Cities Skylines: Amar City - Part 11 - Airport Design 

It's Amazing it fits perfectly and is close enough to the city that the residents don't have to travel far but also far enough away that it won't bother the people living in Amar City

31:22 I had never thought that Amar City was so small

Been anxiously waiting for an airport episode in Cities Skylines from you, since I absolutely love your sandbox game gameplays and I have an enormous passion for aviation and piloting. To answer your question at 6:48 : Your runway markings are totally fine, those are US Precision touchdown zone markings. Most big international airports (outside the UK, because you often see chequered aiming point stripes there) use those markings. These stripes simply show the pilot where to ideally touch down. What you could have meant with 'somewhat different' are those white and yellow arrows that sometimes appear ahead of a runway (Like in OBBI / Bahrain - Al Manamah). Those sections are called 'Blastpad' (yellow) or 'displaced threshold'. Blastpads are there to extend the runway in case an aircraft touches down too late and might overshoot. Therefore a blastpad does not count as a part runway and isn't part of the overall length of the runway. As a pilot you are not allowed to taxi on blastpads if you are not in an emergency. Displaced thresholds move the touchdown zone further down the runway and are handy and often used if terrain or buildings are in the approach path, so aircraft may approach higher to have a safe overflight altitude over cities and terrain and touch down later. The perfect example for this is Florence Airport in Italy. Just go on Google Maps and try the 3D view. You will perfectly see the displaced threshold and the terrain ahead of it. Great video as always!

this is the series that started the "awesome logo for your city" trend.

Omg. the way he builds is just amazing

Sorry to post on a video that is 'ancient' in RU-vid standards, but here in Lithuania, long term parking solved itself. Car rental is super affordable here (almost as cheap as driving Your own) and You can leave cars in different city literally anywhere along road all around the country. People just rent a car in one town, arrive to an airport (or vacation town), drop it off. When they come back, they rent the car from airport city and drive back home. I know it contradicts Your philosophy, but You can always explain why small parking lots work ;)

I actually didn't know that about the wind direction thing. I always thought it was weird that airports would have two runways crossing at 90 or 45 degree angles. I figured if they needed multiple runways, having them intersect defeated the purpose because you could only use one at a time, and especially having them perpendicular was a very inefficient use of space in a facility that already takes up a lot of it by necessity. However knowing about those wind direction requirements suddenly makes all of that make sense.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!!!! THIS IS SO FUCKING DETAILED. GODDAMMIT IT HURTS MY LAZINESS ANYWAY, WHAT A REALLY GOOD JOB MAN.

This city would be a perfect setting for electric VTOL planes. A modern, sleek and renewable energy city with a modern, sleek and renewable energy airport. The current one is very well designed. However it seems a bit close to the city and it's quite large in comparison. This technology would fit very well with Amar city. Sadly I don't think the technology is developed for such things. Great vid though!

You should have a "park and ride" section somewhere on the outskirts with large car parks connected to the city by bus and train, so people coming to the city from the north of Bahrain can leave their cars there and travel in by public transport. Realistically speaking, people are unlikely to use the airport to come from the north of the country, as Bahrain is small and where the current airport is it would probably be quicker to drive directly than drive to one airport and take a plane. I myself have driven from the north of the country to the south, and if memory serves me correctly it only took about an hour. So given how interesting the city is, I'm sure you'd get a lot of Bahrainis visiting by car.

The city is lit. and it keeps getting better

Could you also make a race track? Bahrain has one ;)

My name is Ammar, thanks for building a whole city for me.

Best airport I have ever seen

that last shot of the video... ohhhh man yeah.

I was expecting airport like Sharjah airport in the Arab Emirates. In the first look the main terminal roof of the airport looks like the top of the mosque, which immediately giving the sensation of the beauty of Arab culture right before you land there. I know it's hard to make mosque looking dome in this game, but man, what an idea. Great job nonetheless!

A little late to the party here, but there is a large scale project going on in Africa right now where the Sahel borders the Sahara where residents of the areas are re-foresting the Sahel to present desertification and the spread of the Sahara. It's called the Green Wall or something like that. So there is some merit in planting drought resistant vegetation in order to make an area a little bit less desert-y. I also used to live in Phoenix, AZ where there are a lot of trees and other plants planted in pedestrian areas, and there are even misters (mist sprinklers) in areas where crowds gather outdoors to keep them cool. In an area where the temperature is regularly 40-45 C, that stuff is very necessary. Open exposure to that heat is deadly if you aren't properly hydrated and acclimated to it.

btw those markings on the runway is called Touchdown zone which basically means that you have to land in that zone and runway markings vary a lot between airports it all has to do with the length of the runway.

