9-euro ticket: With a new card, you can find direct connections faster than with the train
Everyone would prefer to get to their destination without having to change trains. But Deutsche Bahn does not make it easy to find direct connections. A new, interactive map changes that and shows all routes without changing trains.
Traveling by train in Germany often means that you have to change trains – often even several times. If you are looking for direct connections, you will find them on the website or in the
Deutsche Bahn app
encounter some difficulties.
That’s why a resourceful developer invented Bahn Direkt. On this map of Europe you will find all direct connections without changing trains to your desired destination or from your starting point. We’ll show you how to do that.
Train direct: How to find all direct connections
To use the Bahn Direkt web app, simply enter a location in the search field at the top right. If there are several results, a small menu appears where you can select the exact location.
A lot of colored dots appear immediately, which should signal the duration of the journey:
- dark green: less than 1 hour
- light green: 1-2 hours
- yellow: 2-4 hours
- orange: 4-6 hours
- red: longer than 6 hours
If you move the mouse over a point, the name of the destination station is displayed. So you can quickly find out what the closest train station is in your area for a direct connection.
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If you click on one of the selected points, you can jump directly to the Deutsche Bahn website for the selected connection or call up the Bahn-Guru price calendar.
Here you can see the best price for this journey. If you click on a day, the view for the different travel times will open – another click on the price will take you to Deutsche Bahn, where you can book the ticket.
This is how Bahn Direkt gets the data
If you are wondering how the web app Bahn Direkt works, you can find it on the
manufacturer page
the answer to that. The application accesses an API
German train
to find all direct connections within the next one to two weeks.
This includes most trains in Central Europe, but there are fewer and fewer data points the further away from Germany you search – i.e. when the routes are not operated by Deutsche Bahn.
The manufacturer also points out that trains from smaller transport companies are often missing – but unfortunately there is no other option than to use the official train data. There is simply no publicly accessible data set about the journeys.
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