How is the price for goods and passengers calculated?

[Morat]

What determines how much you earn for carrying goods and passengers? Is it based on the distance travelled, time taken or some combination of both? Is there a difference between goods and freight?

I’m having a hard time working out whether it’s  better to be transporting longer distances or to have shorter but more frequent journeys.

[Mansen]

I don’t know if there’s more to it but distance travelled is certainly taken into account – In fact you’ll want to take advantage of that for industry. Never sell your goods or raw materials to a nearby industry if you can reach one further away.

This is where the high train maintenance costs really come into play – Making short lines is a great way to turn an otherwise profitable route into a money sink. The (large) amount of stuff moved back and forth is just done too cheap to earn you any profits.

[Stonelouse]

but it seems to be the actual distance between industries, not the distance that your train travels. i connected two nearby industries, where one was high upon a hill via a rather long line that wriggled down the hill and i was loosing a lot of money on that.

[Author]

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