Using REAL HIGHWAY LAYOUTS to get high scores in Freeways!

What secrets of highway interchange layout design have I picked up as a civil engineer of 10 years specializing in highway design? I should be really good at this right? Right????
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About Freeways:
Freeways is a game where you draw freeway interchanges. You are the traffic engineer.
Draw roads like you're drawing a picture.
Design for efficiency or draw the spaghetti junction of your dreams.
Simulate traffic flow through your interchange. Most importantly, avoid traffic jams.
Connect a whole world together in a network of interchanges. Features 80 levels.
#realcivilengineer #freeways #engineering

[@BigChungus-gx3zt]

Him: a civil engineer Also him: okay, this is a building and i don’t think you can drive through it…

[@Soken50]

You don't know, it could have been a Russian -mall- airport. (For those who don't know there is a pretty famous video of a guy driving like a madman through a Russian -mall- airport followed by security in a Benny Hill-esque pursuit.) Edit : It wasn't a mall but an airport.

[@Perzyn]

@@Soken50 Ah if it was an airport it makes perfect sense he drove like madman around it, it was probably the Red Square. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust]

[@Soken50]

@@Perzyn The article you linked has nothing to do with this

[@danbert8]

The Old Chicago Main Post Office has entered the chat...

[@GreenAppelPie]

There are buildings in Japan you literally drive through

[@ThisChannel1]

"The most efficient junction design " He says as the road is literary jammed

[@wolfer1000]

What are you talking about? Didn't you see the efficiency inherent in the shape of the road?

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Some people just dont have an engineering eye... 😂

[@glaglelolba6279]

God damn architects am I right? Lol

[@OmegaKillswitch303]

I'd say it was all cocked up but I rather like seeing the strongest shape jam..nevermind ignore me.

[@md.abulkalamazad6847]

@@OmegaKillswitch303 he did cock it up It's the strongest possible shape

[@theroadstopshere]

Watching a grown man geek out about virtual freeway interchange layouts is not something I think that KZbin may have expected to be a source of great entertainment on their platform back when it started, but boy it sure is. Absolutely loved the end card made out of freeway, that genuinely made me smile ear-to-ear! Peace, love, and freeways for everyone!

[@Soulsphere001]

People like watching experts do their thing.

[@UofU10]

Your second river level solution was so elegant, I can’t believe you can just see traffic flows it’s incredibly impressive

[@ijemand5672]

Your*

[@UofU10]

@@ijemand5672 ty

[@highpath4776]

It looks similar to M1 Meadowhall Interchange

[@Starlit_Onion]

​@@ijemand5672 💀

[@epicrory1903]

The truck in the bottom corner shows how much concrete you’ve used, bridges and double bridges use more concrete and therefore reduce efficiency

[@zavaraninoveuhorky]

Wow this is very useful like it up bois

[@Furcoon]

I also thought that

[@emsydacat9707]

Oh, hello first-name buddy!

[@Thohean]

That last map definitely needs a do-over with smoother bends to squeeze out a 500.

[@earthling_parth]

It's itching me so bad, that I wanna purchase the game and get 500 myself XD

[@JBG-AjaxzeMedia]

@@earthling_parth marketing ploy!

[@Thoran666]

Looks like you figured out how to make trafic flow fast and cheap in this game. You should become a civil engineer. :D

[@hondacivic6111]

Someone’s boutta get r/whoooshed

[@wikansaktianto9215]

Nope, architect is more likely.

[@HibiyaPlays]

@@wikansaktianto9215 Traffic Engineering is a thing and is a branch in Civil Engineering lol

[@Xeridanus]

@@hondacivic6111 Nah, that was obvious trolling.

[@longshootingshow2163]

Lol

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

Game: So now the little cars need to go through the gas stat... Matt: *CAR WASH OR NOTHING MATE*

[@paulinhainha35]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@highpath4776]

Some of the other ones I think the L in a sack is a bank, one of the others was a shopping mall and not what Matt thought

[@AlwaysLoisLane]

I don't think he really thought that though, he just messes around with everything

[@alexanderfang8285]

toll booth maybe

[@spikeworks]

those are toll booths

[@AtmasOne]

i randomly stumbled upon these vids, and as someone with a very short attention-span - i was literally binge-watching a series and completely stopped to watch all three freeway vids in a row without doing anything else next to it (basically never happens) - i am definitely gonna watch more of you. humor, presentation and mechanical and logical thinking in harmony... easy sub here.

