01/05/2010
A journey planner is a specialised electronic search engine used to find the best journey between two points by some means of transport.
One of its major roles is to make accessible transport information that can be confusing. It promotes intermodality of transport modes and is a good way to draw a transport networks panorama of a region, identifying by then insufficiencies of public transport and levers to encourage sustainable forms of travel. It leads to the optimization of a trip from one point to another.
Lower Normandy Journey Planner
www.Commentjyvais.fr
The Lower Normandy Region wants to promote interoperability, the continuity of the networks and to encourage intermodality. Lower Normandy wishes to intensify the information given out to the user (in a spirit of continuous improvement of the service quality) and to the general public which is capable to realise a modal shift from car to public transport.
The website www.commentjyvais.fr, a multimode information system, is now on line since 1st June 2009. It offers a lot of services to facilitate and encourage the use of public transport: itinerary, timetables, disruptions, activities, places to visit,…
Ten local authorities from the region joined in to develop this tool, which enables to cover a zone of regional dimension and of best intermodality practices. In the long term, the objective is to integrate all the authorities of transport of the regional area in order to make this tool compatible with the systems developed by the French neighbouring areas and the INTEGRA portal.
The Lower Normandy Region aspires also to publish accessible information and has, therefore, settled a “mirror website”, dedicated to the visually impaired and blind people.
Cantabria Transport Website
www.TransportedeCantabria.es
The new web portal on regional transport was launched on the 13th May 2009. This new website offers information in Spanish and English about how to travel to and within Cantabria. So far, the web provides information about timetables, itineraries and stops of every regional bus and train service in the region. It also gives information on train services and flights from/to Santander Airport through links with the websites of the air and rail companies.
Currently, new applications for the website are being developed as it is intended not to be only an information tool but also a management one which will be used to manage the transport network in Cantabria and to update and share databases with transport operators and regional administrative bodies within the START project.
Upper Normandy Journey Planner
By the next three years, all Upper Normandy collective transport networks will be able to sell tickets for any journey on any network to any traveller in Upper Normandy, and provide the same reliable, complete information about the entire journey. This intermodal travel system called Atoumod is a real innovation in France because of a strong alliance of the region's Transport Authorities, and the simultaneous availability of the proposed services to travellers. All information about Atoumod and intermodal travel options will be available on the dedicated internet site, www.atoumod.fr , from September 2010. This site will be updated to provide travellers with additional services, such as a journey planner (multimodal information system) and online ticket purchasing.
Since 2005, the Upper Normandy region has worked in close cooperation with the 14 transport authorities operating within its area, to create an intermodal system of an unparalleled size in France. By working together, the partners seek to pool a whole range of intermodal services, for the benefit of every traveller.
Concretely, this innovative system called Atoumod will be a smart card which can be used on all networks (intermodal ticketing), with attractive pricing for switching from one network to another (intermodal pricing), and timetable info rmation for the journey, whatever its start and end points (intermodal information).
The Atoumod card relies on "contactless" technology. Rechargeable and valid for a number of years, the Atoumod card allows both regular and occasional travellers to travel throughout the Upper Normandy region freely, because it can hold tickets for one or more networks.
In addition to this technology, the combined expertise of the partners will contribute in practical terms to a straightforward and relatively uniform service being created, which in turn will help to facilitate its use by travellers.
From September 2010, Atoumod contactless smart cards will be tested by volunteer users on the Rouen-Val-de-Reuil route.It will then be gradually extended throughout all Upper Normandy networks between 2011 and early 2013.
An internet site dedicated to Atoumod containing info rmation and detailed explanations about this service will be online from September 2010: www.atoumod.fr