
Multimodal trip planners and passenger information systems in Finland |

Journey.fi guides you in the Finnish public transport
connections providing door-to-door route suggestions in and between the
following cities:
• Metropolitan area: Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, Vantaa
• Tampere, Oulu, Vaasa, Kuopio, Mikkeli
• Joensuu, Lappeenranta
In addition to the above-mentioned local transport, the system includes
• VR's (Finnish railways) train timetables, and
• long-distance bus timetables
Currently the system holds approximately 18 million address numbers,
170,000 street names, 190,000 service lines and more than 20,000 stops.
The time frame of the timetables is around one month.
YTV door-to-door Journey Planner gives you advice on the best public transport
connection to your destination within the Helsinki region (Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, Vantaa).
YTV journey planner is very popular and has recieved a lot of positive feedback from the end users.
Site handles over 320,000 page requests per day.
System holds approximately 320,000 address numbers, 30,000 service lines and over 6,000 stops.
These include trains, buses, trams, metro and ferry. Timetables are valid for one month.
TKL door-to-door Journey Planner gives you advice on the best public transport
connection to your destination within the Tampere region
System holds approximately 50,000 address numbers, 4,000 service lines and around 1,200 stops.
Timetables are valid for one season at the time.
Koskilinjat door-to-door Journey Planner gives you advice on the best public transport
connection to your destination within the Oulu region
System holds approximately 250,000 address numbers, 10,000 service lines and around 1,300 stops.
Timetables are valid for multiple seasons.
Kampin keskus (Kamppi Centre) is the newest business centre and also an important
traffic junction with its new bus terminal and underground connections right in the heart
of Helsinki city. The construction of the Kamppi Center will comprise a new underground
Long-Distance Coach Station (700 departures daily), a goods station, the Espoo Coach Terminal
(1,000 departures daily), a department store, apartment buildings as well as commercial and
office premises including parking facilities. Information system was build together with Insta
Visual Solutions Oy.
In YTV's timetable pages there are a lot of data as all pages done in
three languages (fi,se,en). In total system has over 17,000 html pages for lines
and stops. Pages are generated using quite complex logic from the trip planner database.
There are for example 10 different templates for line timetables, where some of them combine train
and bus timetables. System tries to minimize use of dynamic content due to load, but it has also
comprehensive search functionality and users can customize stop timetables to their needs.
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