[@MishMoves]

Pretty much the same!!

[@nileprimewastaken]

same lol

[@Wolfogon]

EXACTLY

[@CaptainBlack47]

Im so glad that the stars aligned for me to not only find out that there's a game for the logistics of freeway engineering, but that an actual engineer is playing it, AND its appeared in my recommended!

[@wikansaktianto9215]

This series should have been called CLOVERFIELD.

[@ja-x327]

Even Cloverfield LANE haha

[@longshootingshow2163]

@@ja-x327 lol

[@theone_funyt3878]

"We have a ground level bridge(, a higher bridge and an even higher bridge.)" RCE 22/10/2021

[@McThompachme]

If you hold right click it makes a bridge until you let go which minimizes the chance of the road jumping when you go down

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

ooo thanks I'll try that

[@tristanridley1601]

Did he ever figure out that the complexity rating is set for each level? Basically "difficulty multiplier".

[@aviat4ion]

I'm not sure if the Android/iOS version, or the PC version is easier to get those lines just right...at least the PC version has right-click bridge building. By the way, if an interchange has an unlockable image, when you run the simulation, there will be a number in the top left of the score window that you need to beat to unlock the image.

[@samotnaf007]

I think the lines are best on the pc, personally i use a ruler, put it next to the mouse and just slide the mouse like you were drawing a line with pencil 😀 you have to eyeball the curves tho, still working on some solution with the compass 😀😀

[@TruCloudGaming]

You all seem to have played this game, on the original 9 on the top left one how the dick did he use bridges? they are supposed to be disabled for that one or at least it is for me. Edit: I reset the game and now I can build bridges on that map, maybe it is random which maps you can and can't build bridges on?

[@lisahenry20]

@@samotnaf007 using a ruler and compass is big brain. I used the side of my laptop or straight lines, unfortunately I don't think I have a compass. You might be able to do bends by just holding the pencil side of the compass in the hand you're holding the mouse with?

[@JunesGo]

12:45 'ground level bridge' AKA road

[@crimsonharvest]

Dear Mister Engineer, your quad river crossing gives me the idea that you might get a thrill out of building the bridges and curves and grades in Transport Fever 2, or the audience too for that matter. Thanks for the videos.

[@villealasaari1012]

Nice to watch an architect at work.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

bruh

[@athenadrakul1400]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming you are an architect, you failed to make it efficient. And your color blind at 10:00 that’s orange not red

[@lapiswake6583]

After watching your previous Freeways video, I went and got the game myself. I got 437 on the first one, number 15, by doing a very complex junction not at all like yours, which simply uses less concrete. I only got 320 on the 2nd one, number 14, probably due to tight corners. My solution was basically the same for the 3rd, number 13, but must've used a tiny bit more concrete. I got 359 on the 4th, number 12, probably overly complex and may redo like yours. I got 352 on the 5th, number 11, with a similar design to you. I got 448 on the 6th, number 10, basically copying you. I got 335 on the 7th, number 9, using the through roads plus a backwards roundabout over them with roads to the car washes and a bypass to the lower ones. Redoing it like yours, I got 492. I got 573 on the 8th, number 20, after refining my previous design (the same as yours) to minimise bridges and road length. 1. 269 2. 416 using magic roundabout style 3. 387 using a simpler version of the sort of thing you did 4. 319 using a big roundabout 5. 283 using a bad triangle design 6. 564 using a hamburger roundabout (no horizontal cut throughs, only vertical ones) 7. 317 using a design I could probably simplify 8. 491 using a hamburger roundabout 9. 492 10. 448 11. 352 12. 359 13. 176 using a roundabout 14. 320 15. 437 17. 256 using a fan style design 18. 298 is just a mess 20. 573 21. 300 as a double roundabout The rest not done yet.

