Timed TRAFFIC LIGHT Tutorial! Traffic Manager: President Edition (TMPE) 

I've watched Biffa and I've watched City Planner, but YOU are teaching me solutions to things I have struggled with for a while. I am late to the Cities Skyline game so I am binge watching your videos. I'm learning so much. Thanks for the help!

The advanced settings are great when there is an intersection with trams. When a tram is waiting move to the next, and when no tram is waiting also move to the next. Set min waiting time for the phase of the trams to 2 and the one befor max at double the min of that phase.

Hi there. As they say: it is easy when you know it. I might add to that: it is easy to learn it when it is well explained. Well done. It looks complicated at first but the way you put it together, just perfect. Cheers. BeOnHedge.

I saw that UI when I first installed TMPE, and I just gave up on timed traffic lights, I never realised how easy this actually is, Thanks!

This is bonkers, I'm an architecture student and I play this game to get my creative juices flowing so I'm pretty good when it comes to aesthetics and flow and separating areas by purpose blablabla, but more IMPORTANT technical stuff like this-- EXACTLY these are my weakness, I just plonk down roundabouts and go on with my day but I do want more realistic intersections and interchanges but I'm basically a chimp with a hammer with these and suddenly I get it now, this 20min video alone felt like I had a class lecture at university today, great help, amazing production quality too!

What I have learned watching Yumbl: watch Yumbl to learn how to play C:S with mods; watch City Planner Plays to learn city planning. You guys are amazing! Props!

Came for the wizzard jingle, stayed for the great tutorials. Your content is great!

Essential viewing for TMPE users. Your tutorials are fantastic Yumbl, you’re one of the very few I find it worthwhile copying step by step to practise stuff. Keep up the good work!

Quick tip on pedestrians. You can alwas add a quick dedicated phase to them, when they all cross the road in all the directions while all the cars are waiting. For CS peds a couple of seconds would be enough, but it would ease the flow of the cars on the other phases.

The Quality of your videos is staggering. How do you only have nerly 3k subs? These videos are so good I would assume it was from a channel 50-100x your size. Keep making great content.

Now I know how to set up timed traffic lights and how to activate them. One of the most busiest intersection of city has now got less traffic. Thank you!

Thank you for the great videos! I am a relative newbie, still working on my first city, that has grown to 90k cims. Traffic has become a constant issue, so I installed my very first mod, TM:PE to help fix it. Having your clear explanations on the fundamentals and this one on timed traffic lights has been a real game changer for me. Thank you, again.

This game with mods is so huge. I built 30k population city and I can spend more than an hour just playing with traffic. Amazing. Thanks for tutorials!

This dude’s voice is so soothing. I could listen to him read an encyclopedia.

Hey there! I'm a traffic engineer and I wanted to give you props for your videos! This just happened to be the one where i left this comment on, but I am a big fan of all your videos and can't wait to see more! Your basic timed traffic light is based on the American RBC (Ring barrier controlled) method I believe. Should you be interested in learning how we manage our traffic lights in the Netherlands then hit me up! Same goes for making turbo-roundabouts, (the poorly translated) yield-plaza's, turbo-plaza's, with or without timed traffic lights and how to set them up to be monsters for throughput with contemporary design philosophy (durable, safe and future proof). In addition, let me know if you want to discuss the 'new' Dutch cities of Almere and Lelystad. These cities have been planned from the ground up and are entirely different from historical cities and American cities in how they function and are built up. Basically they started out with a complete public transport system and cycling system first, with the road system added later on. Since they are very new cities, a lot of fresh design concepts are used for them. I have sources accessible through the internet as well to show you how these cities have coped with their tremendous growth over the last few years as well. Very interesting to see entire sections of highway change in a year or two, have entirely new complexes pop out of the ground between two google maps streetview photo's. Just a quick rambling above. If you are interested, I can try making a 'response' video of sorts a lá RU-vid in the 2000's in which the above concepts are further explained and better structured.

nice, perfect tutorial how these lights work. I have alot of choked traffic on my 4 lane intersections with alot of backup through the whole city. I sat there for 5 minutes and manualy changed lights, wich let traffic flow perfectly with maybe 10 cars backing up. (when the jam cleared) cities skylines is just such a nice game. i love it

I'm glad to find somebody who makes tutorials for all this. I just got this game on the computer after playing on console for a while now, Mods are great but i certainly felt overwhelmed by all the control I have now. Looking forward to watching many of your others.

This video - just like the whole channel has been immensely helfpul, thanks!

Came for the intersections, stayed for the traffics management!

