Using SEGREGATED HIGHWAYS to reduce traffic congestion! Mini Motorways! 

The difference between traffic lights and roundabouts is that roundabouts are more efficient but lights take up less space. This makes lights a viable option when you need to reduce traffic in a space that is too crowded with buildings to fit a roundabout. That dark blue route that was to small to fit a roundabout was a perfect example for traffic lights

Once in a while it might be helpful to just DELETE EVERYTHING and insert a more planned layout. And don't be afraid to use extra road to fill spaces you don't want things to spawn in

Alternate title: "Man yells about how roundabouts are superior for 20 minutes but only uses 1"

I'd like to see him pause everything once the crazy starts, clear the whole map, and redraw the roads I think that may be the trick to fixing getting stuck like that

Traffic lights CAN be useful on crossroad junctions when you’ve run out of roundabouts, they reduce lengthy congestion with short bursts of hold up

"Is segregation good?" Depends, in society? No In roadworks? Yes

I would like to throw my hat in the ring for good tips: Tip 1: Control Spawns. Use your excess roads to prevent supermarkets and houses from appearing in places you don't want them to. Also, its generally a good idea to place roads in one-tile gaps to make sure that you can funnel a road through that intersection later without it possibly getting blocked. Unlike people are stating in the comments, THIS IS NOT A BUG. This is an intentional mechanic to make sure that you can't get screwed over by some bad placement RNG, and really its just to make things in general a bit less messy. Tip 2: Segregate Colors AND Businesses. You have a decent grasp of the first concept, but not much of the other one. The delivery nodes aren't queued by houses, they're just nodes that are created by the supermarkets themselves. This means that sometimes, its way better to COMPLETELY segregate off say 2 houses just for a single supermarket, or 4 or 5 for a cinema, rather than combine all the houses for all the businesses on one road. Note, that the number of houses required increases with distance traveled, but you get a general feel for how many you need when you play the game more. Tip 3: Motorways. I think the general consensus from gameplay I've seen from other players is that you ALWAYS take motorways. They can act as a bridge in a pinch, and are basically an infinitely long road. Using these motorways is generally divided between necessity and luxury (necessity is that there is NO way for a business to be fed without one, where as luxury denotes that it only speeds up deliveries, although there is somewhat viable alternative routes.) Luxury motorways can generally be removed and repurposed if need be. That being said, its not all about motorways, especially later in the game when you get introduced to new terrain types. Tip 4: Neighborhoods. You should understand this one, being a highway engineer. When it comes to neighborhoods, you want to feed them into an arterial road rather than make the neighborhood an arterial road. This helps to improve congestion on multi color roads. Tip 5: Control the flow. Controlling the flow is really only applicable in scenarios where more than one color is on a road. Lets take this game for example, with the area using the yellow supermarket with a light blue cinema. Ideally, the way you want to approach this is instead of doing what you did, you want one color coming in from each side of the zone, rather than both colors coming in from one specific side. DO NOT make traffic flow through parking lots. It makes parking lots incredibly slow and congested, so doing the above makes them much more feasible. These are all my quick tips for the game. I know that when I started playing this game, the most I could ever hammer out is around 1000 trips. Following these tips however, it was plausible for me to reach 5000, and I think with better reinforcement of these methods it would be possible to get way higher scores.

I love how he calls each color something completely different than what he last called it every few sentences.

Early in the game you usually have a bunch of road tiles and small map, so I don't know if anybody does that, but you can somewhat control where you want houses to spawn by placing road tiles where you do not want any spawns occur. Hint - put road tiles behind already spawned houses, so you don't have to do these big loops to connect them to neighborhood.