I'm Australian and after tripping out over your road system I realised you guys drive on the other side of the road -_-

The cinematic shots are incredible!

super video again i love the detailing and super quality keep going

Bizarre to hear about a 737 as an "international" plane, but I guess that's what I get for being American. Let me know if you want some Amar City planes, Silv!

With a size like the city of Amar City, I think the airport is way to small, it needs atleast 2 more terminals and another runway. When the population rises you will see why. And there is really small amount of security around the airport (with that I mean none). You should add some toll booths or small checkpoints, because I don't want any suicide bombers destroy this more or less beautiful airport.

YOU ARE THE BEST RU-vidR EVER!! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

Yep here is this one Highway Bridge connecting Mainland Seoul (Incheon) to the Airport kinda island. And between the mainland and the Airport, there are building Sondo, the biggest private real estate in history.

another nice video. Thumbs upppp!!!!

What a good work!! How did you film your city, by the way? Did you use any mods for better resolution? The video quality is so good :)

Middle Eastern cities tend to have big airports because their often used as a 'stop' on non-non stop flights

silvarret maybe make a Welcome to Amor city at the airport, with like bushes and other flowers. It would look cool.

Are you Dutch? because you were talking about really small airports in the Netherlands, very funny to hear, because I am Dutch.

I love that you use dutch airports

I know I’m late but that bird THICC

The airport I usually use, PHL, has some cheap parking options in the industry towns around the airport; You could do that

Great Job Silvarret, the only thing that really buggers me are the airport lights in the Bus Transit Hub. I think they are a bit to big and look somewhat out of place. Just to make a suggestion here, maybe try and use the 2 sided Lamps, I think they would fit better :)

You know, having big runways is not a problem. For example in my city ( Brest, France ), the runway of our airport is 4km, enough big so any type of airplane can land. But you will never see an A380, a 747 landing in my city, only A320's and 737's. And when you look you compare the airport to the city, the airport is huge, but it doesn't matter.

31:20 - Now that is a beautiful, big but compact city.

Love seeing this in my subscription box!

Such a nice episode Silv 😁

I've been to Songdo IBD, it's a beautiful city and very well designed. Songdo is quite small as well, so i don't think Amar City sticks out in this way.

Are you normal human ?? Man you are a GENIUS !! Keep goin'''

Really reminds me of Bahrain airport. Job well done!

Hey, did you remember to put a cell-phone lot in? I know you have short-term and long-term parking, but many airports also have free, "stay with your car" parking lots called cell-phone lots, where people can wait when picking someone up.

Wow this is looking amazing

amazing work and detail !!! love it !

This series makes me want to do something similar in Cities skyline, but it looks far more complicated than anything I could do. The mods alone do my head in.

in California, buying/leasing electric cars is encouraged. the federal and state governments here give you a rebate for having one, and there are public chargers almost everywhere. maybe you could encourage that in the city? I know there are some great Teslas in the workshop and I'm sure there are more EV varieties there.

Hi Silva. First of all, love your series. Watching CS City builders is always fun, but I keep coming back to your channel with a smile. Now, to the airport. If you need any guidance on the runway markings/lights etc. you should check out Doofer911, who has done a series of videos about this. But thats only if you want to be perfectionistic with your airport ;)

Next you should do an alpine/forest city !

you should also include the 757 to the airport. it was designed to handle shorter runways.

Love ur work man. Btw, which mod r u use in the game? It's really nice and looks great

Ooooo... nice camera works.

I may be a kid, but maybe change up the roads, they look way too fresh with whatever mod you use to make them black. love the series

Not a fan of this actually. I like your work in general but here proportion seems absolutly biased; the landing runway seems too close to the "parking" runway, there is tall building everywhere which is... kinda strange, and the all set is wayyy too close to the main city ! God you imagine living in the building downtown and earing these aircraft all day ? Specialy in a new & green city like amar, urban planning will not does the same mistake as before... The parking lot and the general stuff is very well crafted, but in terms of space planning this is a bit nonscence and dull. Look sharjah internationnal airport for instance, there is space. It breath, flow, and secured.. Here, you have one aircraft missing the landing and the all thing goes boom :)

I could have missed you explaining it, but why didn't you make an onramp onto the outbound highway (going away from the city)?

Look on the net for the ICAO ANNEX 14, there you'll find everything about airports design.

