Deliver the Fuel! Crossing Jutland, Denmark

Objective

Take the crude oil from the North Sea, through the Port of Esbjerg, to the refineries in Fredericia and deliver fuel to the many communities scattered across the map. 

You can consider the main task complete, when you have a steady supply of fuel going to each town that demands it.

Settings

This map works best when the following settings are set:

Industry target - Sparse

Industry Closure - Never

Infrastructure upkeep - 75%

Getting started

Raise capital by taking on smaller tasks, such as delivering passengers, fish, meat, etc., then work your way, bit by bit, across the map.

Even though elevation is not an issue in this very flat map, the bigger challenge is placing stations and infrastructure through the many cities with custom road layout, no city is the same.

About the map

This map experiments with clustering industries into specific areas. Oil is only found in the westernmost sea, refineries are only found in Fredericia, in the East, while farms is scattered across the map.

All industries, all cities and all roads have been placed by hand, and most roads are locked for cities (though allowing areas for cities to expand into)

The map is a Very Large 1:3 map of a real region in Denmark scaled down 1:4. 

Starting year is 1950

Placement and size of towns has been selected by real data from 1950 and 1960, with a linear model where a TF3 city size of 10 equates to 300 real life inhabitants and TF3 city size of 500 equates to 50.000 real life inhabitants. Only towns with more than 500 inhabitants in 1960 has been placed*.

*exceptions made for Blåvand and Sønder Bjert

Sources

Heightmap data:

• EuroDEM for land
• DDM (Denmark's Depth Model) for sea

Settlements, industries and roadconnections:

• Dataforsyningen
• Statistisk årbog 1951 og 1961 (Danmarks Statistik)