Man, watching you panic and fall apart is a hilariously good time! By the way, if you want to know how to break 5k in MM, you're almost there. You have the right idea, but you haven't taken it to the proper conclusion: You don't segregate by color. You segregate by destination. It doesn't matter if you have two red destinations in similar places on the map - EACH should have its own housing cluster feeding it on its OWN LINE. This is very meta, but, the way this game works is the game will spawn a pip and the closest house to that pip will respond - simple, right? Wrong. See, if you have two houses that can feed a supermarket perfectly fine, but a pip spawns while all 4 cars are on the road for any reason, it will reach out to the next house in the chain. By doing so that makes the cars that are returning now "free" to go to other pip requests on the road - EVEN IF THEY ARE MUCH FARTHER AWAY. This causes inconsistent traffic and is why you can have a housing cluster of 8 houses unable to feed one IMAX that's on the same line - because cars from other houses are all driving there or are on the road, or worse on their way back. Ideally, you want a housing "cluster" of 8 houses all with driveways facing each other (making a *) with a motorway out directly to an IMAX, while local traffics are belt-fed individually to each destination. Don't just split the colors, split the destinations. Traffic lights Vs. Roundabouts - Ultimately you will ideally have NEITHER of these used in your city. With that said both can be used early game: Traffic lights are BEST used when you have one HEAVY line of traffic and one LIGHT line of traffic. For example if you are forced to create an intersection with 2 houses feeding a market against a line of 4 houses feeding a cinema. Because the cross traffic is infrequent, the traffic light can keep both moving at nearly full speed. The SECOND use for a Traffic Light is when you have a house that is placed directly on the street creating a crossroad (all traffic slows down at crossroads, so you want to have as few of these as possible) and you have no space to turn it to get it off the road. Putting a traffic light there allows cars to drive at full speed without slowing down as they pass the house. Roundabouts are interesting in Mini Motorways - Roundabouts, unlike Traffic lights, are able to handle medium traffic. You use these for two reasons - 1 to control the spawns of businesses and houses (as they take up 9 squares each), 2 to filter traffic to destinations. You should NEVER build a roundabout when there is going to be heavy traffic, let alone cross traffic. Roundabouts in this game get choked up when cars are in it, and that causes EVERY SINGLE OTHER CAR trying to get into the roundabout to STOP AND WAIT for the congestion to clear. TLDR - Segregate by destination, not color. Group your houses into ONE driveway if possible (as cars only slow down at intersections). Motorways are life - Feed them DIRECTLY from a housing cluster to an IMAX. Always feed a destination by the closest housing group possible (as the game progresses newer houses may spawn closer). Good luck!

Man I really like this dude and his commentary, “that looks like brioche on top of the supermarket, now we just need the ham colored supermarkets and we can mix and match!” (This is not an exact quote, but it conveys the same main message. He’s really funny and it’s editited in a way where it’s not boring to watch).Overall fantastic job!

Can't wait for my local Tesco to turn into an Imax cinema.

Traffic lights have helped traffic flow when my motorways get more spaghetti and harder to segregate. Forcing traffic from a stop sign mentality to traffic lights actually saved my run for another 500 trips. Then 8 different places pinged and I had an overload of not knowing what to do to fix it.

Mini motorways: I am the most addictive to real civil engineer Minecraft: For now…

The other element of segregation you are missing is segregation of houses for specific jobs. Instead of all of 1 color being connected, you should try to only connect the houses to their specific place of work. Keep each shop satisfied and connect additional houses elsewhere

Ahh yes, Shutting down the whole city that have been paid about $10million dollars for road because that only one dude that came to the IMAX cinema late.

You are possibly the best man to play this.

Traffic lights do help minimally, they're slightly better than a regular intersection but any other option is better

I love how he changed it form "using segregation" to "using segregated highways"

Sometimes I forget your videos are edited, timing is so smooth! Great commentary, great editing, and super soothing voice. It's like you decided to make ASMR funny. Love this series, finally decided to subscribe 😁

Epicly pro tip: segregate different businesses, not just colors

Traffic lights are good in really crowded junctions. They usually clog and 1 car can sit there entire week. Traffic lights are usless early game but if you pay attention to crowded junctions, you can see the traffic jam and you should use traffic lights there. Hope this helps :)

Civil engineers should try the strategy of building road ‘X’s in real life so they can control where houses are built

This is quality. Very rare to see youtubers playing games like this and actually understand what’s happening. Plus the commentary is simply perfect.

I wondered if I was gonna get burnt out on your commentary style after watching so many videos, then you started talking about brioche and I realised *nope this is still great*.

I feel like traffic lights are for when you need to "cross the streams" so to speak. You maintain color separation, but you can still cross independent lines.

