Search for Swiss public transport stations by name or partial name.

Use this tool to resolve a place name to one or more canonical station records before calling get_connections or get_stationboard, or to disambiguate between stations with similar names (e.g. "Bahnhof").

Find upcoming train, tram, bus, or boat connections between two stations.

Use this tool when the user asks for travel options between two named places in Switzerland (e.g. "next train from Bern to Zürich" or "how do I get from Lugano to Lausanne tomorrow at 8?"). Station names are resolved by the upstream API, so common spellings work directly.

Show the next departures from a Swiss public transport station.

Use this tool when the user asks "what's leaving from ?" or wants the live departure board for a specific stop, without a target destination in mind.

Return currently active rail-traffic disruptions on the Swiss network.

Use this tool when the user asks "are there any disruptions today?", "is the line to X working?", or wants context on whether to expect delays on a route. Source: SBB rail-traffic-information feed.

Report fixed facilities at a Swiss station: elevator, WiFi, step-free access, waiting room.

Use this tool when the user asks about accessibility, amenities, or what to expect at a station (e.g. "does Bern have step-free access?", "is there WiFi at Zürich HB?").

Return how busy a Swiss station typically is (average daily passengers).

Use this tool when the user asks "how busy is X?", "is it a major station?", or wants context for travel-time/connection planning.

Find the latest realistic train back to home_station tonight.

Use this tool when the user asks "when's the last train home from ?" or wants reassurance about staying out late. Looks at connections departing around 22:00 (or after_time if given) and returns the latest one, plus a human-readable summary.

Plan an evening out: outbound options now plus the latest viable return.

Use this tool when the user is thinking about going somewhere for the evening and wants to know both how to get there and the safest last train back home.

Daily commute snapshot: next connections home → work plus any active disruptions.

Use this tool for a quick morning sanity-check ("how's my commute looking?"). Combines opendata.ch connections with SBB rail-traffic-information.

Chain two connections with a deliberate layover at a chosen station.

Use this tool when the user wants to break a journey on purpose — to grab food at a hub, meet someone for an hour at a midway station, or sightsee briefly. Books the first leg ending at the layover, then the next leg starting at layover_minutes after arrival.

Find connections and annotate them with station-level accessibility info.

Note: transport.opendata.ch does not expose vehicle- or wagon-level accessibility. Annotation is based on station-level data from SBB's PRM (Persons with Reduced Mobility) dataset for the endpoint stations only. For wagon-level accessibility, use SBB's official "Reisende mit Handicap" service.

Find connections and annotate each leg with a bike-allowed heuristic.

Heuristic only: S/RE/IR/R lines typically allow bikes without reservation, IC/EC/ICE require reservations (and on some routes do not allow bikes at all), buses and trams generally do not allow bikes. Always verify on sbb.ch/velo for the actual journey.