About Routavio
Routavio is an independent route planner that compares flights, trains, buses and ferries inside one door-to-door journey. It searches flights worldwide and ground routes mainly across Europe and Türkiye, and ranks every option on price, total duration and number of transfers.
The aim is to build workable alternative routes by bringing flight, train, bus and ferry options together, above all for cities that are hard to reach directly.
Door to door
Flight, train, bus and ferry can be different legs of the same journey. Routavio looks at the place you actually want to reach, not only at the nearest airport.
How routes are ranked
Options are ranked on measurable criteria: price, total duration, number of transfers and the shape of the route.
Where the data comes from
A large part of the rail and public transport times comes from timetables that operators and open data sources publish in GTFS format. Flight fares come from live searches across several flight booking sites and from fares Routavio saw earlier, shown with the day it saw them. Bus and train fares come from partner searches and also carry the day they were seen.
We do not take bookings
Routavio sells no tickets, takes no payments and reserves no seats. Bookings are completed on the independent third-party providers' own sites.
The problem we are working on
On many real journeys, the most useful route is not simply a flight into the airport closest to your destination.
Flying to a nearby hub and finishing the trip by train, bus or another mode can produce better alternatives on time, on cost or on the number of transfers.
Routavio sets out to weigh these alternative connections inside a single route.
How it works
Routavio brings flight, train, bus and ferry options together to build door-to-door route alternatives. Routavio draws on four kinds of data: operator timetables published as GTFS, live flight searches across several flight booking sites, partner searches for bus and train fares, and fares Routavio saw earlier.
The routes it builds are compared on criteria such as duration, price, number of transfers and connection structure.
When you choose to go ahead with an option, you are sent to the site of the relevant independent third-party provider. Booking and payment are handled entirely by that provider.
Where the project stands
Routavio is an independent project under active development.
If you notice a problem with a route, a price or a departure, or you want to share feedback about the project, you can write to support@routavio.com at any time.
How routes are built, how the data is assessed and which figures are estimates are all explained on the Accuracy page.