Introducing Transport Modes

With transport modes, you can now capture how you traveled for each trip, adding a new layer of context to your timeline.

Whether you flew across continents or took a weekend train ride, tracking your method of travel helps your trip history read more like a narrative. The feature powers new insights on your profile, while keeping your core distance and timeline metrics consistent.

Setting How You Traveled

You can specify your mode of transportation when creating or editing a trip. When adding a trip with natural language, the prompt input tries to detect this from your description with keywords like:

“Train to Berlin last weekend” → Train
“Flew to Tokyo for 2 weeks” → Plane
“Road trip to Big Sur” → Car

You can always override the suggestion or select one manually. We currently support Plane, Train, Bus, Campervan, Car, Motorcycle, Boat, Bicycle, and Walking.

After creating a trip, you can change your selection anytime. Go to any trip, enter edit mode, and update how you traveled.

How Transport Modes Are Used

Once set, the means of travel becomes part of the trip and shows up in your travel timeline. This is intentionally informational and it doesn’t change how we count your travel.

Distance calculations are still based purely on trip coordinates and timeline order. That means a trip marked as “walking” contributes to your total distance the same way a “plane” trip does. Your stats remain consistent and comparable over time, even as you add richer context.

We also use this data to power a Transport Modes statistics card on your profile. The card visualizes your travel habits by showing each mode as a bubble, where bubble size represents how often you use that method of travel.

For each transport mode, we also track the total distance traveled using that method, calculated from the segments between your trips just like your overall travel distance. This gives you a breakdown of both how often and how far you’ve traveled by plane, train, car, or any other mode.

Future Plans

We’re exploring ways to use transport modes for more advanced analytics in the future, like estimating the carbon footprint of your travel or visualizing your most common routes by method.

Missing a mode that our current options don’t quite cover? Want to see different stats around how you travel? We’d love to hear from you. Reach out via email or on X.