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Google Maps and Search updates highlight sustainable ways to travel

Updates just in time for Earth Day.

For Maps, users will find low-carbon travel alternatives alongside driving routes while Search picks up long-distance information for trains and buses. Ahead of Earth Day next week, Google is bringing a few updates to Maps and Search that may help users make better-informed choices around more "sustainable" methods of travel. Joining this update, Google states it will add train route suggestions as an alternative when searching through the Flights app for a plane to catch.

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