miklcct
Established Member
I'm interested in how people usually plan their public transport journeys for unfamiliar places. Assume the journey itself is totally inflexible (you must depart / arrive a fixed place at a fixed time) but the means of travel is flexible.
Here are some possible workflows:
A. You enter your whole journey into Google Maps, Citymapper or similar, pick your way to travel, check how you should obtain tickets and obtain them if necessary.
B. You decide on a primary mode of travel (e.g. bus, train, coach, aeroplane), find out the operators for that mode of transport, and enter the origin and destination stop closest to your actual journey to obtain itineraries and tickets, while leaving the access and egress (travelling from the origin to the boarding stop of your chosen mode / from the alighting stop to the destination) planned separately.
C. You first check the routes and timetables of various stops near your destination to identify possible journey opportunities, repeating the process backwards, until you reach a place which you are familiar with, then obtain the tickets individually from each of the networks used.
In practice, which behaviour above (or other) is most likely? Does it change if you have access to other forms of transport, including private transport or shared mobility (some software supports planning the whole journey using a combination of private / shared / public transport)?
Here are some possible workflows:
A. You enter your whole journey into Google Maps, Citymapper or similar, pick your way to travel, check how you should obtain tickets and obtain them if necessary.
B. You decide on a primary mode of travel (e.g. bus, train, coach, aeroplane), find out the operators for that mode of transport, and enter the origin and destination stop closest to your actual journey to obtain itineraries and tickets, while leaving the access and egress (travelling from the origin to the boarding stop of your chosen mode / from the alighting stop to the destination) planned separately.
C. You first check the routes and timetables of various stops near your destination to identify possible journey opportunities, repeating the process backwards, until you reach a place which you are familiar with, then obtain the tickets individually from each of the networks used.
In practice, which behaviour above (or other) is most likely? Does it change if you have access to other forms of transport, including private transport or shared mobility (some software supports planning the whole journey using a combination of private / shared / public transport)?