JonMyrlennBailey
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Drive To/Via (track mark, portal, etc.)?
NAVIGATE To/Via (track mark, etc.)?
NAVIGATE To/Via (track mark, etc.)?
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Hard to drive a number of trains (five or more) at once. The BART system is all automated by computer and has been since the early 1970's.
Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Francisco Bay Area, California
If real-world transit trains and subway trains can be automated without trouble, so can PC simulated trains.
Union Pacific now has locomotives roaming around yards unmanned. It takes SMART software engineering to
make it all happen without mishap.![]()
In my opinion the reason for most of the so-called "stupidity" of the AI drivers is due to the use of "Drive to/thru" and "Navigate to/thru" driver commands.
These commands were written to try to locate paths to their destination track marks under all circumstances, often with astonishingly poor results. There should have been another set of commands that do not try to look backwards if the destination mark is not found in a forward direction.
One solution is to use an "Autodrive" command, which does not attempt to set the junctions at all, and will never drive the train in the reverse direction. In order to set the junction directions there are rules that set the paths on demand via a driver command or trigger. Look for "Path rule". Some of there rules are broken in TANE.
Another way to set junctions is by using "ControlJunction" driver command. A series of these commands can be set up in a library schedule and copied in when required.
There are probably a few other ways to set junctions. Do some searching for various keywords.
The yellow direction markers are like "No Entry" signs and prevent trains from entering a track against the arrow direction.
Regards
Trevor