--- title: "Commute time map: build a useful real estate website page" description: "Plan a commute time map for your real estate website. 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Show the travel mode, time limit, journey direction, and selected arrival or departure time beside the result. Add address-level checks and a way to ask you about the shortlisted homes. A travel-time map draws the area reachable within a chosen journey time. Its boundary is called an isochrone. It follows the transport network rather than drawing a straight-line distance circle. TravelTime's map explains that distinction and supports driving, public transport, cycling, and walking. [TravelTime's map and explanation](https://app.traveltime.com/). Use the workflow below as a website brief. It proposes what to build and how to review it. It does not predict how many inquiries the page will produce. ## Start with the buyer's destination and journey direction Ask the visitor which destination they need to reach and how they intend to travel. Let them choose the acceptable journey time. Keep those choices visible after the map loads. For the journey to work, specify an arrival search anchored at the workplace. That asks which starting locations can reach the destination by the selected time. A departure search asks where someone can go after leaving the selected location. TravelTime documents these as separate searches. [TravelTime's isochrone reference](https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/isochrones). Do not use a departure map from work as the answer to a morning arrival question. Ask your developer to demonstrate the search direction before approving the page. Review the return trip as a separate question with its own settings. For a buyer balancing several destinations, let the brief distinguish homes that satisfy every selected commute from homes that satisfy any selected commute. TravelTime's API supports intersections and unions of travel-time shapes. Specify which result the website should show. [TravelTime's shape-combination reference](https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/isochrones). Keep the choice of destination with the visitor. Avoid assigning a workplace or lifestyle to someone based on the neighborhood they select. ## Make the assumptions readable outside the map Put the following information beside the result. Treat this table as your proposed acceptance standard. | Setting | What the page should make clear | | --- | --- | | Destination | Selected address and confirmed map pin | | Journey direction | Travel toward the destination or away from it | | Travel mode | Driving, transit, cycling, or walking, as supported by the chosen provider | | Time limit | Maximum journey time selected by the visitor | | Travel date and time | Departure or arrival setting, with the local time zone | | Data source | Provider and link to its explanation of the calculation | | Calculation status | Current result, loading, unavailable, or retained earlier result | | Address check | How to inspect the journey for a particular home | Ask the map provider which traffic assumptions, transit schedules, and walking connections its calculation uses. Confirm what the estimate includes before describing it as a total door-to-door commute. Ask about parking, waiting, and the walk from the arrival point to the actual destination. Do not label the map as live traffic unless the selected product's documentation supports that statement. Require the provider to explain coverage gaps and unavailable modes for your market. Use a separate route check when discussing a specific property. Google Maps documents current route traffic and typical traffic by hour on Android. Keep that check identified as a different source, with its own settings. [Google's commute-planning instructions](https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7565193?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid). ## Choose a website component you can maintain Decide whether the page needs an external map link, a dated illustration, or an interactive component. Start with the simplest option that answers the visitor's question and has confirmed display permission. An external tool link needs a clear explanation of what the visitor should enter. Test the destination and keep your own contact route visible on the page. Do not claim that the external result automatically filters your website's listings. For a static illustration, confirm reproduction rights and attribution requirements first. Publish the source and calculation settings beside it. Describe it as a fixed example. Do not add controls that imply the image changes with the visitor's selections. For a custom component, give the developer a bounded sequence: confirm the destination pin, submit the selected settings, display the returned contour, and preserve those settings beside it. TravelTime's API uses coordinates, transport mode, journey duration, and departure or arrival time. It supports GeoJSON output for the shapes. [TravelTime's map API reference](https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/isochrones). Have the developer handle credentials outside public website files. Specify request limits, account ownership, usage charges, and failure behavior before agreeing the integration. Confirm the provider's terms for public commercial display, attribution, and any storage or reuse of results. Ask for separate confirmation of the map, address lookup, base-map display, and listing connection. Keep unanswered terms marked unresolved in the brief. ## Check individual homes before calling them a match Use the shaded area to explore possibilities. Require an