Budapest GO route planning website

Budapest GO: Integrating Public Transport and Active Mobility

Budapest GO is a generic route planner for public transport and active transport users in the area of Budapest, Hungary. The main objective of the application is to help the city's travelers find the fastest and shortest routes when using a sustainable mode of transport.

Budapest has a dense public transport network with 4 metro lines, 36 tram lines, hundreds of bus lines, with additional suburban and national railway lines used in the city. Budapest also has a shared bike service (BuBi) with 2460 bikes and 212 stations. 

The website has an easy-to-use interface, where the user first has to select the starting and destination points and the departure or arrival time. Walking and public transport are selected by default, the user can select the types of vehicles to avoid, and there is also an option to plan only accessible routes. The walking speed can be set. The route planner can also plan routes by bicycle, where the trade-off between the bicycle friendliness of the route and the brevity of the route can be set. In addition to the cycle-only route, the route planner will also show routes that combine cycling and car travel on routes where this makes sense.

The most unique feature is the ability to plan a route between any two points in the city using the shared bike service (Bubi). When this mode is chosen, the website plans routes that combine Bubi with public transport (where necessary). The website also shows the number of bikes available at each station.

The website and accompanying smartphone app are very popular, as is the Bubi service. However, there is no publicly available data on the use of the website and its features.