Transport comparison sites: discover their platforms and services!

This tab could be considered a sub-section of the "Destinations served in Europe" tab, focused solely on French territory. Its purpose is to show the presence of each transport ticket comparison site on French soil. You, the user, will then be able to easily find out which ticket comparison site is best suited for choosing your tickets, depending on your destination and your route.

Some comparison sites, for example, will only serve the largest cities in France, while others cover all French stations. Very few of them will try to connect underserved areas by extending their geographical presence to the most inaccessible corners of France! Find out which comparison sites offer which type of service!

A transport ticket comparison site, as the name suggests, compares tickets from different modes of transport. But what could these be? Well, it all depends on the comparison site!

Indeed, when it launches its ticket comparison service, each site chooses to focus on a particular type of transport. Take CheckMyBus for example. This comparison site is specifically dedicated to bus journeys around the world! Other comparison sites like Kayak are more diversified and offer train ticket comparison on major routes, as well as plane tickets.

Lastly, another type of comparison site such as Tictactrip offers comparison across at least three types of transport and, on top of that, promotes intermodality (see previous tab).

Today, there are many comparison platforms for all your bus journeys.

With their search engines that let you find long-distance buses, you can compare their prices, travel times, and also the different providers offering bus tickets.

After that, you can book your bus ticket and travel with total ease!

Here is the list of bus comparison sites found on the internet:

• Bus Radar,
• Check My Bus,
• Comparabus.

Note: These online bus ticket comparison sites only offer bus transport.

Don't forget that Tictactrip offers your bus, train and carpooling tickets in France and Europe, all on a single platform!

Some transport ticket comparison sites develop, beyond simple ticket comparisons, algorithms that enable intermodality. But what is intermodality, or multimodality, and how is it implemented, you might ask?

Well, it's quite simple! Intermodality is defined by Wikipedia as: "the use of several modes of transport during a single journey.". It brings real added value since it allows for significant savings on your journeys.

Intermodality is implemented notably through combinations of transport, as indicated by the Wikipedia definition. These combinations take the form of a journey with a change between a bus and a train, or between a carpool and a bus, for example... These combinations, optimized according to ticket schedules, destinations served and other factors, will allow for significant savings without necessarily lengthening the journey! But this type of offer is not provided by all ticket comparison sites — find out on our site which ones do!

In addition to bus comparison sites, there are many platforms online for comparing flights and accommodation.

If you're travelling abroad or to far-off destinations in Europe, it's worth saving a bit of money.

So, to travel at the best price, here's the list of flight and accommodation comparison sites:

• Easy Voyage,
• Go Voyages,
• Kiwi,
• Mister Fly,
• Opodo,
• Skyscanner.

Now it's up to you to choose who you want to travel with!

There are many comparison sites for train, bus and carpooling tickets in France.

If you need to travel somewhere, you'll need to think about your journey time, the mode of transport used, and also the price.

To help you out, here are the various comparison sites offering train, bus and carpooling:

• Tictactrip,
• Rome 2 Rio,
• Trainline,
• Kayak,
• Liligo,
• Omio,
• OUI.sncf,
• Voyages SNCF,
• SNCF Connect.

These comparison sites offer train deals, as well as bus and carpooling.

To find out more about the offers, questions and services of a particular comparison site, check out our dedicated pages for these comparison sites!

Transport ticket comparison sites also have the ability to serve whatever geographic areas "they wish", depending on their partner transport companies. Indeed, it is the offers from these companies that give transport comparison sites their means of comparison.

A bus comparison site will not, as you might guess, have the same routes and therefore not the same destinations served as a flight comparison site! That's why our "Destinations served" tab is important. Tictactrip has chosen to limit itself to Europe, as its primary goal is to ensure the connection of underserved French territories and then European ones. Even within Europe, the various comparison sites will most likely not serve the same destinations. Do you live in a small town, far from everything? Tictactrip is probably already there, or will soon serve your area! The least popular routes are at the heart of our strategy to connect our underserved territories!

This is once again a service offered by online ticket comparison platforms. In short, it involves updating the availability and price of offers from transport companies in real time. To illustrate this, imagine that all seats for a Paris-Lyon journey are booked; the ticket comparison site will get this information immediately and will stop showing this journey offer. Similarly, imagine that the price of a journey rises or falls significantly; the ticket comparison site will have its data automatically updated to reflect all the price fluctuations and variations.

This is a service that is now essential for a transport ticket comparison site. Indeed, if one of these comparison platforms doesn't update journey prices in real time, users would be misled and unable to truly compare transport tickets for the journey they want. So this is indeed an essential service, but do all transport ticket comparison sites offer it?

What are integrated purchases?

This is simply a service that a ticket comparison platform may or may not offer. This service is the possibility of buying all your transport tickets directly on the ticket comparison site's website! This service indeed saves time and makes the process easier. You no longer need to be redirected to the partner company's website and buy your tickets one by one if your journey requires several types of transport and therefore several different tickets.

Today, most ticket comparison websites earn money through commissions from their partner companies based on the volume of redirects they generate. Offering integrated purchases is therefore an unprecedented advantage for the user, who will save time and therefore, as the saying goes, money! Well, yes, that's exactly the case, since ticket comparison sites are indeed there to help you make savings!

What's more, imagine a ticket comparison site promoting intermodality and transport combinations — users would end up getting lost across multiple redirects to different companies. On top of that, they would then have to search for and buy each ticket one by one without making mistakes on the schedules... In short, find out which comparison sites offer this fantastic service!