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Community => Simutrans Help Center => Topic started by: ronnie89b on November 22, 2011, 05:43:14 PM

Title: passenger transport
Post by: ronnie89b on November 22, 2011, 05:43:14 PM
In the real life the people, who travel further, get on first the bus and so on.
For example I do a bus line between cities: A-B-C-D-E. There are a lot of passengers in city A and they go to B,C,D,E and  there's a  problem. I think the bus should pick up first the passengers to city E, then D, C and last B. But in the game it's inverse, the bus pick up first the passengers to B, then C,D and E. The trains work good at this point of view.

Is this method change recently? because I don"t remember the game did it formerly.
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: Combuijs on November 22, 2011, 09:19:51 PM
Yes, there have been changes into this, depends on how you define "lately". I'm not sure when this changed. One year ago, two years ago?
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: Severous on November 22, 2011, 10:04:22 PM
I played 2 years ago and the order of passenger pick up seemed to be the same as now, B, C, D, E (Standard versions).

In real life I never see waiting passengers sort them selves in order of distance to be traveled, neither shortest or longest have priority. First come, first served. (+plus a bit of queue jumping here or there)

Maybe you can alter the bus stopping order?:
A>B>C>D>E>D>C>B> is presumably what you have now.
A>E>D>C>B> would alter the load (and stopping order) to what you want
A>B>C>D>E>D>C>B>A>E>D>C>B would mix it up a bit alternating the stopping and loading pattern.
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: Dwachs on November 23, 2011, 05:01:35 PM
This behavior has not been changed.
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: ronnie89b on November 23, 2011, 06:28:58 PM
Do you plan to change this system? For example there are a lot of passenger to every city(B,C,D,E) from city A, and the bus ,with 100 seats, pick up 25-25 people (or something like that) to every city.
I think it is more realistic,than the current system.
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: An_dz on November 23, 2011, 06:56:35 PM
I don't think it's more realistic, in truth I never seen this type of behavior. From the bus companies here, it's who buys the ticket first.
So if someone buys the ticket from city C to E, he takes off the seat for someone that will want one from A to E, but not from someone that will want one from A to C.
If it could be changed I would say, have a maximum load option, or use the behavior I described, who gets in first get the seat.
Title: Re: passenger transport
Post by: ronnie89b on November 23, 2011, 08:22:11 PM
Maybe the maximum load option solve my problem, it's a good idea.
I thought the coach. The bus driver call the people, who travel 150-200km or more, to the furthest city (E) , then who travels D, etc. So the driver prefers long-distance passengers. Of course if empty places remain in the bus, the short-distance pass' can travel with this bus. It concerns only the hungarian situation.