They’re all simple to implement and easy to use, though I still struggle to know when the best time is to use a roundabout versus a traffic light at an intersection. These items, along with the roads themselves, are essentially the extent of the mechanics in Mini Motorways. These pieces include roundabouts and traffic lights to help manage intersections, highways to help alleviate traffic traveling from one end of your city to another, bridges to cross bodies of water, and tunnels to pass through mountains. Roads will intersect, combine, and quickly fill with traffic.Īt the end of each week you’re given more road tiles and a choice between two unique building pieces. You only have a certain number of road tiles for every in-game week, so giving every color its own unique roads isn’t an option. Slowly more houses will appear, they’ll all be the same color at the first, but eventually new house and destination colors will also begin appearing. Once you do, cars will begin traveling back and forth between the house and the destination. Using either the left analogue stick or the touch screen you’ll need to draw a road to connect the two. Both are the same color, indicating that the occupants of this house will want to travel to that destination. However, the myriad of ways in which these mechanics can be utilized to improve the traffic flow of your city will take much longer to explore.Įach level, based loosely on the geography of a real world city, starts with one house, and one destination. It takes only a minute or two to understand the vast majority of its mechanics. In high flow situations on major roads, traffic lights are a more suitable option.Mini Motorways is a high-score based puzzle game about managing traffic in a growing city. They are safer, improve traffic flow, are cheaper than traffic lights and can be installed for use in most situations. Roundabouts do need more property to implement, however there are (usually) less approach lanes than at traffic lights reducing the cost. Over the long term, roundabouts are $5000 - $10,000 cheaper per year as there are no electrical costs involved. In these instances, traffic lights are a better option.įinally, roundabouts cost less to implement. In some instances such as on busy main roads, cars entering from the minor road would have to wait much longer for an acceptable gap to enter than it would to wait for a red light. This is especially true in low flow or uncongested traffic. Cars don’t have to wait for a green light and as such roundabouts promote continuous traffic flow. Roundabouts may also improve traffic flow. However at intersections with highly variable flow and speed limits (i.e T-intersection with 100 km/hr main road and 60 km/hr roads), traffic lights usually win. Overall, roundabouts have shown to achieve a 37 % reduction in collisions as opposed to traffic lights.
Mini motorways roundabout vs traffic light drivers#
Drivers need to slow down and think at roundabouts as opposed to trying to beat a red light. Studies have shown roundabouts are safer than traffic lights. From an engineers’ perspective, better can be defined by cost, traffic flow and safety. Better is a subjective term, and depends on what is considered ‘better’. Roundabouts vs traffic lights has always been an argumentative topic between drivers.
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