Price Door-to-Door Travel Options Including Your Time — Free
The cheapest ticket is rarely the cheapest trip once waiting rooms, security queues and station transfers are counted. Add your own hourly value to each option’s clock time and compare the real price of the journey.
The proof surface
Itinerary validators check whether a plan is feasible. This prices competing door-to-door options — ticket plus your time — so a slower but cheaper route earns its place honestly.
Why the flat version breaks
Comparing timetable durations
Published journey times omit the taxi rank, the security queue and the walk to the platform.
Valuing your time at zero
That assumption is legitimate, but it should be a stated choice, not an accident of the spreadsheet.
Ignoring the reliability of each option
A cheap connection that misses regularly costs an unplanned hotel night more often than it saves money.
How to work the door-to-door time chart
Start the clock when you leave home and stop it when you arrive, including the walk, the wait, security and the last connection. A 160-minute flight is usually a five-hour trip.
Use the total price you would pay including seat reservations, baggage and the airport transfer. Mixed currencies only mislead the comparison.
Put a number on your own time for this trip — what you would pay to save an hour, or what an hour of your work earns. Even a modest figure changes the ranking of a slow, cheap option.
Every option above the lowest total is flagged for a deliberate choice: the chart does not decide for you, it shows the money the time saving is worth. In the sample, paying 35 more to save 90 minutes wins when an hour is valued at 20.
What the door-to-door time chart replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Comparing timetable durations | Published journey times omit the taxi rank, the security queue and the walk to the platform. | Enter the ticket cost in one currency |
| Valuing your time at zero | That assumption is legitimate, but it should be a stated choice, not an accident of the spreadsheet. | Set the value of one hour |
| Ignoring the reliability of each option | A cheap connection that misses regularly costs an unplanned hotel night more often than it saves money. | Read the cheapest time-priced option |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Time-and-cost arithmetic from your own journey measurements and a value you set. Not financial or travel advice and not a guarantee of reliability; check current timetables, transfer requirements and refund conditions before booking.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the door-to-door time chart: your travel option | total door-to-door minutes | ticket cost units stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a plotted bar chart sheet
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the door-to-door time chart reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The door-to-door time chart reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
Open the price door-to-door travel options including your time companionBoundary
Time-and-cost arithmetic from your own journey measurements and a value you set. Not financial or travel advice and not a guarantee of reliability; check current timetables, transfer requirements and refund conditions before booking.
What this is built on
- Method: Put a number on your own time for this trip — what you would pay to save an hour, or what an hour of your work earns. Even a modest figure changes the ranking of a slow, cheap option.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: Published journey times omit the taxi rank, the security queue and the walk to the platform. After: the door-to-door time chart shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this door-to-door time chart, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a door-to-door time chart. Return plain rows only: travel option | total door-to-door minutes | ticket cost units. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: travel option | total door-to-door minutes | ticket cost units. No AI response is executed as code.