Improvements on the Calais - Duisburg Road

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

Looking at the newly re-worked Duisburg city, and a new service interchange near Brussels and Rotterdam, we can notice how well designed they are, so that no traffic at all is accumulated in those hotspots where lots of traffic jams were seen. Now that these two big problems are fixed, the high influx of players exiting faster than before from Duisburg is so much, that the railroad crossing and service station near Brussels cannot resist so many traffic coming from that side. That makes it common for players coming from Duisburg, heading to Calais, having to wait nearly 10 minutes to cross the service station or 30 minutes to cross the railroad crossing. Those huge queues can be mostly seen almost every day between 17:00 UTC and 20:00 UTC. Meanwhile, trucks coming from Calais have a much smaller or no queue at all, specially in the railroad crossing. That's because the Calais exit was not been reworked, while the service interchange in brussels, as well as the new duisburg revamp, increase the speeds at which people enter the c-d road.

 

So what is the solution? I think the current railroad looks great, it would be a bit sad to remove it, so in my opinion, reducing the ammount of trains that go through it would be a great solution. Each 30 seconds (if not wrong), a train passes. I would increase that time to 5 minutes or something more reasonable, so that no big queues are formed.

On the other hand, we have the service station near brussels. I personally don't have a solution for that, but you guys have done reworks on the c-d road before and have always worked really well.

 

Why should we fix these problems? Well, people transiting this road want it to be fluent. Although we all know the amount of crashes that there are in these road, those are natural situations and get solved really quick. What is not natural, are these 40 minute queues to cross a railroad or having 10 kilometres of trucks waiting to pass a service station. The solution is making this road a new highway, but that would be boring. Instead, it would be better to make the intersections and hot-spots capable of receiving the huge amounts of traffic that TruckersMP has.

[Interstate Nomad]

The traffic congestions at the railroad crossing and other locations are primarily a result of the high volume of road traffic.

A reduction of the number of trains therefore won't have a significant positive impact on the traffic situation.

 

 

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

Hey blabberbeak. Thanks for participating in this thread. 

I mean, of course it would have a significant positive impact on the traffic situation in the railroad crossing. If you have trains constantly passing through and you reduce the number of trains that pass, the queues will be much shorter (depending the ammount of trains that would go through after the fix). This is because there should be enaugh time for the queue to clear up before a train passes. Currently, the queues don't have the needed time to clear up before crossing the railroad, so a bigger queue is formed progressively. 

 

 

[3749771]

Your idea sounds like a positive way to reduce traffic jams.

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

3 hours ago, Werzey* said:

Your idea sounds like a positive way to reduce traffic jams.

Thanks man! Of course, the ones that will surely know how to handle it appropiately are the TMP team, but our job now is to claim for a better truffic flow at the road, which means, more fun!!

[[S.PLH]Warrior]

Perhaps tweaking the intersection is better and quicker solution then building something from scratch. i would love when the traffic lights can register the traffic density so it would give priority on the amount of traffic waiting before traffic light. the only downside is that other traffic waiting longer.

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

19 hours ago, [S.PLH]Warrior said:

Perhaps tweaking the intersection is better and quicker solution then building something from scratch. i would love when the traffic lights can register the traffic density so it would give priority on the amount of traffic waiting before traffic light. the only downside is that other traffic waiting longer.

Which intersection do you mean? I was talking about the gas station near Duisburg and the railroad crossing lol 

[Be4rdy]

no point asking this isnt going to happen.

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

5 hours ago, Be4rdy said:

no point asking this isnt going to happen.

Who says lol

[Niuro]

On 3/3/2023 at 4:30 PM, Werzey* said:

Your idea sounds like a positive way to reduce traffic jams.

But is it not the traffic jam the main point of the place?
I do agree that the 30-ish seconds is way too fast in between trains. 60 sec. to 100 sec. is more viable solution to resize the jam lenth. And will allow the gas stations to have a better flow. 

[ARG - Ivo Trucking]

1 hour ago, Niuro [BG] said:

But is it not the traffic jam the main point of the place?
I do agree that the 30-ish seconds is way too fast in between trains. 60 sec. to 100 sec. is more viable solution to resize the jam lenth. And will allow the gas stations to have a better flow. 

Your solution seems good, increasing the time in which trains pass. But keep in mind that the gas station problems are caused because they are designed for less traffic. If you want to solve that problem, New gas stations with higher capacity should be made.

 

Thanks for participating in the topic! Let me know what you think about this reply.

[Niuro]

8 hours ago, ARG - Ivo Trucking said:

Your solution seems good, increasing the time in which trains pass. But keep in mind that the gas station problems are caused because they are designed for less traffic. If you want to solve that problem, New gas stations with higher capacity should be made.

 

Thanks for participating in the topic! Let me know what you think about this reply.

I am well aware of the causes and the reasons, but 5 mins. for the crossing is way too long and will lead to more problems.

[Phon]

Hey,

 

We recently addressed one of your points raised which was the train crossing and we decreased the frequency of the crossing.

 

Since we are always monitoring and discussing what sort of changes we should make to the CD road, I will mark your suggested as Accepted although I cannot guarantee it will be specifically what you have suggested.

[Phon]

// Accepted