[@wingedfish1175]

7:20 I mean I assume that a basic Interchange would have been sufficient all the way up till the invention of cars (or at least till the drastic rise in population density) so I'd believe that all intersections used to be a simple interchange to a point

[@zachariashansen7242]

RCE, everything hurts and my heart is dead, but your videos are keeping me happy and keeping my mind off of crap. Thank you for keeping me sane.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Stay strong, like a truss!

[@zachariashansen7242]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Made my week! Made me realize I don’t have to let the stupid architects ruin my day 😂

[@antimonni]

These videos are entertaining and educational at the same time 👍 as a traffic engineer student I really like how you explain the choices and it makes me actually understand why it has to be like that after hearing about the topic in lectures. Also fun to see someone in this field like gaming as much as I do :)

[@iano41]

Was that first one basically a reverse diverging diamond? A converging diamond, perhaps?

[@adamgravelin3002]

It's really just a regular cloverleaf but it's interchanging into some weird country that drives on the wrong side of the road.

[@IsadoraGuidoni]

This series is so much fun! It's really interesting to see how you come up with simple solutions to what would (for me) be a nightmare to figure out. Please keep on!

[@benjaminharmon6541]

I watched ONE (1) video of you playing this game and I had to buy it. It's so much fun! It really encourages holistic solutions where you visualize where the traffic will flow before you place anything down, and the lack of undo button kind of hammers that in. It's like drawing with ballpoint pen in that way!

[@railrunners]

I'm just living for the Stingray reference that about 4 other people probably understood

[@JackButlerVideos]

Yes stingray!

[@SteelyGlint]

Finally found someone else who does this!

[@jekrixlokan4507]

I had so much trouble on the level you did at 11:13 I spent like an hour on it and only got a score of like 140 because I kept trying to have the split roads under the green housing area where there was barely any space. It's really cool to see you make it so much more simply. You can also click on the stopwatch, the question mark block, and a few other things you unlock while in the map view and it'll do some neat stuff

[@AnElt999]

I like freeways more than minimotorways and finally, it's back! Thank you for the video

[@archivushka]

There's slight inconstancies on iOS version with aspect ratio, while on android it's forced to 16;9 (or 4;3, I haven't played it for 2 years, and just came back)

[@AnElt999]

@@archivushka вот и встретились двое русских в час ночи на каком-то странном канале

[@archivushka]

@@AnElt999 да чё странного, классный мужик он. Я застрял на 24 секторе, из-за нестандартного соотношения сторон дороги не сходяться

[@MotoCat91]

Mate, I would love to see your attempts at building things in Space Engineers. It has a similar vibe to other sandbox games you've played like Kerbal Space Program but with construction more like legos/voxels and is more friendly toward robotics design. I say friendly as in they're easier to construct, but Klang, much like The Kraken in KSP is an unforgiving mistress

[@stuchris]

he could also explore the real-world applied engineering challenges in Medieval Engineers as well, especially with the latest mods allowing hyper-realistic trains, planes, cars, tanks, and ships

[@cludecat7072]

Motorway Matt is back

[@ItsDdvdd]

Burlington ON resident here. That highway is the 407, the privately owned toll highway of the GTA. Most of it is concrete and makes for some of the nicest highway driving I've ever experienced

[@connerharper7542]

Nice stingray reference i loved it as a kid and i had a VHS tape with it on that i would watch every night and then get the opening stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

[@legitgopnik8431]

This game is perfect for your channel, it might be my favorite series you've done!

[@johnnyblanton2370]

I have used the Marne Michigan exits and on ramps, they are pretty neat

[@kaz7953]

Amongst your videos Freeways and Mini motorways are the most fun to watch. Wish there are more.

[@faker-nd5dw]

Good on that 2 level(this video). Only diverges then merges. edit: just watched the full vid, your doing it everywhere!!!

[@mikesay98]

I really enjoy these videos. THOUGHT: have you ever considered drawing them from end to beginning either as a challenge or as a strategy?

[@ArtamisBot]

This is fun to watch... I like the part where he talks about the roads!

[@madkirk7431]

This is gonna become a series and I'm damn glad.

[@cardosogabrielr]

Thanks for the new video, Motorway Matt.

