Roadway construction

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Roadways make for a good starting network as they are quick, cheap, and easy to build. A roadway network will not be as profitable as a good railway network. However, feeder services built out of roadways can effectively complement a train network.

Contents 1 Roadway construction toolbar 1.1 Types of roadways 2 Building road vehicles 3 Building Trams 4 Building one-way roads 5 See Also

[edit] Roadway construction toolbar

Click the roadway build button on the menu bar to display the roadway construction toolbar.

Functions of the buttons (from left to right):

Button	Action	Shortcut	Description
	Build road buttons	1, 2	Builds a road or tramway in the selected direction; you can click and drag.
	Clear land button	3	Clears tiles.
	Build depot button	4	Opens the depot window for you to orient and build a depot.
	Build passenger station button	5	Opens the bus stop window for you to orient and build a bus stop or passenger tram station.
	Build freight station button	6	Opens the truck station window for you to orient and build a truck stop or freight tram station.
	Build bridge	B	Allows you to build a bridge.
	Build tunnel	T	Allows you to build a tunnel.
	Toggle clear	R	Select another tool and then this to remove that item.

[edit] Types of roadways

To select which type of roadway to build, click and hold the roadway build button in the main menu.

• Normal roads - Trucks and buses run on this roadway.
• Tramways - Trams run on this roadway.
• Dual purpose roadway - Allows travel of trucks, buses and trams. Build a tramway line on top of a road to make this type.

[edit] Building road vehicles

To build a road vehicle, place a depot and then click it. You will be presented with the depot window. Select "Build new vehicles" and a new window will pop up with a list of vehicles. Select one and click "Buy Vehicle" at the bottom of this window. The vehicle will appear in the depot window and the vehicle's control window will open. Give it orders or refit it as necessary, then click on the red "Stopped" button to get it rolling!

[edit] Building Trams

To build a tram, first ensure you have some tram vehicle GRF files installed. Then, place a Tramway depot, construct a vehicle by clicking New Vehicles, then select a vehicle and purchase it. It will be then placed into the depot and its vehicle window will be opened. Issue orders to it, and click on the bottom bar marked "Stopped" to start the Tram. Trams can only turn around at rail end.

[edit] Building one-way roads

If you use the CTRL-key while building roads you can build one-way roads, where road vehicles can only pass in one direction. The image shows all the possible roads. The first two show the one-way in the specific directions. The third one is a both-one-way road or to be more specific, it's a blocking tile. No vehicle can cross it (as the grf shows). The last one is the default road without any one-way direction. One-way bridges are not possible (yet?).

Trams ignore whether the road is one-way or blocking. They'll always run over it in both ways.

[edit] See Also

• Road Construction:Old