The official National Transit knowledge base

Learn the game. Understand your nation.

From your first connection to the relationship between cities, transport and public finance. The Guide records the current rules and helps you find the real cause of national problems.

What would you like to understand?

Four ways in

Start with the question you have now

New to National Transit?

Quick Start

Build your first functioning nation and learn the essentials as you play.02

Why does the world behave this way?

How the World Works

Understand the forces connecting nations, cities, population, transport, the economy and policy.03

Something is not working?

Fix What’s Wrong

Start with a symptom, find its cause and decide what to change.04

Need an exact answer?

Facts & Figures

Look up metrics, rules, parameters, controls, versions and other exact answers.

Begin with the concepts most often confused

Concept

How the economy fits together

Follow the cycle connecting population, travel, transport service, economic activity and public finance.

Concept

GDP, population and development

Understand how population, national capabilities, resources and transport service combine into economic activity.

Concept

Where public money comes from

Understand recurring support, service-related revenue, one-time funding and borrowing.