Example: project team of 7 people from Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin

Your best meeting point: Berlin

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Rail when the ride takes at most 4 hours, otherwise a flight. Distances as the crow flies.
Rail time: 20 minutes plus 1 minute per 2 km, at least 40 minutes. Flight time: 25 minutes plus 1 minute per 10 km.
Buffer per journey: 20 minutes at the station, 100 minutes at the airport. Getting there is not included.
Fares per journey: rail €20 plus €0.25 per km, flight €45 plus €0.15 per km. Coloqa reference values, not tariffs.
Hotel: a typical corporate rate at the meeting point, one night fewer than days. Anyone travelling more than 3 hours arrives the evening before. Anyone travelling up to 90 minutes commutes daily.
CO₂: rail 26 g per passenger-km over 120% of the straight-line distance (German Environment Agency, TREMOD 2024). Flights 160 g per passenger-km (Coloqa reference value).
Anyone living at the meeting point doesn’t travel and needs no hotel. All amounts in euros.
The travel check uses real connections, fares and hotels.

Berlin

€215 more expensive · 6 min shorter · 31 kg more CO₂

€549 more expensive · 52 min longer · 132 kg less CO₂

Person	From	Mode	Round trip	Nights	Cost
Person 1	Munich	Flight	5 h 50 min	1	approx. €377
Person 2	Hamburg	Rail	5 h 36 min	1	approx. €303
Person 3	Hamburg	Rail	5 h 36 min	1	approx. €303
Person 4	Frankfurt	Rail	8 h 24 min	2	approx. €522
Person 5	Frankfurt	Rail	8 h 24 min	2	approx. €522
Person 6	Berlin	on site	0 min	0	approx. €0
Person 7	Berlin	on site	0 min	0	approx. €0

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