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Sørlandsbanen - The southern railroad in Norway

This sandbox module is only working in Norway, in particular only in the south of Norway. The feature flag to turn it on should only be enabled if you are routing using the norwegian data set.

The railroad in southern Norway is very slow and does not go by the coast where most people live. It is easily beaten by coaches in the area. Despite this, we need to include it in results where it is relevant.

When the feature flag is enabled, two Raptor searches are performed. The first is the regular search - unmodified, as requested by the user. The second search is modified to include train results with Sørlandsbanen. This is achieved by setting a high COACH reluctance. We then take any rail results(if they exist) from the second search and add it two to the results from the first search. The new set of results will contain everything we found in the first search, plus the train results in the second results.

Note! This looks at origin and destination coordinates in addition to the feature flag to enable the second search. It is automatically enabled if: - the OTPFeature.Sorlandsbanen is on. - the origin and/or destination is in the south of Norway. - the search is a long-distance search, origin and destination are fare apart from each other.

Contact Info

  • Entur, Norway

Changelog

  • 2024-10-14: We have used this feature for some time, but now want it in the Sandbox so we do not need to merge it everytime we create a new Entur release.

Configuration

This is turned off by default. To turn it on enable the Sorlandsbanen feature.

// otp-config.json
{
  "otpFeatures": {
    "Sorlandsbanen": true
  }
}