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My daily commute would involve a bus transfer but I
always
just bike to the second bus to save time. In order to plan
out
my trip, I have to set my starting point as the start of
the
second route and I have to adjust the time and locations
based on my own estimates.
Since Google's trip
planner already has a feature for
buses
and bikes, it shouldn't be too hard to combine the two. It
would give you an option of how far you're willing to ride
to
catch the bus and maybe an option for if you're a slow,
medium, or fast rider, and it would calculate a route
accordingly.
TFL (Transport for London)
http://journeyplann.../XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2
[hippo, Oct 20 2010]
Traveline
http://www.traveline.org.uk/
for outside London [pocmloc, Oct 20 2010]
[link]
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The TFL route planner does this (link) - it will give journeys between any two points in London with a combination of rail, light rail, tube, tram, bus, coach, and boat, and will include cycling and walking if you ask it to, and will allow you to set your walking speed. |
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Well then I guess my idea is really just "make a TFL-
like system for everyone outside of London" |
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People live outside London? |
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Yeah, that kinda blew my mind when I found out.
What really blew my mind though was when I found
out I was one of them! |
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Google mass transit already includes walking, and you can modift how far you are willing to walk. If they just added cycling, that would do this. |
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What amazes me is that people choose to live in London. I mean I can understand being born there, not being old enough to travel unaccompanied etc. but it is not that far to the other side of the M25, what on earth is stopping them all from just leaving? |
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//what on earth is stopping them all from just
leaving?// |
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MechE - You didn't read the whole post did you?
Google has a bike trip planner and as I said, you can
plan a trip by using both features, but also as I said,
you'll be planning a trip based on your own
knowledge of the city, whereas a combined planner
would be able to give you the quickest, most
efficient route possible. |
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And I was saying that their mass transit planner
already does walking and mass transit at the same
time. |
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I had thought there was also an option to tell it
how far you are willing to walk, I admit I don't see
that now, so maybe I was mistaken. |
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So yes I did read the whole post, and they're
halfway there, the just need to implement the
option to toggle on bike directions as well as
walking and implement the feature I thought I
remembered. |
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Why can't you get your chauffeur to do this for you ? |
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[MechE] //...implement the feature I thought I
remembered.// |
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Not exactly tagline material, but might be useful for
future halfbaked ideas. |
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Main problem is that it's underconstrained.
Many possible hybrid routes, ranging from 100% bike to 100%
bus & (in general) multiple values in between. Lotsa ways
you
could constrain this, but which are the useful ones? |
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// what on earth is stopping them all from just leaving? // |
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The M25, clearly. The great sigil Odegra. |
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And long may it continue - we don't want any of those buggers escaping into the Real World. |
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