Travel time from A to B via Bus1, Train and Bus2 is the sum of the 3 frequencies plus the actual time spent travelling in vehicles and walking between stations? i.e. there is no individual ‘waiting time’ – everyone using that line is given the frequency as the same waiting time.

The disappearing of passengers happens when a building assigned to the agent gets demolished either by player or town growth algorithm.

I think it works like this…

Walking time + Frequency of Line 1 + Actual trip time on Line 1 + Walking time (This is a one line example you can add more)

If the 20 min limit is busted the person/cargo disappears immediately, walking, waiting or riding – just poof. Some people don’t like this but I do as it’s a good indicator your line is on the limit if it happens a lot.

I haven’t seen the 24 minute example gGeorg but if it works as I suspect then that would explain it, your frequency was say 10min for example  but it took a vehicle 14 min to collect the person, due to bunched vehicles on the line or congestion. So the game added only 10 min waiting but you following the person and saw 14 minutes for that waiting part of their travel.

The next interesting question is what order are items/people loaded? First to arrive at station? If you time your line badly all the vehicles will be arriving almost empty.

my statements are based on observations. Here is an example you could try yourself.

Click a man who waits on train station with long route and low freq. He has a target in other city. Target building should be far from train station, best if reachable by bus. Let him load to train. In the middle of transport, set train stop. This simulates a traffic jam, waiting free path, limited bus line capacity, limited bus stop capacity,  … whatever. Wait for 15 minutes then release the train. Train reach the destination, the man leave in destination and suddenly is teleported back home to his original city. No building has changed. After few seconds he pick another target from selection Blue/Red/Yellow and start to travel again.

I can verify the peeps will vanish if their targeted building or building where they live changes or removed. I cannot comment on the 20 min rule, because I didn’t done an actual observation and waiting 20 minutes.

With regard to the frequency guide @fransgelden who wrote that? That person seems a little confused about some core concepts – for example the frequency will be the same at any given station of a line not just the first. If trains leave Berlin for Paris every 15 minutes then they will arrive every 15 minutes and every station in between will have a train pass every 15 minutes no matter what speed they travel, how long the whole journey takes or how spread out the stations are – (assuming a simple line like the game models where the trains don’t wait for other traffic, split or combine etc). From the guide it doesn’t make sense…

Frequency is calculated on the basis of how long something takes to reach the station. This means, if the frequency is 6 minutes, it says your train will take 6 minutes to arrive at the station.

Surely frequency is how often a vehicles passes a station. A particular train could take 6 years to reach a station but if you have enough trains on the line it means some train will pass every station on the line every 6 minutes.

People, including me, become confused by the fact that we got more than 1 station or stop. Bus routes accounts more than 6-10 stops. So how do you know on what station this feature is based on or does it take the average time or is it the travel time itself or what?

I think he’s still confused – frequency is same for every stop – every point on the line infact not just stops. It’s a circle.

Frequency is based on your first stop on the route. The first one you assign in the line. This means it will take ’bout 6 minutes for a train to reach your first station. This also means the train has to finish the whole line before it reach the first station and the frequency is then based from the time it takes to finish the whole line.

Again confusing.

To see the frequency for yourself go to a simple line at the start of a game with about 8 stagecoaches – give them time to space out evenly, then pick a point on the line (any point doesn’t have to be a stop) read off the frequency and count the seconds between the coaches – the number is the same.

But anyway my original question was more to do with how the frequency affects the passengers/items 20 minute timer.