So I try to have the map almost finished by this point if I can. Once the population got to 300 or more, it seems the roads are destined to get jammed. In the end, I didnt find either way more advantageous over the other. Residents who do not live near a garage will walk to the nearest places to get their needs met and thus the production of their jobs suffers. Residents who live near a garage will travel farther to get their needs met - meaning more traffic. I have experimented with lots of garages all over and just a few garages spread out. If you put 2 docks next to each other it increases traffic to that part alot. I also put a dock at each point the island has a beach so traffic can go a couple different ways. I try to keep all farms/food buildings in same area unless the topography doesnt support the food type. I found that building all industry building as close to the docks as possible help some. If they moved into one nearest their job, they could walk to work reducing the traffic by 1/2. This is the biggest part of the congestion I have observed. Residents dont move into the apartments/houses closest to their work - they move into one all the way across the map. Yea I have the same issues sometimes with roads being jammed. Is there something I'm missing here? Or is traffic efficiency just a matter of dumping trains and garages everywhere? I have to assume that's why nothing is being done but when you have large industry on a big island it seems like traffic jams are basically unavoidable. I have farms with two storey high production storage areas because nothing is being transported, my markets are sitting empty despite 3 docks all with a healthy import allowance, and when I look at my roads they are just completely filled with very slow moving traffic. My jewerly and cigar distillery on one side of the map have generated $300,000 each but they still have a lot of outgoing material but the other factories on the other side of the island are sitting at -$20,000 with over 500 produce waiting to be exported.to the dock right next to the teamsters who should be right next to the factory. I'm playing the campaign so I don't have access to trains just yet, but it seems that even when I put several teamster offices and a couple of garages near my industrial district I still have A LOT of outbound produce that never goes anywhere.
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