At 90k/2.4k it’s expensive but cheaper in both upfront cost and upkeep than building one of each.īesides cost, its main benefit is the ability to transfer cargo from rail to water without an endless stream of trucks travelling back and forth between the two buildings. It’s a cargo train terminal and cargo harbour combined. The After Dark DLC added the excellent Cargo hub. Ships will use the closest one to where the cargo is going, so you have specific harbours for shops and industry.
Of course, you can have as many as you like. That’s why it’s a good idea to link your harbours to nearby train terminals, or just replace them with Cargo hubs. In other words, by putting the harbour nice and close to a big commercial area, you might also generate a load of unwanted traffic heading to and from your industrial areas. The cargo harbour needs an external water connection and from then on will bring cargo ships to the city. If your city has a mix of imports and exports it’s unlikely all that traffic will be heading to the same place, which makes choosing optimal placement important. That could be an industrial later in the supply chain, your main commercial area, or next to your harbour if your city exports a lot.Īs with passenger lines, place as many stations as you think are useful – and ideally leave room for adding more later.Īlthough they’re expensive, adding more means evening out the pressure on roads around the stations rater than overloading one or two. Put one station that’s convenient for goods – close to your industrial areas for example, and another near where those products are going. The cargo train terminal works exactly like a passenger station except it can only accept cargo, obviously. With this information about the city’s supply chain, you’ll have a handle on what products are going where and be able to plan accordingly for major flows of traffic. If you see a shop that is grey in this overlay, that means it is getting its products from with the city. The generic industry buildings do the same, while commercial zones only import.īy pulling up the Outside Connections tab in the UI you can see, in real time, what buildings are importing and exporting what. The raw material producers only export products (whether internally or externally), the secondary processors import and export. Specialised industry spawns two types of building. But in essence (hopefully the graphic above makes sense) it works like this: To see more about who needs what and when this supply chain article might be useful. If it’s the fastest option, trucks will go the nearest cargo station and unload at the station nearest to the destination.
This graphic is from the Supply chain article but works here too.Ĭargo can travel on rails for any part of its journey. I’ve got all the expansions installed but only After Dark’s Cargo Hub isn’t in the base game.
STEAM CITIES SKYLINES TRAFFIC GUIDE PS4
Ĭompatibility: Here I’m writing about the vanilla unmodded game so it applies across the PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox, PS4 and Switch versions. I’ve got an article about other ways of reducing traffic. If it shortens the journey, cargo will (like a person) find its way to a station, loads itself up, unload at the closest station to its destination, then drive the rest of the way.īy putting stations, harbours and hubs near where cargo is coming from and near where it’s going, whole sections of the journey won’t need to be made on the road. Rail freight works pretty similarly to passenger transport. Combine a good rail cargo system with an efficient public transport network and your roads will flow smoothly and serenely. Getting your cargo on rails is one of the best ways of fixing your traffic problems.
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