Journey Planning & Service Confusion in Regional Victoria
Alan Thomas has recently published an excellent map that shows all the various "bus" and coach routes that connect regional Victoria's various cities and towns. An impressive feast considering how difficult it can be to find information about these services. Map showing regional public transport services in Victoria [ Alan Thomas ] It's really disappointing that it takes the will of an independent and passionate advocate to produce such things as the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) should really step up and do it officially. Aside from V/Line train services, journey planning can get very complicated in Regional Victoria. This is due to the multitude of planning tools that exist in the V/Line and PTV silos of information. Those not familiar could think we have two isolated networks as opposed to one integrated one. Many problems could be solved by better integrating V/Line information into existing PTV tools. Currently, the majority of V/Line tools provid