An intermodal layer could also be a part of the expanding of a city and help to make it thriving as well.
Just in keeping with the times, look at the landscape of warehouses that surround the periphery of our major cities. What is that stuff? Amazon Prime "last mile"warehousing? Some other leg of an intermodal network?
(And I suppose server farms would be another element — perhaps a modern Sim has already added that feature to city expansion.)
Perhaps SimPort needs to happen — simulate the international container-ship and port traffic (+ rail, + trucking) and make it all about resource management, canal bottlenecks, supply-chain fragility... (SimSupplyChain — now there's an exciting title.)
If no one has written that game/sim, let me know. Maybe I'll play with the idea.
Just in keeping with the times, look at the landscape of warehouses that surround the periphery of our major cities. What is that stuff? Amazon Prime "last mile"warehousing? Some other leg of an intermodal network?
(And I suppose server farms would be another element — perhaps a modern Sim has already added that feature to city expansion.)
Perhaps SimPort needs to happen — simulate the international container-ship and port traffic (+ rail, + trucking) and make it all about resource management, canal bottlenecks, supply-chain fragility... (SimSupplyChain — now there's an exciting title.)
If no one has written that game/sim, let me know. Maybe I'll play with the idea.
Could be a learning experience for all of us.