Amazon Location Service announces public transit and intermodal routing

Amazon Location Service today announced support for public transit and intermodal routing in the Routes API. Developers can now use the CalculateRoutes operation with two new travel modes, Transit and Intermodal, to plan journeys that combine public transportation with walking, driving, taxi, and rental segments.

With public transit routing, applications can calculate point-to-point routes using buses, subways, trains, ferries, and other transit types, including walking directions to and from stops, departure and arrival times, and transit line details. Intermodal routing extends this by combining multiple transport types in a single route, supporting common patterns such as park-and-ride (vehicle plus transit), taxi-and-ride (taxi plus transit), and last-mile completion using a taxi or rental. These capabilities help builders deliver applications across mobility, logistics, employee commute, and urban planning use cases that depend on accurate multi-modal route calculation.

Public transit and intermodal routing are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo).

To get started, visit the Amazon Location Service Routes Developer Guide, the Transit Routing and Intermodal Routing documentation pages, or the CalculateRoutes API Reference.