What is the deciding factor on who owns a car, or is it random

If the quickest mode of transport is always used, wouldn’t a car be the quickest the majority of the time. If someone has to walk > wait for and take a bus > wait for and take a train to another town > wait for and take a bus again > then walk to their destination, surely going by car would almost always be quicker than taking transport. If travel time is the only factor as to which mode of transport is used then no one is going to use your services… maybe this is why a lot of people are saying their trains aren’t making money in late game. There needs to be other factors as to which mode of transport is used like traffic density, parking space / costs etc that people consider.I think in the real world driving to work is quicker for a lot of people but they take transport as it costs too much to park or there is no parking available.

Would be interested to hear the devs / other peoples thoughts on this. An idea could be to make stations upgradable with car parks (visible or not) to attract people to them. I know a lot of train stations in the UK have this and it could also be an extra source of income for the player as they are almost never free

I also destroyed the shortest street connections between the cities and build longer ones (just to help them, so they don’t have to climb steep hills 😉 ). But I didn’t notice a significant increase.

But I noticed, that if you have a big city, the cars get stuck anyway because there are so many. So they balance themselves out somehow. In that case, I can really recommend to build bus-lanes, so your trams and busses don’t get stuck and get another advantage over cars. So in the end, cars are not that much of a problem.

Away from a few trains with high capacity to many trains with lower capacity.
That way you ensure that your frequency is high enough, so people tend to use your trains instead of your cars and that your trains are filled, so you don’t have one train driving full and 3 others, who leave the station empty.

PS: Maybe it helps to spread anxity about communism, because remember, it’s only a small step from mass transit to communism ;P

Azrael – that is an option but I like having tracks in both directions, especially on long routes. I might give it a try on my longest route when I next play though to see how it goes, I guess i could use it on a double track but just remove all signals except for at stations. Have to say thought that it seems a bit silly having to judge where to put passing points, or signals so that vehicles space themselves evenly. It would be different if the train could load at the station until its path was clear, then it would be worth doing