecting the area.