Jam Session

Jam Session

A traffic jam, but where are all those cars going? Jam Session counts the private cars on your screen and lists where they're heading and where they came from, so you can see which trips a new line, a bypass or a ring road would take off the road.

Features

• A car button at the top left, next to the map layers button, opens the Jam Session window, docked at the bottom like the statistics window.
• One row per trip: the town the cars came from and the town they're going to, with the number of cars, and how many are driving home, to work or to the shops.
• Trip: the straight-line distance between the two towns. Here: the distance from where you counted to the destination.
• Click a column header to sort. Click a town's name to open its window, or the pin to move the camera there.
• Map arrow: each row's arrow button draws an arrow from where you counted to the destination town, with the distance on it, and frames both ends.
• Eye: on, only the cars the game draws on screen are counted. Off, cars on nearby streets that are too far away to be drawn count as well, which helps when you're zoomed far out.

How to use

1. Point the camera at the traffic jam.
2. Click the car button. The window counts the cars on screen.
3. Look at the biggest rows: those are the trips worth serving.
4. Move the camera and click the refresh button to count somewhere else. Moving the view and counting again turns the arrow off; counting again without moving keeps it.

Good to know

• Each count is a snapshot: the table doesn't update by itself. A count of a whole city, zoomed far out, is spread over a fraction of a second so the game doesn't stutter.
• Where a trip started is worked out the same way the game does: someone driving home came from their workplace or shop, and anyone else came from home.
• Only private cars are counted. Your buses, trams and trucks aren't.
• Distances are straight-line, not along roads.
• Translated into all languages TF3 supports, as a best effort by a non-native speaker. Corrections are welcome in the comments.
• This is a cosmetic mod. It doesn't change the simulation, so achievements stay available, and you can add it to or remove it from existing saves.