[@baystated]

You can be proud of your work without the validation of the score, but your christmas-morning high score gasps are delightful.

[@PureNrGG]

I subbed just to watch you play this game! I would love to see you continue to experiment and find the absolute most efficient routes for all maps!

[@thehutch7728]

When’s the album gonna drop? You crack me up every time you sing! 666 likes and zero dislikes after ~45 minutes is impressive! Looks like the architects are all busy this morning!

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Check out "Polarpoint" on spotify, I do everything except sing on the album!

[@AtomToast]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Are you sure you didn't sing? Sounds pretty spot on. Also dope in general! Did you also make your channels outro guitar jingle yourself?

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

@@AtomToast yes I did, watch my 100k subscriber special 😉 (that's also on Spotify under Real Civil Engineer)

[@AtomToast]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Will check it out!

[@enderking_13]

Check the disklikes

[@katherinebaker9909]

Just recently found your channel, and it's wonderful!

[@smorrs1533]

Im from burlington and thought the 403,QEW,407 interchange would have been in the game after watching your first video, guess they chose the next one over. the 403,QEW,407 is amazing

[@AzarakiDragon]

The fact that the video opened with a bus trying to turn around and getting the rest of the cars stuck was perfect

[@aominedaiki9571]

When will he reach 1 mill... He really deserves it❤️

[@wojciechgromek250]

Yes yes i love the series please keep it going!

[@michaelhartree465]

Great video, keep 'em coming!!!

[@Ghostah]

Absolutely love watching you play this game.

[@notboyslammer1513]

at 8:14 it reminds me of the inter changes on to the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. so complex...

[@SR-cp1eo]

The "not so easy looking solutions" bit at the beginning reminds me of the Honolulu Intl Airport highway onramp.

[@joppekim]

Thanks for making my friday night. Cheers!

[@RealZynexx]

Loving this series!!!

[@Bitz00.]

couldnt wait for another video on this game

[@36reaper]

i love this mans yt channle

[@Dangerously.Stupid]

Ye

[@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo]

I love these so much. I love mini motorways too, but I prefer these videos 🥰

[@leonardonunes5437]

As a freeway lover, i can confirm the number 3 with a chin is the most efficient design ever.

[@krissyallen]

Nicely done and I love it

[@rpglife7268]

Watching you design roads is too entertaining.

[@Bruno-dv3ym]

i love these videos, we learn more about roads and the lovelly narrator pf this channel

[@KairosYTT]

Have you heard of a traffic solution called a Michigan Left Turn? I'm not sure you'll be a fan of it because it puts multiple routes of traffic on the same stretch of road but id like to see you talk about it.

[@koen4261]

YES ANOTHER VIDEO OF THIS!!!!!!!! YEA

[@TrideGD]

Consider that like button booshed. Loving this series!

[@CVMN-kf2qc]

Marne, Michigan is only about 10 miles from my house. I drive through that intersection on a weekly basis!!

[@jma89]

I grew up in Marne, attending that church (Berlin Baptist) when it was located on the Eastbound off-ramp. The side entrance steps are all of 12 feet from the ramp traffic. Saw a few cars take the ramp too fast and wind up in the trees... Thankfully there were never any pedestrian-involved incidents there, despite a parking lot across the ramp from the church. Fun fact: The I-196/US-131 interchange is another interchange featured as a pic in this game. I've forgotten which number/level it's behind though.

[@issanyan1602]

you're so cool i just wanted to let you know that i am binging your videos and having so much fun :)

[@goodsirbear-7579]

this channel deserves so much

[@tristanridley1601]

I bought this game because of your videos. Decent game, which is high praise from me.

[@Jonny_hard-core]

MICHIGAN!!! Woot woot!!! Great videos! By the way! I enjoyed them a lot!!!

[@VexisMorlock]

that last one you could have done a regular round about with slip streams as most ppl want to go to the next exit. I have a couple here in my town and they are great.

[@dcseain]

As a long time player of this game, I'm really enjoying these.

[@Trickeriz1]

I LOVE THIS GAME AND YOU PLAYING IT ! PLZ MORE!!

