A mod for Subway Builder that adds detailed per-route analytics, historical tracking, financial metrics, and real-time timetable analysis to your network.
Advanced Analytics sits alongside the game UI and gives you data the base game doesn't expose:
- Per-route metrics — ridership, throughput, load factor, performance, transfer connections, revenue, cost, profit, and profit per train
- Timetable analysis — real-time headway regularity, schedule drift, per-stop delay profile, and dwell compliance charts
- Three data modes — live (last 24h), historical (end-of-day snapshots), and side-by-side day comparison
- Trend charts — visualize how any route evolved over time
- Route notes — attach a free-text note to any route and track it alongside its historical profit
- System map — schematic overview of your entire network
- Storage manager — export, import, and manage analytics data across saves
All data is stored in IndexedDB and persists across game restarts. No save file is modified.
| Metric | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Ridership | Total passenger-trips recorded on the route in the last rolling 24 hours. |
| Throughput | Total passenger-trips the route could carry in 24 hours given its current train schedule and loop time. |
| Load Factor | Peak passengers on the busiest segment ÷ train capacity. The primary crowding indicator. Values above 100% mean trains are overcrowded at their peak. |
| Performance | Daily ridership ÷ bidirectional 24 h throughput ceiling. Measures how efficiently the route's schedule is being used. A value above 1× means high passenger turnover at intermediate stops — a good sign on busy multi-stop routes. |
| Revenue | Total fare income for the day, read directly from the game's revenue model. |
| Cost | Daily operational cost based on trains deployed, train type, and hours of service. Accounts for mid-day schedule changes. |
| Profit | Revenue minus Cost. |
| Profit / Train | Daily profit divided by total trains across all demand tiers. |
These four metrics appear in the Route panel and update continuously throughout the day as trains complete each stop. They reset at midnight.
| Metric | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Headway Regularity | How evenly spaced consecutive trains are at the first stop. Expressed as a coefficient of variation (CV) — the lower, the more regular. High values indicate bunching. |
| Schedule Drift | How far ahead or behind the timetable the whole route has shifted, averaged across all trains and stops. Distinct from Headway: trains can be evenly spaced but still all running late. |
| Delay Profile | Per-stop chart of average arrival delay accumulated across all laps today. Reveals whether delays are growing progressively or isolated to a single problem station. |
| Dwell Compliance | Per-stop chart of actual vs scheduled dwell time. Positive values mean trains are being held longer than planned — a common cause of downstream delays on busy routes. |
There are two installation methods.
Install Railyard mod manager. Search for "Advanced Analytics".
- Create the
advanced-analyticsfolder in your mods directory (Main Menu > Settings > Mods). - Download the latest ZIP from the release page.
- Extract the ZIP content into the
advanced-analyticsfolder you created. - Restart the game and activate "Advanced Analytics" — that's it 🙂
Pre-releases may contain incomplete features or bugs. Use stable builds for everyday play.
Bug reports and feature suggestions are welcome.
- Found a bug? Open an issue with steps to reproduce and your game version.
- Have an idea? Open an issue to discuss it before sending a PR.
- Want to contribute code? Fork the repo, make your changes on a branch, and open a pull request against
master. Please keep PRs focused — one feature or fix per PR.
| 🚇 Subway Builder | subwaybuilder.com |
| 📖 Official API docs | subwaybuilder.com/docs |
| 💬 Community Modding | subwaybuildermodded.com |
A big thank you to everyone who tested early builds, reported bugs, and shared feedback. This mod wouldn't be where it is without your support. ❤️
