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Transport: Flights, Trains & Cars
Log flights, trains, car rentals, and cruises with departure and arrival endpoints, times, and transit-specific details.
Where to create
Open the Transports tab in the trip planner and click Add, or open the planner from a day view and use the transport shortcut. Transport records appear in the Reservations panel alongside other bookings.
Public transit search
The Add transport dialog has two modes: Manual transport (the classic form) and Automated transport — a public-transit route search powered by Transitous, free open data with no API key or paid provider. The transit button (tram icon) on each day header opens the dialog straight in the Automated mode. (The rename pencil this button replaced moved next to the day name in the day detail panel.)
The mode switch only appears when the trip has a start date and an end date — a transit search needs real dates to depart against. On a trip without dates the dialog opens directly on the manual form; add dates in the trip settings to get the Automated mode back.
- Pick from and to (stop/station search; the day's own places and hotels appear as quick picks), a depart/arrive time, and filter by mode: train, subway, tram, bus, ferry, cable car.
- Rank the results by best route, fewer transfers, or less walking.
- Each result shows local departure/arrival times, duration, transfers, walking time and the line badges in their official colors; expand it for the stop-by-stop breakdown.
- Add to day saves the chosen connection as a first-class transit entry. It slots into the day timeline at its departure time and shows its line badges, transfers and walking time right in the plan. Clicking it opens the journey view: the full stop-by-stop itinerary together with the editable booking fields (title, status, confirmation code, notes), a Change route action that re-runs the search and replaces the itinerary, and delete. In the Transports tab these journeys appear in their own Automated public transit section.
Self-hosters can point the TRANSIT_API_URL environment variable at their own MOTIS instance.
Transport types
Nine types are available: Flight, Train, Bus, Car, Taxi, Bicycle, Cruise, Ferry, and Other.
Common fields
All transport types share these fields:
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Title | Required |
| Departure day | Linked to a trip day |
| Departure time | Optional |
| Arrival day | Linked to a trip day (can differ from departure day) |
| Arrival time | Optional |
| Booking / confirmation code | Optional |
| Status | Pending or Confirmed |
| Notes | Optional free text |
Endpoints
Flights
The departure and arrival fields use the Airport picker — type a city name or IATA code (minimum two characters) to search. Results show the IATA code, airport name, city, and country.
Once you select an airport, the timezone for that airport appears next to the time field. This lets you enter local departure and arrival times without confusion across time zones.
Trains, cars, and cruises
Departure and arrival fields use the generic location picker — search by place name or enter a free-text location. Results come from the maps search service.
If you use car rentals instead of your own Car, the departure field is labelled Pickup date/time and the arrival field is labelled Return date/time.
Flight-specific fields
When the type is set to Flight, two additional fields appear:
- Airline — carrier name (e.g. Lufthansa)
- Flight number — (e.g. LH 123)
Train-specific fields (multi-leg route)
A long-distance rail trip is often several trains on one ticket, so trains use a multi-leg route editor (the same one flights use), not a single flat field block. You build an ordered chain of stations:
- Search each station with the location picker; use Add stop to insert intermediate stations between the start and end.
- Each leg (the segment between two consecutive stations) has its own train number, platform, seat, and its own departure/arrival day and time.
- N stations make N − 1 legs. A simple two-station train is just one leg — enter its train number/platform/seat there.
Trains created before this feature keep working: their existing train number/platform/seat are read as a single leg.
On the map
Transport records with both endpoints set appear as lines on the trip map:
- Flights and cruises render as geodesic great-circle curves that follow the curvature of the Earth.
- Cars, buses, taxis and bicycles follow real roads, routed on demand via a public OSRM router (driving for car/bus/taxi, cycling for bicycle). A straight line shows while the route loads, and is kept if routing fails or the trip is over ~2000 km.
- Trains render as a straight polyline; a multi-leg train draws its full station chain (from → stop → to).
Confirmed bookings are drawn as solid lines; pending bookings use a dashed line. Endpoint markers are shown at each location. For flights, a midpoint label appears along the arc showing the route codes (e.g. ZRH → JFK) and flight duration and distance when enough screen space is available.
See Map-Features for details on how these overlays work.
In the day plan
When a transport is assigned to a day, it appears inline in the day timeline between places. Multi-day transports show phase labels depending on the type:
| Type | Start day | Middle days | End day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | Departure | In transit | Arrival |
| Car / Car rental | Pickup | Active | Return |
| Train / Cruise | Start | Ongoing | End |
A multi-leg train (and a multi-leg flight) instead shows one row per leg, each slotting into its own day at its own time and independently reorderable, rather than a single spanning row.
See Day-Plans-and-Notes for details.
Faster: import the confirmation — If you have a booking confirmation email or PDF, you can skip the form entirely. See Import from booking confirmation in the Reservations guide.
See also: Reservations-and-Bookings · Accommodations · Map-Features · Day-Plans-and-Notes