Amazing! greetings from Brazil!

Amazing im so glad i heard about u from strit and flux awesome awesome

List of assets? Would love one. Also, what is the theme you are using?

I honestly think Amar City is the best series out there. I'm hoping you tackle the issue of water production in the desert, especially with how much foiliage there is. There weren't any desalination assets on the workshop, so I repurposed some stuff to create a modular desalination plant. Hoping you might use it in Amar City sometime! steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909115054

Love this, so nice and detailled

Due to the wind conditions at coastline cities it is more than unlikely to have less than 2 runways at such cities close to the sea..

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Awsome Airport, but I think there are some plane parking spots missing where people can board via bus. It's a typical thing small Airports have to cheaply increase the plane parking count. Furthermore only having six Gates seems like way to little giving the sice oft the Rest oft the Airport. Still it's an awsome Airport 👍

Could you build a race circuit like the Bahrain International Circuit?

What mods did u use for the airport and the skyscrapers and from where did you download them?

Yay finally Excited:)

I think you're Horizon of airplanes seems to be pretty limited on Boeing :/ This Airport would also be perfect for some A 320/50 and many private jets (maybe you can place some on the other side of the runway, next to the industry.

this is really nice

needs some advertising and billboards around the airport or signage hehe

You can look at the sunrise and sunset to know where north, south, east and west are in the game

Amar is starting to really take shape! I like it. Any chance of a cheeky shout out for my "What Map?" Map Review show? Thanks

Could you make a collection in the Steam workshop? With all the Assets and mods you use? That would be really cool. And keep up the good work!

How do you get you game to run so smooth with a huge city? My Specs is a GTX 980, 16gb Ram, GPU: I7 6700k. I know that mods can slow you down. But what settings do you use and do you have a lot of mods?

omg i love this video!

What is your opinion on Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City in Kuwait? It is the definition of sprawl by using small residential buildings and a huge space, but at the same time has brought in hundreds of species of fish, mangroves and other sea life into a once void of a desert.

i love your videos

Your city is stunning!

I have no expertise, but shouldn't be there some sound barriers between the walkway around the parking space and the highway? also are guardrails not so common in this environment? Looks still fancy though!

@Silvarret Could you please tell me what are the mods you are using to construct all the things you do? Like the roads, the routes, parks, signs, grounds painting... I saw that you have so many tools on your toolbar like "Move it mod" and "Find it mod" that increase this kind of tools, but I don't know the others, that's why I am asking you. :)

It's better if you imagine the trees are dancing

You Gotta make more plane coming to the airport by making airport bigger✈️

When the moon hits your eye...... + LOL

How do you put those airport markings on the runway? Since they are placed under transportation not props, i can't place them on roads or runways.

Was hoping to see some aircraft but i guess the airport is not open yet ;)

Which mods are used for the airport/taxiways/roads here? I am a really big fan of airports and the ingame one doesn't seem very good to me.

Which mods and objects do you use in your city and where can I find them in the steam workshop ?

bro, amazing work, can you tell me which mods do you have?

Shouldnt there be a pedestrian bridge or tunnel to get straigth to the office complex across the road? Now they have to walk really far, seems like it would be one.

Amazing!!!!!

CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND THIS MOD PACK AND ASSESTS!!!

How have you sunken the concrete supports at 7:54 ? Mine always pops up on the surface again, once I release the PgDown button ~.~ Anyway, a beautiful city. Fascinating, what all these mods combined may create - with the creativity of the author ofcourse.

Amar City, maybe not needing an airport? There's an airport out in the middle of basically nowhere where I live. Then again, that's midwestern America, so your mileage may vary.

don't like how everything is so high contrast, a real city is all grey and some blue with little green lol

Holy Cow, for a second there i saw big office building from my home city...Im shocked *-*

YES!!

The problem that i've got while building an airport is that there are many buildings, but all in all they dont fit at all. Looking at airports like the düsseldorf international airport or any other "big" airport, the buildings looks like they fit perfectly and when I place buildings for my airport, they dont fit at all very perfect.

Silv please make a new park with Dueling coasters since that option has been introduced in Spring update 1.2 of Planet coaster. Please do a new theme you've never done before, like an industrial theme with loads of pipes would be awesome.

Hi, could you tell us which is your PC configuration? I would like to know because I'm looking for a new gaming PC... thanks!!

Amazing..do you know about Transport Fever 2..?

Amar City... HA, somebody (used to) play(s) EVE Online.... heheh