Activity 10: Plan a journey.

A plan of my journey to London.


Activity 10

Plan a journey from your home town to London Tottenham court road in London, commencing one hour from when you start the exercise. Contrast the journey by car and by rail.

Write up the results in your blog. Include full details or the journey including dates, times, costs and sources used. State how useful you found the sources in finding real- time information for your journey.


Firstly I went to Google Maps to get an estimate on the time it would take me to get to London, I also took a glance at the route. This was extremely easy and took me about 3 minutes to do.

Then I went to the BBC website and checked the forecast for that day, the weather would be sunny. (According to the forecast)

After that I simply Google searched "Train tickets to London", and within seconds, several websites appeard. I then proceeded to enter the details of my journey into the ticket finder and according to the web site, it would take me an hour and 5 minutes to get to where I wanted to, this was only 6 minutes off Googles estimated time, so I can assume the information i'm recieving is accurate. I was then told that a single ticket on a non-peak day would cost me £27.50. Again, this process took me approximately 3 minutes.

It was then that I was given the option to select which seats I would like (no preference). I was presented with several options about my seating preferences, some of them were: "Table Seat"; "Near Toilet seat"; "Quiet Zone."

On the next page I was presented with the details of my journey, so I could review them before I paid for my tickets. It was then that I was able to actually buy my tickets.

This whole process was very quick and easy to do, in total it took me under 20 minutes to look at the journey route, check the weather and book my tickets. I found it very easy to access real-time information about my journey, this would definately not have been possible if I didn't have access to the internet, and if I had to physically go enquire about tickets.

The only way I could see these services getting better, would be if there was a compliled list off all the services, so I wouldn't have to go on several different websites. A site that could tell me the route, weather and any traffic or roadworks details, would be very helpful.

Bibliography.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
http://www.thetrainline.com/