address-level calculation before presenting a home as meeting the selected commute limit. TravelTime's time-filter service calculates journeys between specified locations. Its response can include travel times and a separate list of unreachable locations. Use that distinction when planning property results. [TravelTime's time-filter reference](https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/travel-time-distance-matrix). Require the listing check to use the same destination, mode, direction, and time settings as the contour. Confirm each property's location before calculating its journey. Ask the developer to show how an unavailable result appears to the visitor. Do not display a missing calculation as a zero-minute trip. Do not quietly include a home when its journey could not be checked. Keep unavailable results separate from homes that pass the requested calculation. Have the developer explain any boundary simplification. TravelTime warns that removing holes from its polygons can reduce accuracy. Review that choice before treating the shaded region as uniformly reachable. [TravelTime's polygon settings](https://docs.traveltime.com/api/reference/isochrones). If your website has no approved listing connection, offer neighborhood information and an inquiry instead. Name which areas the map overlaps. Avoid claiming that every home in a partially covered neighborhood meets the selected limit. ## Carry the map question into the buyer inquiry Place the contact option beside the map and its result list. Let the visitor ask for help reviewing homes against the commute they selected. Keep the calculation available before requiring contact information. With the visitor's agreement, carry the destination, mode, time limit, journey direction, and selected travel time into the inquiry. Include the source page and any homes they chose. Let the visitor review those details before submitting. Treat a workplace address as optional inquiry information. Explain which details will reach the agent. Confirm the receiving destination and the handling of submitted information before connecting the form. Ask only for the contact details needed to answer. Give each field a descriptive label. W3C explains that labels associated with controls allow assistive technology to identify them correctly. Apply that guidance to the map inputs and inquiry form. [W3C's control-label guidance](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/forms/labels/). Arrange a marked test using details you control. Confirm receipt at the agreed destination. Compare the received message with the submitted map settings. Record the page, test time, result, and receiving person. Count a received buyer request separately from a map load or changed time limit. Use those interactions to understand the page's use, while retaining the actual inquiry as a separate observation. ## Give sellers a separate property conversation For a seller, use the page to explain how you would verify a property's access to buyer-selected destinations. Require the address, source, calculation settings, and check date before publishing a specific journey estimate. Keep the seller invitation separate from help finding homes. Ask whether the owner wants to discuss presenting their property on the website. Carry that purpose into the receiving message so it does not arrive as an unidentified map question. Avoid turning a commute estimate into a claim about a property's value or sale speed. Show the calculation's scope and invite a property-specific discussion. Use approved evidence before describing any result from your own client work. ## Test changing inputs and failure states before approval Require the developer to run these checks on a phone and computer. Save the actual result for each check. The table defines proposed tests, not completed tests on a live website. | Test | Required behavior | | --- | --- | | Destination change | Pin, settings summary, and result identify the new destination | | Time or mode change | Result and summary agree with the selected inputs | | Arrival versus departure | The request uses the intended journey direction | | Return-trip check | The page retains the separate return-trip settings | | Combined destinations | The page explains whether all or any commute limits must be met | | Delayed response | An older response cannot replace the latest selected result | | No result or provider failure | The page explains the failure and offers a contact or external-check option | | Property check | A home's travel result matches the current map settings | | Keyboard and phone use | Inputs, results, and inquiry route remain usable without dragging the map | | Inquiry receipt | The agreed destination receives the visitor's request and approved context | Keep page text and the contact option available when the map fails. Reject a blank panel that leaves the visitor without instructions. Name who checks provider notices, repairs the component, and reviews public journey claims. Repeat the affected tests after changing the provider, request settings, map display, listing connection, or receiving inbox. ## Bring the commute question into the whole website brief Send your current website, intended market, map provider, proposed settings, display permissions, and inquiry destination. Include the acceptance checks and the person who will maintain the component. Confirm any custom map work in writing before treating it as included. Scale With Search's [whole website fix for real estate agents](/for/real-estate) is $2,000. The published scope includes repairing the inquiry path and proving receipt at the agreed destination. 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