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[sweitx]

I'm surprised that this wasn't suggested before.
My idea here is that you can designate a minecart route as passenger route.
When dwarf tries to reach its destination through pathfinding (assuming A* pathfinding algorithm). Once it encounter a stop that part of a desginate Minecart route, it will take that route into consideration based on an assumed speed on the route (say, assume the cart always travels at 0.25 tiles/tick).
For multiple dwarfs using the same stop, each successful path using the stop will increase that stop's pathing cost by a certain amount (so you don't get all your fortress dwarf waiting at the stop because the route using that stop is the "shortest" for them all).

So, you can setup a kind of minecart network that allow you to shuttle dwarfs over long distance automatically (they'll take a cart to get there if it's a shorter route, or the only route).

[10ebbor10]

Suggested before. More than once, I believe.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Suggested before. More than once, I believe.

Indeed.

It's also a little silly. Minecarts are, shockingly enough, made to make carrying bulk amounts of goods easier, not transport. There's a reason Paris doesn't have elevated minecart tracks; they're just not good transport. They're not even that good in DF!