1. The map underneath
Your start and destination are located on the real Lagos road network, with current traffic. That gives an honest baseline: how long this trip takes if nothing clever happens.
How DanfoSmart plans your journey
DanfoSmart is built to reduce total journey friction, not distance. The shortest route on a map is often the worst route in Lagos.
2. Lagos transport knowledge
On top of the map sits what commuters know: danfo and keke corridors, BRT lanes, Blue and Red line stations with their roadside gates, ferry jetties, early-alight points, pedestrian bridges and inner-road feeders out of estates.
3. Several honest options
Instead of one answer, we build different kinds of journeys — straight danfo, BRT for the long stretch, train-assisted, keke through the inner roads, ferry, bridge crossings — so you can pick the one that suits your day.
4. Scoring the whole journey
Each option is compared against the baseline on total time, waiting, transfers, walking, fare, availability, confidence and safety. A route only wins when the complete journey is genuinely better.
5. Plain instructions
The winning options are turned into steps you can act on: where to stand, which way the vehicle is heading, how many stops before you get down, and where to cross.
6. Your feedback closes the loop
Confirmations, wrong-stop reports and fare updates feed straight back into the knowledge layer, so tomorrow's plan is better than today's.
The rules we don't break
Short walks only
No single walking stretch longer than the walk cap, and never two walking legs back to back. If a station is further than that, we find you a keke or danfo feeder to the roadside gate instead.
Straight buses first
If one vehicle can take you there, we show it before anything with changes. Transfers must earn their place.
BRT for the long haul
BRT shines over long stretches. For short hops it is penalised — walking to a BRT terminal for two stops is not an improvement.
Early alighting, carefully
Getting down early is only suggested when the remaining traffic, walking, waiting and onward connection genuinely add up to a shorter journey. Traffic alone is not a reason.
Pedestrian bridges when they help
A bridge is recommended when it removes a detour or links two rides — not simply because it exists on the road.
Night filtering
After dark, low-confidence inner streets, lonely footpaths and restricted waterways drop out of your options, even when they would be faster.
A shortcut is not automatically a better route. An early alight is not automatically an optimisation. A route is better only when the complete journey is better.
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