More passengers than city population?

[eugene]

Could this be a bug?   I have a city with a population of 3400 and have a bus stop with 3200 passengers and another with 7600 passengers.   Shouldn't my city population be much higher if I have that many people living in a bus stop?

[An_dz]

I live in Florianópolis, but sometimes I go to Joinville. If I'm waiting the bus in Joinville to go to Florianópolis I'm a Joinville citizen? No, but I'm there waiting the bus.

But the passengers are handled a little strange in Simutrans. Those happen because the number of citizens are different from its internal number. Better I don't explain because I'm not really sure.

[omikron]

If your passengers pile up on the bus stop to that extent, then there is something seriously wrong with your network - you should add a lot of buses...

omikron

[el_slapper]

...or switch to a higher capacity transport method, Trolleybus, tram, monorail, train... Bus lines tend to clutter when overloaded with vehicles. The effect in Simutrans is less dramatic than in Cities in motion, for example, still it is real.

[isidoro]

I see the point of eugene.  The question is that sometimes passengers pile up in stations because the network is not capable of transporting them efficiently.  In one of those situations, if I count the number of all persons waiting and traveling in all the map and it is far greater than the number of citizens in my map, where do they come from?

I think that this constrain is not taken into account by the engine and that situation may happen...  but I may be wrong.