"I did worse that a very soft pp." - Real civil engineer 2021

Segregation of colors isn't all that you can do... Youcan fully even segregate malls of same color Basically every supermarket has it's own set of houses (and then you can do switcharoo with same colored houses if you need to direct traffic to one mall or the other)

"peace, love and motorways", you sound like mumbo jumbo in the new season of hermitcraft, lol

This channel strikes me as one that will have millions of subs in a year or two

I was talking with a friend, about theoretical engineer paradise: for even the smallest ditch a bridge is made to cross it, buildings are function first, and the roads are unconnected. It would be beautiful.

Your voice is like a lullaby I swear I almost fall asleep every time I watch, not from boredom however

Your pronunciation of Tanzania is a first. Never heard that one before!

You should do a mini motorway competition against other youtubers like: aliensrock, blitz, dangerouslyfunny etc.

“Hello, fellow engineer” is how I will greet anyone from now on.

RCE: “Hello fellow engineers!” Me: Maybe…I am an engineer…

A tip: If you get a group of the same colour house, divide/seperate them so some of them will go to other shopping mall and make sure they dont go on the same road tiles. Also you can change the direction of the house

I love how you call these buildings supermarkets and cinemas, but there actually are just skyscrapers (look at the shadow) edit: but please still cal them supermarkets and imax cinemas

Just some advices: 1/You have to put limit to houses that means no open roads in front of them. Just groups of 4 to 6 houses straight to their defined supermarket. 2/If you let open roads in front of houses, even if they have the same color, and let them a choice of going left or right, they are going to make a mess and you will have congestion. 3/Be simple and do not be affraid to pause and think it out. It may be longer but it will pay on the long run. 4/This game is not as realistic as your engineer brain thinks and you can always add/delete roads on the go. 5/Keep this series going! I love it! Cheers

Motorways stay in place temporarily while you move them. You can double or even triple the amount of motorways you are using by pausing and moving them frequently

Hey look, you went almost an entire video without any reference to the strongest shape but there it was at the very end. You just can't escape it!

RCE!! im loving your channel, just found you recently and im definitely gonna stay here for the ride. Keep at it man :D

Your videos help me sleep. I just put then on play and listen to them while trying to fall asleep because your voice is so soothing

Of course this gets onto trending, this game is incredibly incredibly fun to watch because it's different EVERY time. Plus your commentary and gameplay strategies make it incredibly fun to watch and listen too, I really enjoy watching you play this so please do play more!

"I hope you guys like each other" had me screaming lol

Thank you for introducing this game to me. I was immediately hooked.

3:35 We sell the exact same thing as the other supermarket but we charge 30% more because we're further away and you'll think it's better because it cost more! A win win!

12:35 Technically, if city code will allow it, building your house underneath a road like that would save you ALOT on your electricity bill, especially in a place like Arizona. Shade in the shade

PIKACHU, USE SEGREGATION! IT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE

Finally, been waiting for this!

Something about your videos and your voice playing this game has just been beyond calming, like a nice little meditation idk why, but now im addicted

A favorite of houses that I've found is "What's the most isolated place I can go?" Really like to do this when I can't destroy trees!

The only use I've seen for traffic lights is when you have to have a 4-way intersection and don't have room for a roundabout. But even then, you're better off trying to avoid a 4-way intersection anyways.

I didn’t know this guy before but every time i see one of these I immediately click.

I don’t know why but watching you play this game is the most satisfying thing to watch.

I appreciate that you care about the well-being of the people in the houses, the sizes of their yards, their gardens, etc.

“Peace, Love And Motorways”, would actually be a really good episode title (Simplicity has a charm of its own)

Traffic lights good when you dont have room for a roundabout

My great grandfather worked on the captain William more bridge in Skagway Alaska years back, it's a (small) asymmetrical suspension bridge :) you really gave me an appreciation for bridge construction

I think the biggest next step up is counting houses and splitting further. Like 1-2 houses for a square and 3-4 houses for a circle with more needed for traffic / later game.

I got Apple Arcade just to play this!!! I love this game

Near the end you had a huge yellow development next to the failing market but used a motorway to take another reflow development across town. In that instance it's better to redo the roads completely. For the markets you really only need 2 or 3 houses and the rest could have been directed to the other 2 yellow markets they were connected to.

