How to transport passengers

You don't need to place very much bus stops in a city. Each bus stop covers an area of 5x5 tiles (in old Simutrans releases 7x7 tiles). In current simutrans releases you can show the coverage area with the v-key.

see: Busstations discussion (simugraph-forum)

In the following image I have highlighted the area which is served by a bus stop:
http://www.simutrans-tips.com/pic/tutorials/truck_train/einzugsbereich.jpg (outdated, 110 KB)

There is a speed limit of 50 km/h on city roads (in Simutrans 0.84.1.0 and later)

You should consider this if you buy new busses and trucks.

Connect cities with rail only (a loop track with multiple trains). Otherwise you still need 50+ busses.

Author:
Marcel Detz, 20-Oct-2002

Passengers are not selecting the shortest route. They select the route with the least number of transfers.

Passengers currently count the transfers between transportation modes.
I.e. change from bus to train = 1 transfer. They try to use the route with the least number of transfers. If there are "equal" routes, they use whichever they find first.

Note from webmaster: every change is counted (Even that from bus to bus)


As of Simutrans 0.84.8 (This will change sometime)

Written by Hajo, Edited by Markus Weber

Passengers are changing the transport vehicle to reach their destination. A passenger will at most change the vehicle 30 times.

As example a passenger will use a bus to drive to a railway station where a train to his destination is waiting.