[@Elvenheim]

I love he discovered a game I played years ago. Makes me want to restart the game.

[@nicklallo1046]

Wow i drive that marne, Michigan highway every single day CRAZY

[@iandean1112]

I live close to Marne, Michigan (pronounced like Barn). It can get a little crazy getting off of I-96 to go there

[@MobileTech296]

That picture of the exchange in Burlington must be old. Like everything else within a 100km of the CN Tower, it’s practically a suburb of Toronto now. Every highway I’ve been on there is surrounded by buildings.

[@that80sLoverboy]

Marne Michigan is like the smallest town in Michigan and where I am from so I was super surprised to see my old job building in that picture lol crazy

[@TheRealGovika]

I am loving the game!! Some courses get very difficult!

[@Ciph3rzer0]

"The brain" is the best highway design I've ever seen tbh.

[@jameseverlasting6369]

Loving the alternative version of the Stingray theme as an opener

[@StichyWichy21]

The level where you used a cloverleaf but the east-west road was drive on the opposite side would have been a perfect setup for the 'diverging diamond'

[@delta927canadien-francais5]

LOVE ALL YOUR VIDS

[@IMACOOKIE616]

I’m not watching I’m just watching how satisfying it is when it is all sorted out

[@YungGandalf]

I wish you would redraw the levels sometimes when you make a mistake or want to try something different. That’s what I like about your poly bridge videos: you try different solutions and try to optimize. I would have liked to know how much more you would have scored on that last level without the 90 degree bend.

[@DrRussian]

As somebody who makes tiny mistakes in this game, its sometimes easier to take the small mistake rather than restart the level and risk a bigger one

[@YungGandalf]

@@DrRussian I appreciate that would be easier, but I don’t think it would be more entertaining if he tried different stuff anyway to try and improve the design. It would be easier for him to just stop as soon as he completes the challenge on Poly Bridge 2, but I enjoy him taking the time to iterate the design.

[@chillguy4935]

cant wait for the next infra episode

[@zavaraninoveuhorky]

This game is just brilliant Simple and briliant

[@magiclice]

You can hold right click to bring your road up one level! It's a little fiddly but it should be useful 80% of the time.

[@jasonycw1992]

This is strangely oddly satisfying to watch

[@k0suk3e]

the complexity factor isn't how complex the structure is, it's the starting conditions. basically it just shows how hard the level is

[@LuisCaneSec]

The one with very low traffic gives you a pretty good efficiency rating of you just use crossroads or a much tighter roundabout.

[@morbiddinosaur]

More in this series please!

[@callumhurdwell3134]

I think the scores calculated as (100*flow*complexity)/concrete. From the past video I didn't see any change in complexity so I assume that represents how difficult the level is

[@jabber7935]

Loving your vids, been watching them all day. Have you looked into Factorio by chance? Kinda like highways but more on the conveyor belt side. I mean, if you are looking for other games that is.

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

There's a stream of it on my archive channel, not a game that's easy to make content on though!

[@archivushka]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming try out mindustry, it's more basic like freeways, and when you have big factories around your base, you find yourself making highway that won't break anything this time :P

[@jabber7935]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming I'll check it out! Thanks for directing me!

[@yuppy9641]

15:38 that intersection is actually ON-407 ETR and Dundas Street. I should know since I live nearby

[@chrisrose323]

I have no idea how you cought my attention but here I am and I NEED TO SEE MORE!

[@lonelyPorterCH]

yeah, the news ones might not be as efficient as the most efficient shape, but they do look cool^^

[@jonny__b]

Holy shit that Stingray reference at the beginning caught me _way_ offguard. Amazing

[@theshadowforger775]

That beautiful piece of engineering at the beginning looks a little 'cocked' up

[@theomio5923]

Just saying… favourite KZbinr right here. BOSH!

[@rpgaholic8202]

Just wait, you'll eventually get to levels where the game will not let you bridge over other roads. Also, the Stopwatch building, when you're on the main map, lets you toggle whether you see the scores and number assigned to the smaller squares or not. In the other direction, the Question Mark building shows you the pictures you've unlocked as well as some tips for those who have been just brute forcing solutions.