Transportation in Uber Urban is a crucial part to managing a financially and resourcefully successful city. As your city expands, you will have two distinct types of transportation: passenger transport, and cargo transport. Passenger transportation will fulfil your citizens transport need and will alleviate traffic. Cargo transport will allow you to either export goods for a profit, or import goods at a cost. It is crucial, the larger a city grows, to ensure that it has a sufficient supply chain set up, and that no buildings are lacking resources. The transportation types currently implemented in Uber Urban are: ground, rail, water and air transport.


Ground transport will consist of bus terminals and bus stops for passenger transport, along with truck depots for resource export and import. Ground transport will be the first unlocked transport type, and subsequently will be the most limited in terms of its capacity.

(Truck Depot)

Rail will be unlocked next and will consist of rail tracks, passenger stations, and cargo stations. Rail will have a higher maintenance and construction cost than ground transport, but will allow more passengers and cargo to be transported. The price per passenger transported on rail will be lower than that of ground transport. Train tracks can also intersect roads as shown in the picture below

(Rail Crossing)

Next, water transport will be unlocked. Water transport will also only be available where there is costal space and will consist of a cargo dock, and a passenger ferry terminal. Below is a picture of the cargo dock.

Lastly, air transport will have a cargo airport, a regional passenger airport and an international passenger airport. Air travel will be the highest capacity form of transportation, and will therefore be the most expensive to build and maintain.

The transportation system in Uber Urban is a very important part of the game that is heavily intertwined with the resource and government systems, which both will be discussed in future posts. If you have any recommendations or comments please feel free to let me know, I'm always open to new suggestions!

Over the past few months, Uber Urban has been dramatically redesigned, with all new zoning tools, new government mechanics, as well as new trade and financial mechanics. Within the coming week, an update to the demo will be launched, allowing anyone to try out the new features.

Version 0.5 of the demo will likely be the last major demo update done as the game nears its launch of early-mid 2025. One of the major new features in version 0.5 are the maps and objectives. Currently, the demo is limited to only the tutorial map, but the full game will include an expansive amount of unique maps, each with their own terrains and challenges.

As with any major update, I would greatly appreciate any feedback on problems you may encounter, or future ideas for features that can be added. If you have any comments to leave about the game, please do so in the Steam community page.

Thank you for reading, and now go try the demo!