What makes a good station/ship?

[Grek]

A technical question for maps: How hard is it to modify shuttles? I was thinking of trying to make a map with a bunch of micro-stations connected by shuttles (like the current mining shuttle or the old research shuttle) and pods instead of hallways. After all, cramming people together into a 3x3 room whenever they want to go to the same place is bound to be interesting. But having it work well hinges on the viability of having lots of independent shuttles on the same map. Multi-destination shuttles would also be really helpful there, ie. one that cycles from Department A to Department B to Department C and back to Department A again whenever the shuttle is moved.