Finally watched this, and LOVE IT. FINALLY know how that tool works because of this video, and so stoked to use it. This is going to help so much. Awesome work, Yumbl! You are a legend, and killing it with these tutorials man!

Wow! So well done. I've struggled with timed traffic lights... until now. Thank you so much!

after years of playing on console, I'm overwhelmed by all the mods and you are one of the best teachers

Thanks, I also watched several tutorials on how to set this up but never understood it. This made me understand it right away, thanks man.

I’ve always wondered how these work. Very well done, thanks!

Yo you’re a hidden gem. I’ve been watching CS videos for years and just found your Diamond Interchange video today. I’m glad I did. Can anybody link to mods used? This color scheme looks amazing. Gonna binge your videos for the next week or so. Great stuff man. Great stuff

YUMBLtv I have to say I am really enjoying your videos and I only recently learned about your work thanks to the mod node controller renewal 3.0 where you created a very helpful video explaining how it works. The content creator Biffa some times used these auto traffic lights in his shows fix your city but never truly explain exactly how it worked. So I only had a limited knowledge on it and never truly understood it until I saw this video you created. Thank you again for this video and I look forward to reviewing your other videos as well.

Amazing! Thankyou I learnt so much from this Vid! I’ve been super confused using timed traffic lights for a little while and you’ve solved all my problems! Thanks!!🎉

i just commented on your video about TM:PE all together and came here after, good GOD your videos are so helpful!! thank you so much for making these! im mildly autistic and have trouble understanding a bunch of information at one time, but i was able to follow your videos! :)

This was a fantastic and practical way to show people timed traffic lights ... great job!

Interesting how traffic lights work in the US (i assume). Here in Austria the straight and right hand turn are green at the same time as the oposit street. Than straight and right turn red and left gets green. that 90° rotation to the other two streets. But maybe that all depends if the main flow is going straight or makes a turn. Anyways great video, really understandable.

Thank you very much for this video, it really helped me to understand how to work with traffic lights and it just gives another layer of depth to the game. Time for me to fix some intersections! Great video!

I really love this mod, at first when i used it i played around trying to figurę out how they work, later i figured out how phases work an the timers, got realistic junctions ust watching my buses leave the bus station and join the traffic with the trucks coming down and wait for 30 seconds just was everything to me looked so nice, i still watched the video even though i know how the mod works 😄

Bro, you are a gigachad! I've struggled my ass off to get help with this game but this tutorial is clear and concise!

This video was very helpful 👍 I like your approach to the game vs other channels who worry about deleting rocks and having to delete buildings to make adjustments. This is a video game by the way.

You earned my subscription, much respect for your dedication when doing tutorials💯

Very informative video. The timed traffic light is always confusing to me and this guide just solved it. Thank you!

Great video! I make all 4 way intersections total 65 seconds. State 1: Min 10 Max 15 (cars) N State 2: Min 10 Max 15 (cars) E State 3: Min 10 Max 15 (cars) S State 4: Min 10 Max 15 (cars) W State 5: Min 3 Max 5 (pedestrian) All Works really well for me.

Awesome video. I still get really confused, but that's a massive improvement on how I felt about doing timed lights before. It was like putting calculus in front of a goldfish. Well, the blank stare and mouth breathing part anyway.

its nice how you describe the timed traffic lights in a row, we have the same in Vienna too, there is the big road dividing inner and outer city which is called the "Gürtel" in english "belt", its a 15 km long road in the middle of the city with a ton of traffic lights, and -of course - during daytime always busy there, but if you manage to go abit over 50 km/h like 53, you can go trough all the traffic lights in one rush. Its impossible during daytime but in night hours knowing this fact, it is the quickest way trough the city. Its called the "green wave". Have tried to implement this in my cities in cities skylines too, with timed traffic lights, but never managed to do it right ;) after more than 3 traffic lights it starts to get asynchron

One obvious thing missing - the ability to allow pedestrians across half of a road, which is very useful when rotating through different allowable right turns

Man are your videos relaxing

OMG, proper lane use and ditching the vanilla all lanes do all things mechanic is so critical! I've had a few cases where traffic jams started forming in my city, and almost invariably I'd end up tracking the source of that traffic jam to some lane I'd forgotten to fix was doing left and straight or straight and right or something like that and ALL of the traffic would congest up in just ONE lane of a 6 freaking lane road! That means that multi purpose lane default was causing that road to basically lose 2/3 of it's capacity! As soon as I'd get the dedicated turning and straight on lanes, that traffic jam would start clearing up and not come back. Of course, if you have only 1 or 2 lanes each way to work with, you can't avoid having multi purpose lanes, for a standard 4 way intersection. Traffic needs to go on 3 different directions from there and with only 1 or 2 lanes to work with, something needs to get doubled up. If you have them, asymmetric roads leading into busy intersections can fix that problem by adding an extra lane into the intersection to better spread out and specialize your lanes.

