Public transport journey planning has a public purpose - get people efficiently to their destination.
This planning function *might* not have financial compensation - there might be no ticket sale involved.
The likes of Trainline then have very little incentive as I see it to provide excellent journey planning. But if they can’t, and the likes of DB won’t, internationally… then who can?
@jon Here's one option: an EU agency tasked with achieving modal shift from cars and planes to buses and trains. In a similar way to National Rail Enquiries in the UK, it would offer a journey planning facility, and would provide vendor-neutral information on all publicly available fares.
It would be so attractive to use that rail operators and ticket sellers would demand to be included so that they didn't miss out on the increased sales and traffic.
Jon Worth
Stephen Cook
Ag