On 16/07/2016 16:26, burfordTjustice wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:49:30 +0100
Clive Page wrote:

So for this rather simple cross-London journey both main journey
planners failed badly

Why would anyone need a machine to plan their trip?

You must be pretty stupid if you can not plan
your own route.

Thank you for those kind and perceptive comments.

As I explained, there are (at least) three routes with similar timings,
and it required detailed study of timetables for Thameslink, EMT, and SE
trains, plus getting estimates of times on Northern, Jubilee, and
Circle/District lines, as well as checking for the effects of weekend
engineering works, to work out the best route for any given departure
time. This is the sort of job that ought to be ideally suited to
computers. We have had on-line journey planners for at least 15 years
now, but it seems to me that they are still stuck in the 20th Century,
and have hardly advanced in all that time.

Of course one can do all the work oneself and in this case I had to but
it took me the best part of half-an-hour, but I really don't understand
why there is not a single on-line journey planner that can do the work
much more quickly and reliably.


-- l
Clive Page