I'm from Thailand and this type of interchange always amazes me.

I learned a lot from your VDO thank you so much

Amazing tutorial as usual! Congrats!

The relationship between "junction" and "conjunction" didn't happen in English but rather in Latin before both were adopted into French and then into English. In VERY rough terms you can think of them as deriving from the word for "join" as a root conjugated with a suffix roughly equivalent to "-ing" (present participle) in English and one has a prefix meaning "with". So "junction" means "joining" and "conjunction" means "joining with" which is kind of redundant since joining is inherently "with" something even when that something is itself, which is why "junction" and "conjunction" are often used interchangeably. If you really want to think about it as a compound in English then "junction" would be the root and "con-" would be a prefix.

The intersections both turning at the same time works if the time to cross the overpass is about the time it takes cycle all the phases. You could also have the intersections doing the opposite thing with each phase being longer than the time it takes to cross the overpass which I think should require less fine tuning of timing

I finally understand timed traffic light. Thanks!

Automatically adding lights using Ctrl+Click actually overrides the arrow settings you have, in some cases; I noticed in the case of four lane roads, where you can't have dedicated lanes for each direction.

answered alot of my questions, thx alot!

as always you have made it easy to understand

I never knew about the Ctrl click for adding a default traffic light. Thanks 🙏

Great tuts! love your style

I literally, right now, am in game messing with a busy intersection and discovered that Timed Traffic Lights completely fixed the issue of two opposing turn lanes having green lights, thus cars turning across each other, stopping traffic as one waits for the other. Creating timed lights with phases manually seems a bit too comprehensive for me so ctrl+clicking to auto setup one is enough for me, though I have noticed that the auto setup light gives all lanes in one direction their own turn, so traffic in one direction backs up waiting for their turn in the cycle.

The flow slider is very powerful and helps to squeeze out as much traffic as possible from an intersection that's very busy but not equally from every side and/or with inconsistent approach and turning behaviors. With it you can set min times as low as 1 and as high as 4 with little reason to increase beyond that. Maximum times can be any number since the signaling will be controlled by the flow calculations. A note: flow is set to 0.3 on auto-generated lights while it's 0.8 when starting from the blank template. A 0.5 difference might not seem like much given how far the meter goes, but it makes an enormous difference in terms of when the light changes when comparing moving traffic to waiting traffic.

Hi Yumble, you have a new subscriber "-) Love your video's, very well explained and that makes all the difference! Keep it coming!

this was great thx!!!

Very interesting presentation, as always. Your presentation style is very relaxing. First of all, for "conjunction"?, if anything, "con" would be a prefix to the base ford "junction". I've been meaning to watch this vid for a while. I spent the vast majority of my driving career in California. California allows Right On Red. Here in Germany, it's mixed. In the former East, RoR I've been told is routine. Here in the Rhineland, it's occasional. I suggest allowing RoR, it can help traffic flow a bunch, particularly with lane management, and there are prototypical examples in Real World.

You can optimize intersection if make reverse of asymetric road, so you cars can turn from both main roads.

Loving your series so far think I have watched and liked all your videos... Twice... 😁 Would love to see a series with the REAL TIME MOD.. I'd love to see how you manage that scenario and grow your city. I have learnt so much.

Thanks, I’ve been struggling with that part of the otherwise brilliant TM:PE interface 👍🏻

Oh man, you just saved me so much time!

Is there a way to detect traffic between intersections in a junction? I'm trying to make a single track railway line, and I can't use single track ai because I want to use an atmospheric single platform station

Thanks, I was a bit confused at first

aaaawesome !!!

Really great explanation of how timed traffic lights work. But I wish you would have gone a bit deeper into the more difficult stuff. For example, how to offset the timer to get a green wave for 2, 3 or more connected intersections. Or those advanced settings, which you mention at 9:18. I've been looking for information on those for so long. But there's no one out there who tells you how they work. Well...maybe that's something for another video. :) Thanks for your great work.

9:20 The first Some one is driving, you could use for Pedestrian pass as if there is someone driving, the pass can be shortest for the car to flow. The second No one is driving/waiting can be use when you want to skip the Max time on empty land.

Great video

Thank you!

