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6-Way Intersesctions Measured and Compared

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In this guide I look at the Traffic Flow performance of 15 different 6-Way Intersections from the Steam workshop

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17. okt. 2020 kl. 4:18

1. jan. 2021 kl. 2:54

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Guide-indeks

Oversigt

Introduction

1. "Timed Traffic Lights"

2. "Large Roundabout"

3. "6-way Clover Interchange (non-DLC)" by "Lime"

4. "6 Way Raised Roundabout Intersection" by "RichAntDav"

5. "6-Way Intersection" by "Erazaa"

6. "6-way Wheel INTC v4" by "Lime"

7. "6 way highway intersection" by "siam895"

8. "6-way Snowflake INTC v2" by "Lime"

9. "6-way Turbine JCT-5" by "e_motch"

10. "6-Way Noodle Interchange" by "picklemebetty"

11. "Way Web Interchange" by "RichAntDav"

12. "EXTREME Full 6-Way Highway Intersection" by "ZaXaZ"

13. "6-Way Interchange" by "picklemebetty"

14. "6way stack interchange" by "Saladin ad-Dīn Yūsuf Osas"

15. "Snowfractal 6 way interchange" by "General Grievous"

See Also...

Conclusion

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Introduction

In this guide and the accompanying video:

I measure and rank the traffic flow of 15 different 6-way intersection designs to see how they perform compared to each other. I used 3 different traffic condition scenarios, namely, "light", "Moderate" and "Heavy".

Setup

To make the video I used Cities: Skylines from Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive. I also needed the Mass Transit mod, the Network Extensions 2 DLC, Traffic Manager President Edition (TMPE), and a small custom mod I wrote to count vehicle numbers over time.
The first 8 intersections were recorded at the Light and Moderate traffic Levels, the last 7 were recorded at the Moderate and High traffic levels.
I used TMPE to manage the lane merging of all of the intersections. With some of the intersections, the lane merging choices were obvious, with others it took multiple attempts to balance the merging requirements.

Notes

You can see from the graphs that the intersections are are built for 4-Lane (and wider) highways have an advantage when it comes to traffic flow, they can simply handle more traffic. I couldn't just restrict those intersection to 3-lane highways at their entrances/exits as they were not designed to have additional bottlenecks in those areas. So, the traffic flow scenarios are slightly different between the 3-lane highway roads and the 4-lane highway roads. They are as similar as I could make them, but not directly comparable.

1. "Timed Traffic Lights"

Video: 0:09
Size: 20 x 20
Cost: 4800
Levels: 1
Road: 6 lane city
Peak vpm: 351 vpm (Light Traffic), 430 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

2. "Large Roundabout"

Video: 0:41
Size: 60 x 60
Cost: 23760
Levels: 1
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 351 vpm (Light Traffic), 430 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

3. "6-way Clover Interchange (non-DLC)" by "Lime"

Video: 1:15
Creator: Lime
Size: 78 x 78
Cost: 76110
Levels: 2
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 449 vpm (Light Traffic), 546 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

4. "6 Way Raised Roundabout Intersection" by "RichAntDav"

Video: 1:49
Creator: RichAntDav
Size: 60 x 60
Cost: 51660
Levels: 2
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 340 vpm (Light Traffic), 709 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

5. "6-Way Intersection" by "Erazaa"

Video: 2:28
Creator: Erazaa
Size: 64 x 64
Cost: 163260
Levels: 6
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 448 vpm (Light Traffic), 751 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

6. "6-way Wheel INTC v4" by "Lime"

Video: 3:07
Creator: Lime
Size: 142 x 162
Cost: 130370
Levels: 2
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 518 (Light Traffic), 920 (Moderate Traffic)

7. "6 way highway intersection" by "siam895"

Video: 3:45
Creator: siam895
Size: 90 x 104
Cost: 147176
Levels: 4
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 529 vpm (Light Traffic), 922 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

8. "6-way Snowflake INTC v2" by "Lime"

Video: 4:22
Creator: Lime
Size:163 x 163
Cost: 171850
Levels: 3
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 532 vpm (Light Traffic), 925 vpm (Moderate Traffic)

9. "6-way Turbine JCT-5" by "e_motch"

Video: 5:00
Creator: e_motch
Size: 126 x 126
Cost: 90708
Levels: 3
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 963 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 753 vpm (HeavyTraffic)

10. "6-Way Noodle Interchange" by "picklemebetty"

Video: 5:38
Creator: picklemebetty
Size: 64 x 64
Cost: 90708
Levels: 3
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 981 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 864 vpm (HeavyTraffic)

11. "Way Web Interchange" by "RichAntDav"

Video: 6:15
Creator: RichAntDav
Size: 64 x 64
Cost: 75500
Levels: 3
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 976 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 945 vpm (HeavyTraffic)

