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Does a website exist which shows all available forms of travel, and the ability to book said means of travel?

Without calling a travel agent, I'm in need of a website similar to the big ones for air travel, like expedia/priceline/orbitz/etc, but which searches among various methods of travel. For instance, to travel between major cities or small cities, I'd like to find out, from one website, if I can travel by charter bus, rail train, maglev train, or air. My goal is to fly cheaply to a major city, then find alternative methods of travel to go to nearby towns (and to other nearby towns from the small ones I already traveled to) which may be 3-5 hours away by driving. The best I have come up with is to use google search terms for two small towns/cities and either train or bus, with no consistent success for something along the lines of "travel between ___ and ___ for $xx.xx with charter bus company A, train company D, or airline company A". Searching at greyhound.com or amtrak.com is helpful, but only if I do individual searches for every pair of cities to find out if they commute or not, and then going to every single OTHER bus company to see if they provide service among the 30 different pairs. If there exists a website, like expedia.com, where I can input travel destinations between syracuse and williamsport, or waco and abilene and be shown all available methods of travel rather than just airlines (the many different charter bus companies, all airlines, trains/maglev, and others I may not be aware of) and choose just as I would with expedia (which is airline only), I would love to know the name of the website.

Public Comments

  1. There's no single site that will do that. (You are looking for Public Transit: charter buses generally are privately hired for specific purposes.) www.busjunction.com aggregates buses for some companies, but it only covers a few cities, and not all options at that. There seems to be a project on Wikipedia to add Transportation as a option to town entries. If you look up Harrisburg, PA for example, you'll see what bus, train, and air companies serve the city. Not all cities and towns have, but many do. You can also use the links on the American Public Transit Association to see transit resources by state. http://www.apta.com/resources/links/Pages/default.aspx
  2. Hmmm... thats a lot to ask. I dont use all of that stuff however if i had to pick one I would agree with the above poster however I would add http://www.travelquotelive.com to the mix as it has few more features.
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