Truth: you've been bingeing on this series for the past hour or so. Absolutely loving your content and commentary!

why is this so entertaining? Like it's a game about highways

"This would make a fantastic series"

The out of context complications are going to be the most cursed things ever

"And we have our 1st IMAX cinema" The light blue IMAX cinema (who was the 1st) "hello darkness my old friend"

the way he was just like tan-zaaaaayyy-kneee-ahhhh

RCE: "There, now all the colors are segregated." white U.S. viewer: *sweats nervously*

nice

17:59 "All right, everything else looks okay, I'm *scamming!* It looks good." - Real Civil Engineer (2021)

Racial segregation in video games is a growing danger "VIDEO GAMES CAUSE VIOLENCE" love this game keep up the work

Traffic lights are actually really efficient when u intentionally make a crossroads . Three advantage they have over roundabouts are roundabouts can get cluttered when many things r connected to it but traffuc lights will always let atleast some of the vehicles. You can also put them in much more narrow spaces add you get multiple of them when u get them.

“No mixing of colours” Ok

Just saying the blue was the first to upgrade to the imax cinema. Love ur vids.

I like that the logic of this game is that the people in the houses revolve their shopping habits around what the shops tell them to as opposed to the shops being the ones having to keep up with customer demand

"Apparently it's in egypt"

You should play beamng drive, it is a very detailed soft body physics based vehicle simulator

I actually found you through that trending video, loved the content so much that I went back and watched p much everything, loved the power washing and lawn mowing. (Learned some stuff too, especially about mowing)

I like your vibe in these videos. You're like a more relaxed version of Spiffing Brit.

39 sec and 39 likes

"keeping colors segregated." let's cancel him! /s

15:30 the music is from Yiruma - River Flows in You. For anyone that wondered 😊 (atleast that is what this reminds me off) still check out the song tho. And correct me if im wrong.

G'day, discovered your videos recently and loving them! Great personality and funny commentary! Roundabouts are the best

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: "the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left".

Even if houses have 10 imax cinemas with a 200% off every item next to their doorstep, they can still choose to take a 10 hour heavy-traffic route across the map to a different store so you can just only connect in enough houses for each store, because if you have everything connected they will go across the whole map, maybe split up big neighborhoods to allocate half and half to different stores?

Traffic lights are helpful to actually reduce congestion at 4 way intersections. If you pay close attention all cars will slow way down when nearing a 4 way intersection before proceeding no matter if there is traffic or not, but once you place a traffic light if their way is green they will speed through it!

6:57 congrats on being the first one to become and IMAX, red! Meanwhile light blue… 😂

I was waiting for what you did at 9:05 for like 5 minutes...I'm so glad you finally saw that 😜

Watching you has forced me to get this game and helped me a lot. All I know is segregation of colors and buildings is key and motorway is precious.

I bought the game last night after watching all your Mini Motorways videos and watching all of your City Skylines videos and took a bunch of notes - managed to get to 2203 points on the first level first try!

I don't even like this game. In fact, I have never even played it. I just like watching you play. Much more satisfying. Thanks bud.

Up your segregation game too. Trips pull the closest house. When possible, dedicate sets of houses to specific fix destinations, even of the same color. Angle houses the direction of travel instead of 90° intersections. Traffic lights are good for two sets where you can get a perpendicular I terse ruin if two dedicated paths (top-bottom red, left-right yellow). Give them a few squares of path between the light snd destination. Use extra roads to block inconvenient lots and path spots around destination corners. Grouping neighborhoods into subgroups of 3 helps keep them from getting bogged down.

I love how absolutely obsessed you are with these kinds of games, really shows you chose the right job (:

Definitely want to see more of this. And mini metro. Love this style of game. Do more!

Greetings from Mexico :) , Im an aerospace engineer and never stoped to think the huge amount of work involved in motorway building. By the way, I find your videos and content ver cool mate, keep it up :D

Segregation strats really work! I made sure the streams never cross and everything works dandy until it doesn't.

I love throughout this whole video you didnt notice the Light Blue Supermarket turn into a Light Blue IMAX Cinema

you deserve the success, a great content creator, funny, smart, and good taste in games

Traffic light is useful sometimes. It's like 1/3 efficiency of roundabout when there is crossroad You can segregate between the same color too. Like your start, you could actually split the load of 1 red house for 1 store, and another 2 for another store