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rome2rio – latest updates to international travel search

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December 12, 2016

I’ve long admired and enjoyed using rome2rio, an impressive international travel search engine. rome2rio enables journey planning across air, ferries, intercity transit, and local transit around the world. The site uses GTFS data for public transit. rome2rio has announced improvements to their transit directions feature on their blog (excerpts and links below). https://www.rome2rio.com/blog/2016/12/07/introducing-transit-colours-and-names-on-rome2rio-and-why-it-matters/ Excerpt below: It’s this final leg and […]

Visits soar to rome2rio, the international multimodal travel search site

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November 30, 2015

rome2rio helps travelers to discover transportation between points on the globe, stitching together bus, train, ferry, air, and other options into multimodal itineraries. The site uses many sources for transportation data, including GTFS. In Fall 2015, Travel Trends News reported that visits to rome2rio soared, bringing the site to profitability. I take this partially as […]

new rome2rio feature: transport layer for bus, rail, and air

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February 21, 2012

The excellent rome2rio now shows a “transport layer” in its map interface. This shows all rail and bus routes available on the site. Airports are also shown on the map. More at the rome2rio blog. Map of Oregon’s intercity services shown below.