Forklift-M2K

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Author: willemdhj

Last revision: 9 Mar, 2023 at 12:05 UTC

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Lets talk about efficiency. If you look at the pics there is 1 where I named all stations so easy to explain.

Lets start with the small setup. If i want FTL station D and F load at the road cargo station and unload at a factory (not on the pic but for instance at the south side) they will first go to the cargo station, load and than drive to G,H or I to unload at the factory. After that they will look for the shortest way to the road cargo station to try and load again. The shortest raod will most likely be back trough H and than north to the cargo station. Since a cargo station can only have 1 live FLT connection per side all the FLT’s will qeue up at this point and the cargo station will there for be only unloaded by 1 FLT at a time.

In my oppinion there is a much more efficient way of uloading the road cargo station. If you dedicate FLT station D to load at the road cargo station and unload at a storrage S4 you can let the FLT’s from station G directly load from the storage and unload at a factory. This way you prevent qeueing at station H, have 3 live connections at the road cargo station and your FLT’s have to drive a minimum distance between their destinations. I tested it with 6 FLT’s and it will still qeue up between their destinations.

If you do the same for F, S2, and I while keeping FLT station H load and unload directly between the cargo staion and the factory you will have a total of 3 FLT stations (20 FLT’s) unloading the cargo station and 3 FLT stations (a nother 20 FLT) unload at a factory.

If you want to expand to the North or just have more FLT’s in the hub, no problem, just place FLT station ABC and you just got a nother 20 FLT’s that can load and unload the cargo sattion. Also you can have a 4th live connection to the cargo station (north side) whitch will improve unloading times even more.

Want to add a nother road cargo staion? no problem, you can add a nother line within 5 secs, have even more FLT’s in the same hub and still have the posibility to expand to the North, East, South and West. (Be aware that FLT station A,B,C are now in the middle. This way the can only efficiently unload at the storages. So if you want to have factories on the North side i would add a nother line of FLT stations between the road cargo and these factories) Want to add trains to the hub? go for it!

Also keep in mind that in and out bound traffic at the cargo station does not cross, so there will be no traffic jams at nearby crossroads. R1 is only used by the occational oil truck, R2 is inbound to the cargo staion and R2 is outbound. Want to head west after the cargo station? just add a the same puzzlepice as station F and instead of station D in the example and your good to go.

I also tested the max vehicel spots at a crago station size 4×4 and it can fit up to 12 spots (10 if you want to add some decoration and make it not glitch). So I also wanted to add these stations to the set to improve troughput even more.

This is the original idea for these assets. To get here I started to play with the building editor and had to start somewhere. You might not use or need them all, I already stated that in the description text. But I had to start somewhere whith the designs and wanted to make some variation’s/themes so they dont all look the same.

Now is this setup 100% efficient? hellll no! but its defenitly an improvement from whats availeble at this time. Just adding more FLT’s to a station wont help in this example.