Please sign in to post.

European Commission simplifies Europe-wide travel booking and train travel

"The European Commission has proposed new rules to make seamless travel across Europe a reality. The three proposals adopted today simplify planning and booking for regional, long-distance and cross-border travel, particularly for rail journeys involving multiple operators, and ensure better protection for rail passengers for the entire journey. ...

Background: a recent Eurobarometer survey revealed strong public demand for seamless travel solutions and reliable online booking systems."

Full information in EU press release.

Posted by
4701 posts

Parts of this are already realized by private companies, e. g. Deutsche Bahn journey planner for train connections in / to and from Germany.

Other companies such as Omio already realized comparisons between modes of transport and different providers.

Posted by
565 posts

Other companies such as Omio already realized comparisons between modes of transport and different providers.

Omio is such a great app, for some reason many people on this forum don't like it at all.

Posted by
2929 posts

Omio is pretty useless. I just checked for Paris to Lyon and it only suggested long journeys by road coaches. So, then I went into filters and put in for direct trains- search - and it still failed to offer me the high seed trains that operate on this route.

Then I tried Newport in south Wales (UK) to Edinburgh and again, it only showed me bus/coach options taking around 15 hours and going into central London to change to another coach to head north to Edinburgh. This is completely bonkers way to do such a trip. It can be done by train in around 5 to 6 hours and not going anywhere near London.

https://www.thetrainline.com I find is the best site to use for finding train travel across Europe - though I would not use it for trains in the Britain as https://www.buytickets.scotrail.co.uk will come up with same prices for any train journey in Britain and not charge a commission. (They may do 1 split if it reduces the price).

https://trainsplit.com and https://www.traintickets.com/?/ are also good for trains in Britain only and they find ways of reducing the price of getting from a to b by splitting the ticket if it gets a saving - but charge commission on the amount saved.