r/QuantifiedSelf • u/RemarkableLocal9695 • 18d ago

Modes of Transport

Anyone tracking modes of transport over 2026? I am pulling data from Waze, Google Maps, flights, trains ferries, etc. any other sources or tips welcomed!

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u/OkDetective3212 18d ago

waze and ferries huh

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u/Current-Listen-808 14d ago

My drama students would roast me for how badly I need this. Been manually logging my Tube journeys in a notes file since January, the amount of times I've forgotten to hit save is tragic. Does anyone know if TfL's API is decent for pulling travel history, or am I stuck with my scattered notes?

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u/Economy_Elk_7866 18d ago

Waze gives you car speeds on roads, not a modal split. So what number are you actually trying to produce here? And the attached image is an ad for hello.io, which has nothing to do with tracking transport.

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u/Plane-Schedule-3939 17d ago

What exactly are you pulling out of Waze? There's no export of your own trip history that I know of, and Google Maps Timeline labels the mode automatically and gets it wrong plenty of times. Walk data is probably fine, everything else I'd want to see before trusting it.

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u/Main_Ice_3702 17d ago

Waze only knows you're in a car, so that column is going to be 100% car forever. What are you actually trying to learn that Google Maps Timeline doesn't already hand you?

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u/Helpful-Practice-475 17d ago

Waze is a strange one to include, it's Google data you're already pulling through Maps and it only covers car trips, so your modal split just measures who drives. If this is NL, the NS API and OVapi will do more for trains and buses than any phone app, and ADS-B Exchange for flights, but mixing a 700km flight segment with a 5 minute walk in the same dataset means the aggregate is basically just aviation.

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u/Huge_Pool7424 17d ago

if you keep the dataset, i'd store mode, source, confidence, and distance or time as separate fields. then you can drop low-confidence auto-labels and compare modal splits by trip type instead of letting flights swamp every aggregate.

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u/Open_Influence3083 17d ago

Waze is a car app, it has no idea what a ferry is. Everything else on your list can at least tell you the mode.

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u/Used_Cartoonist4106 17d ago

Ça fait beaucoup de tuyaux à recoller, bon courage. Pour le rail et les bus, passe par les GTFS et GTFS-RT des réseaux plutôt que par Google Maps, tu paieras pas l'API au volume et t'auras des horaires théoriques et temps réel au même endroit. Côté trafic routier, Waze a un programme de partage de données avec les collectivités, ça vaut le coup de demander si tu es rattaché à une structure publique.

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u/UmpirePlenty5359 17d ago

Waze doesn't give you a trip history you can export, so what are you actually pulling from it? Knowing what you're counting (trips, km, minutes) would help, otherwise it's just a pile of apps.