Overview: City and District Policies

Vehicle Restrictions

• Bike ban on sidewalks (After Dark DLC)

  • Cyclists cannot use sidewalks (pavements) and must instead use bike paths or dedicated cycle lanes

  • Can cause more road traffic as cims resort to using their cars or taxis

  • See also: Encourage biking

• Combustion engine ban (Green Cities DLC)

  • Prevents combustion engine cars from using the roads

  • Can push more cims, particularly tourists, to use public transport

  • See also: Electric Cars policy

• Heavy traffic ban

  • Blocks cargo vehicles from using the roads

  • Similar to TM:PE cargo vehicle restriction, but applied to a district instead of individual roads

• Old town (After Dark DLC)

  • Only residents can use the area for motor vehicles

  • Blocks non-local traffic

  • Also blocks some public transport vehicles (likely a bug, see #371)

Transport preferences

• Come one, come all (Stadiums in Match Day DLC)

  • This is actually a Stadium policy

  • When enabled, cims will prefer public transport when attending matches at the stadium

• Encourage biking (After Dark DLC)

  • Cims try to cycle more often, reducing road vehicle usage

  • See also: Bike ban on sidewalks

• Electric cars (Green Cities DLC)

  • Cims living in the area are forced to buy electric vehicles

  • See also: Combustion engine ban

• Free public transport

  • Cims much more likely to use your public transport services

  • Only applies to bus, tram, metro, monorail, and local train fares.

  • For district policies, only passengers leaving from that district will get a free ride.

  • Intercity trains, cargo trains, ships, planes and taxis will still continue to provide revenue, regardless.

• High ticket prices (Mass Transit DLC)

  • Fewer cims use public transport (so more road traffic and congestion)

• Prefer ferries (Mass Transit DLC)

  • Cims will try and use ferry service if it is available

Services

• Automated Sorting (Industries DLC)

  • Increase mail capacity by 20%

  • May increase number of mail vans, may reduce number of mail lorries.

• Fast Recovery (Natural Disasters DLC)

  • No searching for survivors after disasters

  • Fewer disaster recovery vehicles on the roads

  • Road blockages due to collapsed buildings can be cleared faster

• Free WiFi (Industries DLC)

  • Reduce mail accumulation by 15%

  • Fewer postal service vehicles in those areas

• Harsh prison sentences (After Dark DLC)

  • Reduces crime rate

  • Fewer police vehicles in those areas

• Helicopter priority (Natural Disasters DLC)

  • Police, fire and ambulance services will dispatch helicopters to the area, instead of road vehicles

  • Most effective in remote areas that would take long time to reach by road vehicles

• Park maintenance boost (Park Life DLC)

  • Increases Park Maintenance vehicles' shift length by 50%

  • Possibly more park maintenance vehicles on the roads

• Recycle garbage (Park areas in Park Life DLC)

  • Decrease garbage accumulation by 20% for the Nature Reserve buildings.

  • Fewer garbage trucks in those areas

• Recycle Plastics (Green Cities)

  • More goods produced at recycling plants = more trucks spawned

• Recycling

  • Slightly reduced garbage accumulation

  • Fewer garbage trucks on your roads

Transport patterns, volume and congestion

• Ad campaign (Arenas in Concerts DLC)

  • More visitors to festivals

  • Make sure you have good public transport, and/or plenty of car parking!

• Advanced Automation (Industry areas in Industries DLC)

  • Increase industry production output by 10% = more cargo vehicles

• Advertisement campaign (Parks) (Park areas in Park life DLC)

  • 20% more visitors to park area

• Advertisement campaign (Varsity) (Campuses in Campus DLC)

  • Draws 20% more visitors to arenas on campus

• Airplane Tours (Sunset Harbor DLC)

  • Increases entertainment and city attractiveness

  • Likely to pull in more tourists, also more leisure travel.

• Anti-Slip Studs (Winter maps in Snowfall DLC)

  • Less elderly injuries = fewer ambulances/hearses

• Automated toll

  • Faster passage through toll booths (less congestion)

• Big business benefactor

  • High density commercial buildings double their sales

  • (Not tested yet) More cargo deliveries are required

• Boost connections (Park Life DLC)

  • 20% more outside traffic (more traffic and congestion)

• Education Boost

  • Cims prefer education to work

  • May increase traffic near education buildings, may reduce traffic near industry areas

• Improved logistics (Industry areas in Industries DLC)

  • Extractors and processors store 20% more stuff

  • Can increase or reduce cargo traffic flows depending on how your industry is set up

• Improved Work Safety Supervision (Industry areas in Industries DLC)

  • Better healthcare = fewer ambulances/hearses

• Industrial space planning

  • Doubles goods from industrial buildings = more cargo vehicles

• Industry 4.0

  • Increased production output by 50% = more cargo vehicles

  • Reduces workplaces by 30% / zoned industry = fewer cims travel to industry

• Lightning rods (Natural Disasters DLC)

  • Less building fires during thunderstorms = fewer fire engines

  • Fewer blocked roads due to building fires

  • See also: Smoke detector distribution

• Main Park (Park areas in Park Life DLC)

  • Increases number of visitors to park

• Match Security (Stadiums in Match Day DLC)

  • Less crime = fewer police and prison vehicles

• Night tours (Park areas in Park Life DLC)

  • Park gets 30% more custom at night (more traffic)

  • Note: Not sure if it actually affects traffic that much

• NIMBY (After Dark DLC)

  • Leisure shuts down at night (less traffic)

• Pet Ban

  • Slightly less garbage = fewer garbage trucks

• Prefer parks (Park Life DLC)

  • Parks, Plazas and Park Areas draw 10% more visitors

• Recreational Use

  • Slightly more tourists

  • Slightly fewer criminals = fewer police vehicles

• School's out (After Dark DLC)

  • Cims prefer work to school

  • May increase traffic near workplaces, may reduce traffic near education buildings

• Small Business Enthusiast

  • Small businesses increase sales = more cargo vehicles

• Smoke detector distribution

  • Significantly reduced fire risk = fewer fire engines

  • Fewer blocked roads due to building fires

  • See also: Lightning rods

• Smoking Ban

  • Slightly better health = fewer ambulances/hearses

• Studded tires (Winter maps in Snowfall DLC)

  • Snow doesn't slow down traffic speeds as much

  • See also: Road Conditions and Maintenance

• Student Healthcare (Campus areas in Campus DLC)

  • Slightly better health = fewer ambulances/hearses

• Tourist Travel Card (Sunset Harbor DLC)

  • The city will receive 8% more tourists.

• VIP (Natural Disasters DLC)

  • Limits emergency shelter use to local cims

See also:

Settings:

• Gameplay Settings

• Policies Settings

Toolbar:

• Parking Restrictions

• Vehicle Restrictions

Info views:

• Public Transport

• Traffic

• Traffic Routes Info View

Mods:

• Real Time - Cims get daily schedules, creates rush hours

• Optimized Outside Connections - helps tame traffic spawned at outside connections

• Rebalanced Industries - tames industry area traffic

• Realistic walking speed - makes cims walk at human speed