Bike and Ride

Bike and Ride is a REST service that helps you calculate a route to your destination using a bike and public transportation. With Bike and Ride, you can get instructions for every step of the route.

The Bike and Ride solution gives you route suggestions for the following use case:

1. Use your bike to cycle to an optimal public transport station along the route.
2. Transfer to public transit and reach your destination.

Combining bicycle use with public transit may yield the following benefits:

• Reach areas that are not well-connected to public transportation.
• Save time and money on parking.
• Reduce fare cost.
• Reduce commuting time.
• Reduce CO2 emissions and ease traffic congestion.

Popular Optional Parameters to Bike Share and Ride Requests

Useful parameters to refine queries to Bike and Ride Routing include the following:

• Specify a departure time (current time by default).
• Request optimal routes for a specified arrival time.
• Request a travel summary to see trip duration and distance at one glance.
• Restrict routes to specific transit modes, such as rail and metro only.
• Set walking speed.
• Limit how many changes or transfers the journey may include.
• Request turn-by-turn navigation.
• Request route geometry in HERE Flexible Polyline format in order to display the route on a map.
• Receive information about traffic incidents along the way.

Explore the possible parameters to the Intermodal Routing API v8 request as described in the API Reference.

Further Reading

For more information on the services and transport types of the Intermodal Routing API v8, see the Intermodal Services & Transport Types section.

For more information on how to use the Bike and Ride service of the Intermodal Routing API v8, see how to Calculate a Bike and Ride Route.