Calais Cloverleaf

[el_blubb]

Currently inbound (red) and outbound (blue) traffic are crossing lanes at the Calais motorway exit. This leads to the need of lights and consequent queuing. If traffic can be kept constantly flowing in this area, the problem can be eased significantly. Luckily highway engineers got us covered.

 

 

Replace the Calais exit prefab with a cloverleaf prefab (easy solution) or build one yourself (complicated) or just copypaste one from elsewhere (intermediate).

Inbound and outbound traffic are no longer crossing lanes and there's no more need for lights. Traffic just needs to slow down to drive through one of the "leaves" which makes merging easier. It should be discussed whether distributor roads are needed.

 

This minor change solves a lot of the traffic buildup at the Calais intersection as traffic can now flow freely.

 

[Qing Shui_TMP]

On 2024/5/23 at PM6点38分, el_blubb said:

目前，入境（红色）和出境（蓝色）交通正在加来高速公路出口穿过车道。这导致需要灯光和随之而来的排队。如果该地区的交通能够保持持续流动，问题就可以大大缓解。幸运的是，高速公路工程师掩护了我们。

 

 

用三叶草预制件替换加来出口预制件（简单的解决方案），或自己建造一个（复杂），或者只是从其他地方复制粘贴一个（中级）。

入站和出站交通不再交叉车道，不再需要红绿灯。交通只需要放慢速度，才能穿过其中一个“叶子”，这使得合并更容易。应该讨论是否需要分销商道路。

 

这一小变化解决了加来十字路口的大量交通堵塞，因为交通现在可以自由流动。

 

so cool

[Al3ksik]

This is actually a great idea. I would love to see this inside the TruckersMP server's!

 

[Guest 'Николай.]

Very good suggestion! 

 

I hope it will come  

[Sunstrider]

I made a past suggestion about adding a light there.

Once 1.41 was released, SCS added it there.

 

TMP even stated they won't bother to make changes to other parts of CD. Which leaves SCS to revamp it since the junction is an outdated asset.

[Butter Bear]

This is a very good suggestion!! If you consider adding it, I believe congestion will keep me away!!

[Catonaut]

That discussion about this intersection is very old. Interestingly nothing happened till now.

 

To the topic: Well we don't actually need a full cloverleaf. You can take the current intersection and just mirror copy it. Doesn't matter what and how TMP staff will do, as long as the crossing from inbound and leaving drivers stops. Meaning the red arrow in the second picture would be already enough to fix the traffic congestion

[el_blubb]

On 6/3/2024 at 12:30 PM, Catonaut said:

 Well we don't actually need a full cloverleaf. You can take the current intersection and just mirror copy it.

 

Absolutely correct - with current traffic patterns that would totally work I thought of that as well, however, when I did browse the library, I didn't find a mirrored version of that asset (would be easiest to implement as it literally takes the same amount of space). That means TMP would have to create and maintain said asset in the long term, at least until base-game France sees a rework. At that point it might just be easier to copypasta a cloverleaf prefab in there. Let's be realistic here - this area of the game isn't really up to current standards anyway, so going cheap and dirty won't even create immersion breaking asset changes.
 

[Niuro]

It is not needed. C-D road players have not yet realized that there is a far better road that connects Bern with Klagenfurt be that a couple of times longer.