End station

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Gameplay

End stations can be used by buses, trolleys, trams, trains and metros, each whith their own end station type.

Vehicles for passenger transport such as buses, trolleys and metros run on the basis of a line spacing approach as standard. With line spacing, these means of passenger transport are equally distributed over the entire length of the route, vehicles drive at an equal distance from each other. The disadvantage of line spacing is that if one of the vehicles has to refuel or if there is another delay on the route, the vehicle or vehicles behind that vehicle will slow down. The vehicles slow down but the travel time of workers doesn't slow down, as a result of which the workers arrive later or cannot even go to work because of the maximum travel time.

With end stations you can overcome the issue of vehicles for passenger transport driving slow and therefore workers will arrive in time on their work. With an end station you can space out vehicles evenly. The end station needs to be placed somewhere at the end of the line, because the end station will become the final stop, before the vehicles go to the bus platform, train platform or metro station to pickup workers. Therefor you have to add the end station as the last stop in the bus line schedule. The vehicles wait at the end station as long as it's needed for the whole line to be spaced out evenly.

Each end station has two settings for 'time gap mode':

• Variable time - The time between departures for vehicles for passenger transport is calculated by the game.
• Fixed time - Configurable time setting in seconds, set how many seconds there will be between departures for vehicles for passenger transport.

Note

• Buses can refuel at an end station, doesn't count for trolleys and metros because they run on electricity.
• For buses line spacing doesn't work on dirt roads, because the minimum speed of buses is 30 km/h.
• Fixed time works very well when you have several different lines using the same end station, so that there will always be workers waiting at the platforms.
• Use fixed time for not clogging up the end station.

There are four types of end stations:

• Bus end station (small)
• Bus end station (large)
• Trolleybus end station
• Tram end station
• Railway end station
• Metro end station