20 famous European road trips, each coloured by whether a car towing a caravan may drive it: 10 the whole road, 7 with a bypass, 3 not at all (Stelvio, the Amalfi coast road, the Lake District’s Hardknott/Wrynose loop).

A few things that surprised me while reading the rules:

  • Amalfi coast road (SS163): campers and caravans are banned 06:30–24:00, while motorbikes are exempt from the odd/even number-plate days cars get in summer.
  • Grossglockner: a motorcycle’s day ticket is €36.50 against €46.50 for a car — and a car with a caravan pays the car rate.
  • Geiranger–Hellesylt ferry: about €76 for a car with its driver, €187 for a car + caravan (10–14 m), €61 for a motorbike.

Rules read on 5 Nov from the road authorities and operators (where only a secondary source says it, the page says so). Each road is priced for car, car + caravan, motorhome and motorcycle: https://copilot.travel/maps/famous-road-trips Corrections welcome.

  • tales_origin@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Where did you get these prices and basically the whole data from? Seems like AI just queried a few websites and put it together or did you manually check it?

    • Heikki@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Fair question!

      Every fare and rule comes from the road authority’s or operator’s own page,each row on the page links to its source. I used tools to collect and compare them, and I re-checked the three figures in this post against the sources today: Grossglockner’s €46.50 / €36.50 is on grossglockner.at, and the Geiranger–Hellesylt fares are Fjord1’s 2026 price list (NOK 810 car, NOK 2,000 for 10–14 m, NOK 650 motorcycle, converted to euros).

      Fuel is calculated, not looked up: the EU’s weekly pump prices for each country on the route times a typical consumption. If you spot anything off, tell me and I’ll fix it, database is on the copilot.travel site that holds quite a lot of information.

      • tales_origin@feddit.orgEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Sounds good, I have a website that could need such data, but I have strict requirements for availability, costs and privacy. So best would be to self host or have a open api, do you offer something like that or is your code open source?

        • Heikki@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Thanks! There’s no public API at the moment and the code isn’t open source, but most of the data is open: each map page has a CSV download under CC BY 4.0 (free to use, self-host and change, with a credit to copilot.travel) winter tyres, low-emission zones, compulsory equipment, caravan speed limits, licence rules, gas bottles on ferries and more, with every rows source.

          A CSV for these famous roads is coming in the next few days. Everything is listed at https://copilot.travel/press. If you need something specific, fields, countries, how often it is updated, tell me at a private message what you have on your mind, and lets see what we can do!