Spick Me — Swiss public transport

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Tools (6)

• find_place

  Look up what a place name means in the Swiss public-transport network: stations and stops, street addresses, and named places (a university, a museum, a mountain), ranked best first, each with a stable place_id. Use it when the user names a place you are not sure of, when another tool answered that a name is ambiguous, or to get coordinates for a place. You do not need it before plan_journey or departures for ordinary names — those tools accept names directly and say how they read them. Inputs: query is A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place ("stop:8503000"). Names are read the way a rider types them; an ambiguous name returns candidates instead of a guess. limit is how many candidates to return (1–10, default 5). near is an optional latitude/longitude that breaks ties between equally good matches.

• plan_journey

  Find the best connections by train, tram, bus, boat and mountain railway between two places in Switzerland, from Spick Me's own routing engine over the official Swiss timetable. Door to door: an address or a named place works as well as a station, and the walk to and from the nearest stops is included. Use it for "how do I get from A to B", "the next connections from Olten to Zürich", "when is the next train to …", "I need to be in Bern by 9" — it gives departure and arrival times, changes and platforms. Prefer it to the departure board for any question with a destination. Every journey comes with a picture_url: a link that opens a ready-made image of the connection the user can look at or share — offer it when a picture would help. Inputs: from and to are each A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place

• departures

  List the next departures from one station or stop, as the board on the platform would: time, line, direction, platform, kind of vehicle, and the next stops it calls at. Use it for "what leaves from Bern in the next hour", "when is the next tram from Bellevue", or to see how often a place is served. With to, it lists only what calls at that station later, each with its arrival time there — "trains from Olten to Zürich HB" — including trains whose destination is further on. For connections that may need a change, or door to door, use plan_journey. Inputs: station is A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place ("stop:8503000"). Names are read the way a rider types them; an ambiguous name returns candidates instead of a guess. If it is an address or coordinate, the nearest stop is used and named in the answe

• plan_day_out

  Plan a whole day of public transport with time spent at each stop: the train there, the hours somewhere, the connection on, and the way home — each leg timed from when the previous stay actually ends. This is Spick Me's day-out planner; no plain journey planner answers this in one call. Use it for "a day trip from Bern to Grindelwald with four hours hiking, then dinner in Interlaken", "visit Thun, Spiez and Interlaken today", or an evening out and back. For a single A-to-B trip, use plan_journey. Inputs: start is A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place ("stop:8503000"). Names are read the way a rider types them; an ambiguous name returns candidates instead of a guess. stops is the list of places in order (1–12), each with stay_minutes (default 120; 0 means pass through without stopping) or leave_at (

• reachable_area

  List every station and stop in Switzerland reachable from one place within a number of minutes by public transport, nearest first, with the earliest arrival at each. One call answers what would otherwise be hundreds of journey searches. Use it for "where can I get to from Bern in 45 minutes", "which towns are within an hour's commute of Zug", catchment areas and isochrones. For the travel time between specific places, use travel_time_matrix; for how to make a particular journey, plan_journey. Inputs: from is A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place ("stop:8503000"). Names are read the way a rider types them; an ambiguous name returns candidates instead of a guess. (an address or coordinate is snapped to its nearest stop, which the answer names). departure is when to leave: Swiss local time in ISO 8601

• travel_time_matrix

  Compute the public-transport travel time in minutes from each of several origins to each of several destinations in Switzerland, for one departure time. One search per origin, however many destinations — built for comparing locations: which office site is best reached from where staff live, which flat has the shortest commutes, how well a venue is connected. Use it when there are several places on either side. For one pair with the actual connection, use plan_journey; for everywhere reachable, reachable_area. Inputs: origins and destinations are lists of places, each A station or stop name ("Zürich HB", "Bern", "Lausanne, Flon"), an address ("Bahnhofstrasse 1, Winterthur"), a named place ("ETH Zürich", "Kunsthaus"), a coordinate as "geo:47.3769,8.5417", or a place_id returned by find_place ("stop:8503000"). Names are read the way a rider types them; an ambiguous name returns candidates instead of a guess. (addresses and coordinates are snapped to their nearest stop, named in the answ