❓ F.A.Q.

Träwelling is a free check-in service that lets you tell your friends where you are and where you can log your public transit journeys. In short, you can check into trains and get points for it.

🧑‍💻 Who develops Träwelling?

Träwelling is an open source project. Since 2013, various people have been developing the project. Partly only bugfixes, partly major changes. On GitHub you can view a list of contributors to the code. Additionally, a few people have assisted with the alpha version. You can find them hier.

🛠️ I would like to contribute to Träwelling!

Träwelling is an open source project and everyone can contribute. You can find all the information about it on our GitHub page. We are happy about every contribution - simply create a PullRequest! You can either work on your own ideas or pick a task from our Issues on GitHub.

🤔 Where does the name come from?

The name is an allusion to the well-known “Senk ju for träwelling wis Deutsche Bahn”, which you should have heard in almost every long-distance train of the Deutsche Bahn.

🎉 What are events?

Träwelling brings people together who use the same public transport. Sometimes those people even ride to the same events, without knowing from another!

That’s why we’ve created the Events feature. Anyone can suggest an event in a specific time frame; and once accepted, all users can connect their check-ins to that event.

If you want to create an event, please make sure that events should benefit the entire Träwelling community. Those events can be from the European railway community such as the last course of a train model, hacking events such as GPN, or from the LGBTQ scene such as Cologne Pride.

Events are something special. That’s why we decided to deny suggestions to smaller, local events such as Christmas Markets or city fairs. As always, there are exceptions to that rule.

You’ll find more information at Features > Events

📭 Why don’t I receive a confirmation email?

First of all, please check if the email is in the spam folder. If the email is not in the spam folder, please add ' gertrud@traewelling.de’ to your contacts and request the email again. If the email still does not arrive, please contact us via our contact form.

Please note that in the past there were often problems with Microsoft addresses (e.g. Live, Outlook, Hotmail, …). In this case, please try an e-mail with another provider first.

🚂 Why isn’t my train listed?

We use an interface of the Deutsche Bahn, where not all offers are displayed directly.

If you’re missing a connection, you can create it manually. You can find more information about this in the manual trips section.

📊 How are points calculated?

The topic of points is very complex and we have created a separate page for it.