Questions about CAM pathfinding.

[diamonddog_74]

As part of my CAM installation, I installed the "Promote Walking" plug-in. So now, my city has reached a population of about 110,000. I built bus stations and a subway to get people from R to I, and C, but hardly anyone used the subway to get "downtown," so I had to demolish it. The bus system usage is OK, but certainly not something to brag about.

It seemed that only the C areas close enough (right next) to R were getting commuters. But, I have a whole section of downtown where I "hover query" buildings, and they say "workers none." Sure enough, when I "Route Query" the building, no one is going there, even if that building is right next to a bus stop on one of the main arteries. This section is only a few more tiles away from the R sections. The city planner adviser keeps bugging me to zone for C, but there's a whole section of downtown that is zoned, manicured (park amenities) but not developing.

Another thing is absolutely no one is using my railroads. I built this really nice Central Railroad complex downtown to get people to a neighboring city that has industrial jobs, and no one is using it. This station is linked to the bus system, and is close to a mid-high density residential area.

The nice thing is that my pedestrian traffic is a lot higher than bus, and car, so my streets are not congested at all except for a couple of bottlenecks that I'm working on fixing the next time I play.

So, my questions are:

Is the purpose of the plug-in to build very compact (yet dense) cities?

What then, is the strategy for getting workers from a large city like this one to the industrial park in the neighboring city?

This is the first city I play with CAM, so I have definitely noticed that it requires a different way of approaching the game. I just would like to hear some suggestions.

[RippleJet]

I understand Korot has helped you with this already in connection with the functional airports.
It is indeed recommended that you do not install the traffic plugins that come with CAM,
but instead rely on whatever traffic plugin you installed with the latest NAM.

[diamonddog_74]

I understand Korot has helped you with this already in connection with the functional airports.
It is indeed recommended that you do not install the traffic plugins that come with CAM,
but instead rely on whatever traffic plugin you installed with the latest NAM.

Yeah, I should probably delete this topic?

I read through a couple of other CAM-related threads mentioning similar situations (though they didn't think of the traffic plugin), and then Korot confirmed what I suspected. I've made the necessary changes in my Plugins folder. I haven't played the game yet to test it out.