Wrong caculation bus

openrouteservice directions
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Hi everyone,

Just checked the route from A to B (Berlin Munich) and for a car it gave me 6.5 hours for a car and 10.5 hours for a bus. It seems to me wrong.
Can it be that I should’ve given more details?

With kind regards and thanks for the help,
Barney

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Hi Barney,

thanks for your feedback! Could you please provide a reproducible example illustrating the described issue? When I query for a route between Berlin and Munich for car and bus the travel times are 5:15 and 10:36, respectively.

Cheers,
Andrzej

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Dear Andzej,

thank you for the fast response.
I attach printscreens. Maybe it could help?

Cheers,
Barney

car
car1908×926 318 KB

bus
bus1920×922 318 KB

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Thanks! Why do you think the travel time estimates provided by ORS are wrong, and what times would you expect? Cheers!

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Because I used this platform:

that also has* LKW function and the result is maybe 1.5 hours longer for the same route…
Except that Flixbus manages to do it within 7-8 hours

https://shop.flixbus.de/search?departureCity=40d8f682-8646-11e6-9066-549f350fcb0c&arrivalCity=40d901a5-8646-11e6-9066-549f350fcb0c&route=Berlin-München&rideDate=28.05.2024&adult=1&_locale=de&features[feature.enable_distribusion]=1&features[feature.train_cities_only]=0&features[feature.auto_update_disabled]=0&features[feature.webc_search_station_suggestions_enabled]=0&features[feature.darken_page]=1&atb_pdid=7599813e-6d8d-4091-9b43-d696f2334440&_sp=2f8d297b-d1ed-48c9-8700-ff69c37ce057&_spnuid=a449c90d-2703-4867-a241-ba4d399f2516_1716924297731

Cheers!

*Bus and LKW take the same time

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Thanks for your feedback! Agreed, this is indeed weird. Based on the distance and estimated travel time the mean speed for the example route is somewhere around 56 km/h. This is much lower than I would expect it to be considering that the vast majority of the route is covered by a motorway for which according to the docs the assumed travel speed is 80 km/h.

Would you mind opening an issue such that the openrouteservice team can look into it? Cheers!

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Hey Andrzej,

sorry, only now it’s morning here. I’ll do it now. Thank you for your support.

Cheers!

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