“junction” is actually the root word in “conjunction,” with “con-“ being a prefix. Junction is a borrowing from Latin literally meaning “joining,” and the prefix “con-“ is also from Latin, an assimilated version of the preposition “cum,” meaning “with” (and pronounced “koom”) when used as a prefix. So a traffic junction is a “joining place” and a linguistic conjunction is a “word that joins one phrase WITH another”. Each word is used in a wide variety of other contexts too, all related to joining.

Control-click and "Add A junction " the time traffic light huh.... wow. I could've saved hours in total probably now at this point...

thanks :)

Can you not Ctrl+Click a whole road? I can click each intersection no issue, sets it up automatically. But I need a whole road to by in sync, but can't seem to figure out how to Ctrl+Click on multiple in a row. Even if I intend to customize it's a good start if I can get the scaffolding of how the AI wanted to start with.

I'm probably doing something wrong, but when I ctrl-click to make a timed traffic light, it resets my lanes to default. The default lanes make no sense for that part of town and the whole area was gridlocked in minutes. I'm guessing if I configure the lanes with the little colored lines, it will set up traffic lights for that configuration? I'll try it later this evening.

What mod do you use for your roads? Ive been trying to find a good road texture for awhile and some on steams workshop are outdated.

I'm Alabama Woodsman, I watch Biffa and City Planner. You tell us how to do the changes and the key commands to do it. Thank you. I've got a city of 63,000 that hoovers between that and 66K. I've put in a Diverging Diamond Intersection and the traffic is just sitting in one lane and back way up. Same at a couple other intersections. I have a big interchange and couple of ramps aren't angled right.

Great video. I would like to see this done on a diverging diamond interchange. Also I still have not solved the problem of traffic only using one lane! SO broken! As far as the realism the off the shared off ramps would never be allowed without some type of barrier to prevent wrong way drivers.

Does anyone know where I can get an older version of this that is compatible with v 1.8 of cities skylines? I bought the game a while ago but don't have internet on my PC to update so I have been using my phone to download mods and transfer them to my pc

what mod you use for those darker roads?

I love your videos! I also would love to know how you got those dark pavement roads. They look so crisp and clean compared to the vanilla grey.

2k subs! 🥳🥳🥳

I am learning civil engineering things here!

hey greeting to you. thanks to your info and support in your videos. i have a question and hope you will answer :D why do cars stop at crossing even if there are lights at green or when i set the crossing to go through they are stopping too, every second car will make a " security" stop xD. my english is not the best but i hope you understand my problem love your vids and god speed to you man

I put a timed light on a DDI the other night and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. The cycles were right, I could see the lights changing, but the traffic wasn't responding. Turned out that the timed light didn't override the vanilla light that had been there. So I had two lights on each intersection. Toggled the vanilla lights off and everything worked as expected. Thus I learned to always toggle lights off before adding a timed light.

nice tutorial,thank you, i played cities skyline about 2 years, but i just know this mod 2 days ago, really helped, 1 question what mod do you use to make road black ?

with timed traffic lights I actually set the minimal timer to 0, this way the mod can actually control traffic by which phase would be best, in some of my cities this made a very large difference in traffic control

I seem to have a problem with the timed traffic lights. I have watched this video to see how it works. But for some reason, when the light is green they stop and the side that has the light red go , basically passing a red light . I don’t know what I’m doing wrong

Why don’t you upgrade that assymetrical road to a 2+2 so vehicles coming into the intersection can always turn right?

For the record, "conjunction" originally comes from the Latin "conjunctio", which itself is from "coniungo", which is "con-" (with) "iungo" (unite). In this case, "junction" is the root word, and "con-" is the prefix.

Fully explicated.

what roads are you using?

Can you setup left turn signals as flashing yellow which means "yield" ?

@YUMBL, I'm sure you are not going to see a comment on this older video but I would love for my roads to look like they do in your videos.. How do you make thhose roads look like that?

i need the road asset's link please :)

Hi yumbl..where can I find those nicely black asphalted roads of yours?like your tutorials btw..

at 18:36 it looks like that's an asymmetric 2+1 lane highway being used. with the 2 lanes coming into the city street. Since all traffic at that intersection must turn right and will probably be set up, if they haven't been already, to merge into the outside lane on the city street, there really doesn't need to be 2 lanes there. If the lanes were reversed so the 2 lane side were for the traffic entering the highway, then those turning right could be allowed a permanent green as the left turns and right turns would each have their own separate lane to use and would never cross each other's paths. Then only the left turns and the straight on lanes who cross each other's paths would ever need to be stopped at any time.

I think junction is a noun, in this case abstract, and con is a prefix

damn im really a nerd for finding this really cool

Can I harmonize 2 or more lights? Just to make green-wave on the road.

How did I miss this?!