The company’s Basic Access option allows up to 100,000 search requests per month, and is available to partners utilising either the API or White Label integrations.

Rome2rio CEO Rod Cuthbert said the company’s goal is to push the broadest possible adoption of multi-modal search.

“With this announcement we’re hoping to help travel sites transition away from first-generation search, where only flight results are returned, over to second-generation search, where flight, rail and other transport options are all displayed.

“Any site that’s serious about selling travel in Europe and Asia has to offer multi-modal search sooner or later, and we’re looking to make the transition as easy as possible. And with new partner enquiries running at two to three per day under the current pricing model, we knew the automated sign-up would be critical once we went to a freemium model,” he said.

The company also announced details of its Commercial Access option. Cuthbert said the Commercial option will appeal to sites and apps with higher volumes and needing the certainty of an SLA and 24/7 support for their integration.

“Clearly the big opportunity for Rome2rio is to power the high volume sites as they adopt multi-modal, door-to-door search. Developing this type of technology in-house is probably out of the question for most of them, and the ability to show their own flight results in-line with our rail, road and sea results will give them the best of both worlds, without too much development effort,” said Cuthbert.

Partners visiting the Rome2rio site are able to access both the API and White Label solutions via the company’s self-serve integration service, which allows partners to create either a White Label account or download API credentials. The sign-up process takes less than a minute.

Rome2rio offers a multi-modal, door-to-door travel search engine that returns itineraries which may include air, train, coach, ferry, mass transit and driving options to and from any location.