Comments on: A to B Travel

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:35:42 +0000

You cant escape roads, park and ride needs to be expanded further, it worked well in area I previously worked in.
Craig @
http://www.eflight.com.au

By: dan

dan — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:43:02 +0000

Hi,

Have you tried a new travel search engine called Trabber. Here is the address: http://www.trabber.co.uk

Regards.

By: Simon H

Simon H — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:35:45 +0000

Regardless of helping people get from A to B, the overall problem in the UK is that we as a population are becoming saturated. Drive anywhere and you get stuck in traffic. Get the train and you don’t get a seat.

The new site http://www.kayak.co.uk relieves some of the pain as it provides a one-stop source for international and domestic flight comparison, and was launched on the success of its bigges US brother.

At the end of the day travelling is all about experience. It should be fun and fun to learn. I don’t live in London but travel on business once a week. So over time I now know where walking would be faster than taking the tube….and where to stand on the platforms to ensure the train doors stop directly opposite you.

This should be the same for driving – know the shortcuts and travel at a less conjested time (if possible) then maybe we’ll get out alive travelling from A to B.

By: sarah davies

sarah davies — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:53:14 +0000

the car sharing website http://www.travel2work.co.uk is a nice site but it can be improved futher by listing job vacancies as it is mainly work related.

By: Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:48:51 +0000

I have created a website – travel2work.co.uk which can help people get from A2B.

This website will help in a variety of ways. There are savings to be made by the people offering lifts as well as those giving lifts. Those receiving lifts will not have to pay for the wear and tear of their cars, they may be asked to contribute to parking and or petrol. The more people being lifted the more costs can be saved. Remember if your charge is too much the people will just try and get lifts with other people.

Those giving lifts more than likely would have been going by car anyway, so they will have a person or persons contributing to the payment of the petrol and parking.

This site will be especially beneficial to people seeking work. Using this site will allow job seekers to expand their job search areas, which would in turn would increase their chances of getting a job.

Another advantage of using travel2work.co.uk, is the lowing of traffic on the roads. Again this will save our environment and will decrease the chances of traffic jams, thus making your journey to work quicker. With less traffic on the road, could prevent accidents.

By: Daniel Winterstein

Daniel Winterstein — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:22:09 +0000

Re. transportdirect.info:
It’s an impressive site, and it would take a lot of work to do better. But I think there is considerable room for improvement:
– TransportDirect does not support car-sharing. Adding this in some form would be excellent.
– The transportdirect interface is slow and painful to use – this alone would put me off using it. A MySociety site could be improved by volunteers.
– There’s no infomation during the route-planning stage on the reliabality of different options. E.g. ‘this train is frequently late and very crowded’ or, ‘this road is slow during rush-hour, but fine otherwise’. A system for users to provide feedback could allow for this.

Anyway, I’d support this project, and would be interested in working as a volunteer on it.
– Dan

By: jane t

jane t — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:07:42 +0000

we need transportdirect with an international focus – basically an international train planner would be a great start. something that also allowed you to buy international tickets – or minimally give you the price and how to buy them. it is only in this way that travelling in europe by train can begin to compete with the airlines.

By: Murray

Murray — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:06:58 +0000

> I’m struggling to see what this would do
> that http://www.transportdirect.info doesn’t already do.

The main thing that is missing is the ability to add user specific details.

Things like adding a comment to the 16.03 train journey form Birmingham to Edinburgh, saying “Get the train 3 mins earlier – it arrives 50 mins earlier in Edinburgh”. But it should only appear if your destination can be reached on the 16.00 train.

Or that it is quicker to walk from Embankment to Charing Cross rather than take the northern line.

Or that there is a great place to stop for lunch in ____ when driving between Southampton and Bolton. etc.

Failing that, just having some mysociety use-ability sense applied to the transport direct site. For instance returning to http://www.transportdirect.info this morning (after using it last night), I got an error saying my session had expired. There are a number of other areas where, imho, the site could be considerably improved, and MySociety have an excellent track record of this.

By: Dan G

Dan G — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:56:25 +0000

I’m struggling to see what this would do that http://www.transportdirect.info doesn’t already do.

By: Terry Lurie

Terry Lurie — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:29:39 +0000

Hi Murray.

I am an Entrepeneur building a next gen journey planner.

I am building exactly the website you mention. It is just for London at the moment. If you would like to be placed on the Beta users group, please email me terry at naturalcommunications dot co dot uk . The service will be for free.

I take into account how long it takes to walk in between platforms and down flights of stairs. I also have put a lot of effort into making the journey planning steps easy, feature rich and accessible to disabled people.

Please email me if you would like more information.