12. "EXTREME Full 6-Way Highway Intersection" by "ZaXaZ"

Video: 6:57
Creator: ZaXaZ
Original Name: Fully connected 6-Way Interchange
Original Creator: euvier
Size: 64 x 64
Cost: 79020
Levels: 5
Asset: Asset on Steam
Original Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 3 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 1036 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 965 vpm (Heavy Traffic)

13. "6-Way Interchange" by "picklemebetty"

Video: 7:38
Creator: picklemebetty
Size: 64 x 64
Cost: 83368
Levels: 4
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 4 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 1071 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 1177 vpm (Heavy Traffic)

14. "6way stack interchange" by "Saladin ad-Dīn Yūsuf Osas"

Video: 8:24
Creator: Saladin ad-Dīn Yūsuf Osas
Size: 170 x 170
Cost: 264570
Levels: 7
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 4 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 1108 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 1308 vpm (Heavy Traffic)

15. "Snowfractal 6 way interchange" by "General Grievous"

Video: 9:02
Creator: General Grievous
Size: 80 x 80
Cost: 128830
Levels: 2
Asset: Asset on Steam
Road: 4 Lane Highway
Peak vpm: 1089 vpm (Moderate Traffic), 1319 vpm (Heavy Traffic)

See Also...

Before I get to the conclusion, please feel free to check out my other similar guides:

Conclusion

The Best Intersection:
The "Snowfractal 6 way interchange" from "General Grevious" has delivered the highest performance 6-way interchange overall.
Best Small Intersection:
The "6-Way Interchange" from "picklemebetty" was the best performing standard sized (64 x 64) intersection.
Best 3-lane Highway Intersection:
The "EXTREME Full 6-Way Highway Intersection" by "ZaXaZ" was the best Intersection for connecting to 3-lane highways.

Thanks:
To the various intersection creators, credit and links to their creations are above (Add a comment to this guide if I missed anything).
I used this map: Interchange Testing Map as a starting point for my own intersection testing map:

12 kommentarer

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k9vision 20. sep. 2024 kl. 4:16

This is wild! It made may Skylines day :)

boog.retard 28. okt. 2022 kl. 10:55

also making most of the 700+ vpm interchanges would take more concrete than the entire soviet union used in a year lmao

battlezoby 18. maj 2022 kl. 12:50

Wanted to joke about why they don't build the good one in real life, but fact is trying to follow all the damn signs to the right road slow people down. At least for new-comers, regular commuters actually get the hang of it.

74091796519793665 15. dec. 2020 kl. 3:04

Hello @ichAntDav thanks a lot for the reply. I did read your reply on youtube, very informative.

I'll wait until you publish the code and guide. So I will follow you to stay informed.

Thanks a lot. I appreciate your effort.

RichAntDav [ophavsmand] 15. dec. 2020 kl. 2:25

Hi Kottur, see my reply to Xernical on this page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HOWaFOPNlc
for some more details about the mod

RichAntDav [ophavsmand] 15. dec. 2020 kl. 0:27

Hi Kottur, yes, I've had some interest in the mod lately, so I'll publish the code in the next week or two, it's not very user friendly so I'll need to put out a new Steam guide or something so I can help people use it

74091796519793665 14. dec. 2020 kl. 7:17

Interesting work, very helpful.

Do you plan to publish the vehicles counting mod?

cstoneburner 22. nov. 2020 kl. 19:47

I'm glad you're continuing the series with 5-ways. This guide and the 8-way one are both very interesting, but I tend toward smaller cities so don't have much practical use for them. 5-way and smaller I definitely would.

RichAntDav [ophavsmand] 27. okt. 2020 kl. 13:04

Thanks General G. :-) and thank you for sharing those excellent intersections with us, the work you put into them clearly shows. I've had a go at a few large intersection myself now, so I can appreciate how hard it is to balance size, cost, performance and particularly realism.

I haven't started looking at 4-way intersections yet, but I have started looking at 5-way intersections, but it's going to take a while. I'm having to change my approach, mainly because there are a lot more intersections to get through, so it's a probably a good idea for when I get around to 4-way intersections. And yes, I've had a look at your 5-way intersections and they do look good, not sure if they're going to take the crown this time though as there's a lot more competition ;-)

Admiral Electron 26. okt. 2020 kl. 12:25

Hey Man, Nice work. I made both the winning interchange in your series so far. Apart from making the interchange conflict free (without any merging or weaving conflicts), I did put a lot of work ensuring that they're realistic without drastic slopes, sharp turn angles and extreme road curvature. Glad to see it translates well into the practice.

Let me know if you are making 4 way junction, I'll refine some interchanges I made long time ago, put some intersection markings with the new mod. It'll be a lot more relevant series considering requirement of 6-way and 8-way is very rare and doesn't occur so symmetrically.

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