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Each site provides an internet service for planning journeys from an origin to a destination. The public transport data even comes from the same sources. The data is however indexed in different ways and may sometimes give slightly different answers.
Traveline leads you to one of 12 regional journey planners. These give fast responses to local enquiries. Each of them have the national rail and coach timetables in them so you can plan journeys to or from each region to the main towns and cities throughout the UK. These journey planners are used to answer calls to the traveline telephone service 0871 200 22 33.
Transport Direct allows you to ask for locations throughout Great Britain and also gives information for travel by car. It automatically contacts the relevant traveline regional journey planners and other databases too. This usually takes longer than going directly to a Traveline journey planner but the results are supported by detailed maps, live travel information and comparisons which may not be available in the Traveline journey planners.
Google Transit is an experimental service planning journeys with bus and coach information in South East England. The results are displayed on GoogleMaps including the option to select the satellite views. Rail information is not included. Times are in am/pm format.
Plan a Journey integrates UK rail and air data with bus/taxi estimates between airports and rail stations and in Scotland includes all the local transport. The rail information includes station platforms and metro/underground systems and has SMS codes for use with the txt2traveline service 0777 608 2 608.
© traveline 2008, Last updated: 5 May 2008