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@Sobex Ah, then we should have it too most likely. Cooperation/cross-border trains are complicated but if it’s domestic and/or outside the DACH countries and DB has it, then we should have it too. They use the same data source for that. (DACH countries have some internal timetable exchange that is not public, so there it differs, mostly on time it takes for changes to show.)

@partim @jon

@jon ”Free of vertical steps” wasn’t as catchy a name 😅

@Sobex First question depends on implementation. Many other booking sites run ”looks” straight and then yes, we (often, nuance possible) save ”looks” for results the user didn’t click on. There are also pure planning possibilities in some API’s that don’t count as ”looks”.

Timetable horizon is hit and miss. Most common is that operators publish the same data that is available in their own sales channel (regardless if bookable or not). But it varies both directions (yes really).

@partim @jon

@Sobex Our journey planner runs 100% in our own systems. We have a license for the raw international timetables (MERITS) and complement that with some other data sources for operators who do not participate in the international dataset.

This is how we can plan any journey across Europe, even when we don’t have an integration to sell tickets.

@partim @jon

@partim Yep I have some ideas on how to do this in our journey planner. We would search extremely pessimistically first, then pick earlier connections as a plan A and keep the pessimistic as the plan B. For connections we don’t have a plan B we would have that warning. It’s quite difficult to implement technically so it’s further in the future though.

In the meantime we always recommend at least 1 hour before any night train, in some cases more. That protects a majority of cases :)

@jon

@jon And the value for money with DB tickets can be incredible. I’m working on our integration right now and testing cases like Gothenburg to Swiss/Austrian ski resorts that can come in at under 100€ door to door.

Plus if you miss a train there’s always another option available. 15-60 min delay to destination might be common, but multi-hour delays rare. Compare this to many other countries where a small problem will often end up making you 3 hours late.