Shipyard employees will sail Boats to the Docks even without teamster or road access.Pay attention to clinic, residential and restaurant orientation! Citizens have to walk to building entrances.Efficiency only affects how quickly work is done - not material consumption.This means if you could somehow completely eliminate travel time your workers could manage 3-4 shifts per year.
On base settings workers seem to alternate visits to work, (fun/church/food), home.work, dinner, home, fun and church all seem to have a base visit time of 1 month.I'm sure this has been done for previous Tropico titles, and I suspect that many of the details will be very similar. After failing catastrophically at a few scenarios I decided to break things down into numbers.