Want to reduce traffic as much as possible

[simple perch]

I am a certified car hater and want my cities to be mostly car-free. However, it seems that no matter how many subway stations, bike lanes, and pedestrian zones I build, my narrow, traffic-calmed streets somehow end up clogged with enough vehicles to run a small nation. The main offenders seem to be trucks bringing goods from my industrial zones to my mixed-use commercial/residential areas. Any suggestions are appreciated.

[bronze spoke]

Are you looking for suggestions for mods to use? I can think of a few that could make things more realistic.

But ultimately the only real vanilla solution to this is to shift a lot of your industry to IT cluster offices (from Green Cities DLC), which produce software that doesn't need to be transported to commercial areas with vehicles.

[gray sand]

Could you please provide with a picture illustrating the most significant situations?

[simple perch]

Mod suggestions would be greatly appreciated

[simple perch]

I don't actually have enough active industry for this issue to show up at the moment.

[gray sand]

If it happens again, I can give you some significant tips I've learned over the years

[simple perch]

I suspect the issue will return when my industry is back at the level it was before.

[bold fable]

Maybe use the ban heavy traffic policy on the districts

Maybe build a highway detour around the city and route the industry traffic that way with some policies

[river plinth]

You can't escape from delivery trucks. Otherwise commercial wouldn't work.
HOWEVER Sims in game consume far too much stuff, and thus with " advanced business consumption " (or whatever it's called) will drastically reduce that and your delivery traffic

[simple perch]

Ultimately, my main goal is to have as few cars in my city as possible.

[river plinth]

If most of it is delivery vehicles, then download the mod and enter realistic values 🙂 (I don't know if they are in the mod description but you can ask an ultra detailer still),

Which means there will be very little traffic

[orchid junco]

Try to build ring roads and cargo terminals so that delivery trucks only drive a short bit inside the city

[simple perch]

Cargo terminals sound like a great idea!

[mortal hedge]

Make sure you are following roadway hierarchy to because even though it would be great to have car free cities it's not realistic and people will still drive so of you don't want cars on certain areas use highways and arterials to get then awqy

[gray sand]

’Realistic’??? I know many cities that are car free