Are we getting something to make the bots stay in the green zone?
"Optimisation of logistic robot movement" should include making them a little smarter about where they try to move and when. While "staying in the green zone" would be a nice to have feature, there are tons of other simple things ...

The improved version lets 7,7 trains per lane/min pass. With a max throughput of 342 trains/min. But since the input is 346 the buffers will fill up and it won't get 6 trains ready in every lane before the next green light and the throughput will be lower. If it let's 7 trains pass through every ...

Really nice done with those combinators! I wanted to make a controllsenter, but had not gotten to that yet.

The deadlock situation can be fixed, you just have to check every output lane and block the input lane if the output lane is full.
I am working on improving it to get 346 trains/min. I'll ...

You're right, a real use-case situation where any exiting traffic might possibly get blocked would absolutely trigger huge deadlocks. I managed to make that happen accidentally even, just by adding more signals on the left turn tracks to smooth them out while fiddling with the combinators right as a ...

A high throughput 8 way intersection
It works like a 8 way road intersection, and i have no chain signals in the senter.
I don't know what you mean by an "8 way" road intersection... The contents of your blueprint string is a 4-way intersection (as are all versions of the MultiCross, and almost ...

That works really well:
Thanks! Nice recording, shows behavior for both light and heavy traffic.

hi, is there a version of this post for 3-way intersection throughput also?
I have a save where I added a very basic 3-way test profile (east, west, and south stations are used), as well as a lane ...

Windmill Mk2 modified with Merge-O-Matic exit lane optimizer, pushing two-lane performance to 93-94 TPM:

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Tested without U-turns and I borrowed the lane changer Tallinu posted to deal with the specialized rails.
Cool. :D

I'd guess the one Tallinu posted on the last page is probably pretty close to optimal, though you'd have to scale it down for a 2lane design.

Alternatively you could look at the ...

That is going to make it so much easier to change or create new templates.

Also, I've just noticed something interesting and useful about the way signals work when placed on both sides of a track, which could be used to simplify your counters, completely avoiding the need to send an R signal to ...

I've added a few of the intersections posted and one I was working on before going away which turned out to be not too far behind Windmill MK2 but more compact. Complete list: Inscribed square (aaargha), Windmill MK2 (Tallinu), Double squareabout (19wolf, Tallinu), 4-lane Multi-cross (Tallinu ...

I used 32 spawner and some circuit logic to make them interweave in an exactly timed pattern so they accelerate all the way while pairwise merging till there is a single track left. Maybe with longer acceleration one could pack the trains more dense but my setup already was HUGE. With 1:2, 2:2, 2:3 ...

The "snap to station" feature when building locomotives that was added pretty recently also makes this much less of a problem as you don't need to drive the trains around any more.
Unfortunately I'm not sure that actually helps. I know it doesn't if you're modifying an existing template train so ...

Aaargha, good to see you back (and to know you were just on vacation)! :D

It fits in 4 chunks. Wondering how well it works..
I gave this a test run, and it only got about 30 TPM for set 1 and 40 for set 2, even after I replaced eight unnecessary chain signals around the outside with regular ...

Alright, here it is. Four lane T junction sized for six car trains, getting around 112-116 TPM. Since there are only three entrances and exits this is approximately equivalent to a four-way junction that scores around 150 TPM. I was surprised to find that it was noticeably slower than the fastest ...

It's a good thing nobody actually requires the throughput of even my 8-lane version. (Err... I certainly hope that's true, anyway!) It was intended primarily as an experient, testing how far the limits of the rail system could be pushed... :) I can imagine the 4-lane I posted being useful, though ...

Yeah, that's done using the creative mode magic wand, configured (using the menu in the upper left) to create "lab tile" (there are several shades of grey) and then dragging out an area just like using blueprints and deconstruction. I ended up moving out some of the power poles that were crossing ...

90 per minute per lane? That would be 90*4*4=1440 TPM. Perhaps you Mean 90 per minute from each of the four arms?

I meant neither of those, although the difference from the first is still a factor of four. :)

When talking about how many lanes a junction has, you don't generally count up all the ...

The twelve template trains at each end -- or at least, the eight which don't have equal chances of going to each station -- have a "cargo > X" wait condition setting for each station other than the one they're being spawned from (which always has another, different condition). The X assigns the ...

Hello, I tried 2-lane compact at aarghaa's train test save but on running it for 15 mins, I got nowhere like 40-41 trains/min as advertised. I consistently only get 31-32 trains/min even sub 30 sometimes, has anyone else find the same result?
That's odd, I tried it for a few minutes and actually ...

TBTerra, you got me wondering... and I just had to try it. ;) The result is the ridiculous behemoth of which I have attached a picture below.

Running a throughput test on this thing drops my UPS to 45, or "only" 55 if I zoom way in so I can hardly see anything at all, just from how many trains are ...