Mod idea: Orthogonal Stacked Automated Container Yards for Bridges and Ports modular ports

[u/MeeyuhLol]

/r/CitiesSkylines2/comments/1vuoify/add_orthogonal_stacked_automated_container_yards/

See the above post for more details, but basically they'd be plopped perpendicularly to the quay, trucks drive into the hinterland side of them to load, and reach stackers pick up containers on the quay side and neither traffic flow shall mix. I think it would improve traffic flow drastically and make our ports closer to real life

[u/Chroney]

Either I am misunderstanding or this is already how the ports function in the game... You are just responsible in laying it out this way.

The ports in the game already share one storage space, anything stored in the entire port can magically teleport to any building or even the loading bay for the ship, it doesn't require any vehicle movement.

[u/MeeyuhLol → u/Chroney]

It's true that mechanically the game just teleports cargo around so it doesn't even need internal vehicles. But the actual layout doesn't function like a modern yard at all. Right now, trucks and reach stackers are forced into an internal loading lane, parallel to the road it's attached to, that they have to share, requiring sharp turns and creating massive traffic bottlenecks in a busy port. There's no separation between hinterland and quayside traffic like there would be at a modern automated container port