billg@hitachi.uucp (Bill Gundry) (11/30/90)
From article <9668@fy.sei.cmu.edu>, by firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth): > In article <90330.145528RJGRAHAM@MIAMIU.BITNET> RJGRAHAM@MIAMIU.BITNET (Bob Graham) writes: > >> When I have heavy traffic on a road, adding a rail next to it >>does not seem to lower the traffic level substantially. This seems >>to indicate that there is a preference for roads. > > That's been my experience too, playing the scenarios that have this > feature. Since the traffic algorithms are based on the trip as the When I get the "heavy traffic reported" notices, and the congestion map shows red all over a particular artery, I just get out the old bulldozer, nuke the road and install mass transit. This appears to make the problem go away. I now have a metropolis conssiting mainly of mass transit and no congestion... Bill Gundry Hitachi America ...uunet!hitachi!billg