Across the continent, flights are priced at a fraction of the cost of train tickets, hampering the growing number of people who want to travel sustainably. The big question is: why?
If you account for check in/boarding times at the airport times are not so different either. However, one datapoint does not give a good overview of the situation and I found with most of my travel plans trains were more expensive than planes for the same routes within europe.
Not only check in/boarding, also location. Most train stations are within the city, most times even in the center.
Traveling to my home is faster door to door using train, even if thee ride is 3 hours longer. Also you can carry large luggage, food, drinks, use your phones internet and usually have more comfortable seats.
Eu train companies should (according to EU policies) support one out of two open API standards (gtfs or netex), though they might be difficult to find.
There are a number of projecta that implement these, one of my favorites is
https://direkt.bahn.guru/ which shows direct train connections for any (many/most?) European cities with the uae of DBs APIs (sadly it’s currently down until new DB APIs are up again). Github: https://github.com/juliuste/direkt.bahn.guru
If you account for check in/boarding times at the airport times are not so different either. However, one datapoint does not give a good overview of the situation and I found with most of my travel plans trains were more expensive than planes for the same routes within europe.
Not only check in/boarding, also location. Most train stations are within the city, most times even in the center.
Traveling to my home is faster door to door using train, even if thee ride is 3 hours longer. Also you can carry large luggage, food, drinks, use your phones internet and usually have more comfortable seats.
YMMV.
Here you can find more examples of travel times: EU train travel map
Eu train companies should (according to EU policies) support one out of two open API standards (gtfs or netex), though they might be difficult to find.
There are a number of projecta that implement these, one of my favorites is https://direkt.bahn.guru/ which shows direct train connections for any (many/most?) European cities with the uae of DBs APIs (sadly it’s currently down until new DB APIs are up again). Github: https://github.com/juliuste/direkt.bahn.guru
There is also the official EU night train map which I frequently use https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/
https://omio.com/ is pretty good as well.