One Way and Multi-Segment Trips

To plan a one way trip, select the "One Way" tab at the top of the trip request form.

The fields that appear on the One Way trip request form are the same as the fields on the round trip request form; the only difference is that there is no information to enter about a return trip. For a detailed explanation of each field on the form, see the round trip request form.

Multi-segment trips

For trips which are not round trips or one way trips, select the "Multi-Segment" tab at the top of the trip request form. There are two main differences between the Multi-Segment trip request form and the more familiar round trip request form:

1. The "from" and "to" fields on the Multi-Segment trip request form do not do "double duty" anymore. For example, the location typed into the first text input field, the "from" field, represents only the departure location of the first segment of your trip, and does not double as the place to which you will ultimately return. Unlike the round trip request form, the Multi-Segment trip request form does not assume that you are coming back to the place you started, or even that the segments are related in any way.
2. The Multi-Segment trip request form enables you to enter up to four independent trip segments, using the "Add Segment" and "Remove Segment" buttons to vary the number of segments.

Otherwise, multi-segment trips are very similar to the other trip types (for a detailed explanation of each field on the form, see the round trip request form).

Let's look at an example. If you want to travel from Boston to Denver on November 14, then on to San Francisco the 16th, then drive to Los Angeles and return to Boston from Los Angeles the 28th, you would specify the following three segments (do not include the driving segment from San Francisco to Los Angeles), like this:

Note that the origin of one segment need not be the same as the previous segment's destination, and you need not return to the first segment's origin in the final segment.