Helsinki scraps old Journey Planner: HSL

Helsinki Regional Transport Authority-HSL announced at the end of last week that the old Journey Planner is scrapped as from November 30.

The new Journey Planner is now available at www.reittiopas.fi.

As most people use the Journey Planner on mobile devices, the new planner has been designed in particular for mobile users, said an official press release.

The new Journey Planner has some 150,000 daily users and on peak days the number of users hit up to 200,000.

The new Journey Planner is under constant revisions and modifications, with new features added on a regular basis. Errors are being corrected as they are found. Since the opening of the new Journey Planner, HSL has received a wealth of feedback. The feedback has helped the authority, for example, to correct the map data.

The old Journey Planner has had some 20,000 daily users after the launch of the new Journey Planner in February. During the autumn, HSL has invited feedback from the users of the old planner about how to develop the new Journey Planner to better meet their wishes. The old and new planners have been available side by side for about 10 months.

The old Journey Planner for Cycling and Walking will remain available at pk.reittiopas.fi. The Journey Planner for Cycling and Walking will be shifted to the new planner during the next year.

The new Journey Planner was developed, because the old planner could not process real-time data transmitted from HSL’s vehicles. In addition, the new Journey Planner has been designed using the principles of open data, which means that anyone, not just a certain supplier, can develop the service further.