20.01.12
Rail travel integrated into Google maps
Google maps has integrated rail travel information from the ticketing website thetrainline.com to provide users with train route and timetable information for over 2,500 stations and 170,000 journeys nationwide.
To make journey planning easier, an option to click through to the thetrainline.com is available to buy tickets when researching travel options.
Departure and arrival times are available, as well as the journey duration and the train company operating the service.
Richard Rowson, product development director at thetrainline.com said: “We’re delighted to be providing train travel information through Google Maps for the first time.
“We want to make sure that consumers are always able to consider rail options when making a journey and this innovation will help train travellers nationwide to do that by planning their route more easily.”
Ed Parsons, Google UK’s geospatial technologist, said: “Google Maps seeks to provide a wide range of relevant local information, and public transport station and schedule information is definitely a part of that.
“It is great to be able to partner with companies like thetrainline.com and have their schedule information available in Google Maps for the whole of Britain. This means we can reach and help a larger number of people with useful national rail train information.”
For more information visit maps.google.co.uk, click ‘Get Directions’ and the train icon.
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