Can be trams bidirectional?

[J_A]

Hi, I have a problem which is solved partially. I'm using bidirectional tram tracks and I've set last car engine i AVO mod what - technically - works. But finally, tram bahavior is still like unidirectional.

It's possibility to reach full bidirectionality?

 

[Langeooger 13]

Not at the moment. I think the tram will be negleced. No 1 Track 2 Way ´s , you have to build a turning cicle, no underground station, so you have to build a double system with tram and metro. What a shame

 

[J_A]

But you see on screenshot and video that I've used 2-way tracks and I've set 2-directional tram and (somehow) it turns on teminus, but ugly and it's been blocked by itself.

 

[Langeooger 13]

I will try with single track

 

[Mattias]

Not at the moment. I think the tram will be negleced. No 1 Track 2 Way ´s , you have to build a turning cicle, no underground station, so you have to build a double system with tram and metro. What a shame

Trams are like buses, they don't use stations, do they (only stops)? It's perfectly possible to place a tram stop just outside the subway station, like irl. Sims frequently change from one type of transport to another, just watch them

 

[J_A]

I've built just tram track but bidirectional and with possibility to place a stop. And this is working. But vehicle is doing turns in place instead of use the second control unit set by mod on picture (actually setting is affected what is visible when I change capacity for control car and effect is doubled).
Whole situation is in video, have you seen it?

I suppose Langeooger is talking about just underground tram (and he's right - there are no actual underground stops for tram, also in Workshop - you've got to do many weird stuff to get something imitating underground tram stop). When it was possible, metro wouldn't be necessary in most cities.

Personally, I'm not using metro in my cities, tram and rail is enough (by the way, it makes system more expensive what is an absurd that metro is cheaper(!), but play is more demanding).

 

[Mattias]

Sorry, I don't know of a possible solution, am building turining circles myself (wich partly blocks at least one lane).

 

[Dushess]

Trams never uses bidirectional ways. there is almost no switches where one tram might get out from the way. It is usable for railways, we even have a mod. But only because train might leave section on nearest fork and сhoose another path to destination. Tram tracks have so much space and can have samу multitrack patterns (not).

 

[Dushess]

it makes system more expensive what is an absurd that metro is cheaper

Huh, in Cities... we using a mod for any case. It helps a lot.

 

[J_A]

Trams never uses bidirectional ways. there is almost no switches where one tram might get out from the way. It is usable for railways, we even have a mod. But only because train might leave section on nearest fork and сhoose another path to destination. Tram tracks have so much space and can have samу multitrack patterns (not).

Have you seen my video, picture and read my post?

 

[Dushess]

Well, If say directly to the question, logic have place even in games... It needs two leading units, like trains have. Here is clearly first car going back trough others and then turns over the entire tram-train. Just pure mechanics as I can say. And if trams doesn't support that, we can't do anything than use standard tram railways. It is working as needed but only for such car, and result can't be achieved without moving other car to be 1st in train.

Hope it's possible to emulate, they have direct bonding to their classes, not very familiar with code, but you may rewrite this to represent train (?) and this thing will use both motor cars on bidirectional track.... But it will not work as tram, if even will work at all.

 

[J_A]

But, as I wrote, AVO actually HAS PLACED leading unit in both sides.

I apply two leading unit for long time and forgot train, while going back, move actually BACKWARDS nad don't need leading car. I realized it literally a moment ago xD And this is the problem
You didn't pay attention to this? So ok, due this fact, bidirectional tram may be impossible but routing, as I've shown above, can be directional (and track, too).

 

[Dushess]

Then sorry for carelessness, something in there is glitched...
Maybe that's it,.. the pathes just pulling tram out, and it is not visual line glitch. I probably gonna try this one too.

 

[Langeooger 13]

Es geht nur darum, einen bestimmten Abschnitt einer Spur zu einer einzelnen Spur zu machen, da kein Platz für zwei Spuren vorhanden ist. Ich baue gerade meine Heimatstadt und möchte so nah wie möglich am Original bleiben. Es funktioniert auch für die U-Bahn