Stefan Lindbohm

New feature of the Railfinder journey planner live today: avoiding station changes that require a metro or similar

We now consider transfers in three levels: within a station, walking between nearby stations, and changes that require local transit.

If the fastest journey possible requires a worse change of stations, we calculate other options that have easier transfers. And we promote the easier journeys higher in the list of results.

For example going Brussels - Barcelona skipping Paris ⤵️

Another small-ish quality feature is now live on Railfinder – sorting shorter trips by departure time by default!

We’re proud of our ”Best” sorting for longer journeys, but it’s long been clear that it is not ideal for shorter/simpler journeys. So we’ve now added some logic to automatically switch to departure time sorting when appropriate.

And to make things easier to navigate, there’s now also a filter to jump directly to a specific departure time.