Recognising car, bike, train, tram and bus

How does MoveJack recognise the means of transport?

• Bike: motion detection mostly reports cycling, and your top speed stays within what fits a bike (up to 50 km/h). The app decides this on your phone, without internet.
• Tram: most of the route runs along a tram line.
• Train: at least 60 per cent of the checked route points lie by the railway, or the start and end are at a station.
• Bus: you stop systematically at stops; at least 70 per cent of the stops are at a bus stop, and there are at least four stops.
• Otherwise it is a car journey.

Bike, train, bus and tram are fixed vehicles in the app. A recognised journey goes to that vehicle.

Which data goes to a map service?

For the train, tram and bus check, the app sends up to six route points or six places where you stood still to Overpass, a public search service for map data, after the journey. For the station check, a start or end point goes to Nominatim. Without a name or account.

If a paired Bluetooth tag from your car was nearby during the whole journey, the app skips these checks.

Not recording a means of transport

You can turn automatic recording off for each means of transport: My vehicles › Other › choose the bike, train, bus or tram › Register automatically. It is on by default. If it is off, the app does not save a journey it assigns to that means of transport.

If the app does not recognise a tram or bus journey as such, that journey goes to the selected vehicle.