Comfortable train travel even if it takes time! Transit NAVITIME "Slow route with stops at each station" started to be provided

"It's fine to transfer to a commuter express or a limited express and get there as soon as possible, but I'd rather take my time without worrying about changing trains."

"Since I have a child, I want to sit down and go slowly on a local train that is relatively empty without changing trains."

"Transfer NAVITIME" responded to such needs, and started offering a "slow route with stops at each station" from December 14th.

This "slow route with local trains" searches for transfers from the departure point to the destination, and in addition to the usual search results (up to 4 cases), it proposes routes that can be reached only by local trains with a small number of transfers. function.

No special settings are required on the user side.

Automatically displayed when there is a candidate route when searching for a route. If there is a route that corresponds to the "slow route with stops at each station", you will be able to compare and choose from up to 5 routes.

Transfer NAVITIME supports this "slow route with stops at each station", and the required time and number of transfers for routes using stops at each station are displayed, making it possible for users to select a more comfortable route.

For example, while looking at the congestion icon of the existing function, it is possible to search for routes that can be reached by local trains that tend to be relatively empty.

In addition, by using trains that stop at each station, it is said that it is useful as a route that makes it easy to get off midway, such as when traveling with children, when you want to sit as much as possible, or when you are worried about poor physical condition.

In terms of technology, the train types considered as local trains are set to trains that are guided by railway operators as "local trains", "local trains", etc.

Furthermore, instead of displaying routes that use only local trains as they are, we have made it possible to display trains that use local local trains and that have fewer transfers than other routes as routes.

It is designed to show the optimal route considering the overall travel cost, such as not displaying routes that take an extremely long time or detour routes.

As mentioned at the beginning, as travel needs change due to the corona crisis, users say, "I want to use an open route rather than the shortest and cheapest", "I want to use a local train instead of a limited express or rapid train", and "I don't want to change trains". I want to know a route that can be reached by a single train to Navitime Japan.

This time's "slow route with local train stops" was not displayed because it was judged to be less advantageous in the conventional route search that can reach the destination quickly. Considering this, it was realized by tuning the route search engine.