In brief: Before choosing an apartment, try the complete journey from the building entrance to the place you actually need to reach, at a relevant time, and check the return trip separately. Keep map estimates apart from your own dated observations. A short drive on a map does not answer how long you will wait, walk, transfer or spend getting from parking to the destination.

Define the journey before comparing addresses

Write down the destination entrance and the time you need to be there. For work, that might mean reaching reception rather than the nearest junction. For a school run, include the handover before continuing to your next destination. Keep personal addresses and children's details in your private notes.

Choose the conditions that would make the journey unsuitable for your household: too much walking, stairs you cannot manage, a connection you cannot reliably make, or no workable return after your usual finish time. Set your own acceptable journey time; there is no universal limit in this checklist.

Use the same destination, travel mode and comparable weekday time window for each home. If one address was checked on a quiet weekend and another on a working morning, label them as different conditions. Start with the shortlist in Dignisi's apartment-selection guide, then add a journey record for each candidate.

Use a map to prepare a route, not to certify it

Set the starting point at the actual usable building entrance, not just the development's map marker. If the intended entrance is unfinished or closed, record which access you used and what remains untested.

Google Maps' desktop help describes changing a route's departure or arrival date and time for a single destination. Use that control where offered, choosing a relevant day and time rather than leaving the search at the current moment.[1] If a route or control is unavailable, record that gap and check the journey another way.

Save the estimate with the query date, travel date, time setting and mode. For public transport, note the stop, direction and any transfer. Google's help distinguishes real-time departures from scheduled ones; a displayed departure should not automatically be treated as live vehicle tracking.[2] The municipality's transport directory is another starting point for local checks, but the directory page alone does not confirm a particular departure.[3]

Read any warning about missing or outdated information. A route appearing in an app is a hypothesis to verify. We do not confirm current coverage, timetables or service frequency for any Yerevan address in this guide.

Try the complete outward journey

Make the trip under conditions close to your ordinary routine, where it is safe and practical. Use public paths, crossings and permitted access; do not enter a construction site or follow a suggested shortcut that you cannot safely use. Google also advises checking actual surroundings and signage when following directions.[1]

  1. Start at a defined point. Record the date and the time you leave the building entrance. If you start elsewhere, name that point so the result is not mistaken for an entrance-to-destination test.
  2. Record the walking and waiting. Note arrival at the stop, actual boarding and any transfer. If a vehicle arrives full and you cannot board, record the missed boarding and the resulting wait.
  3. Include the last leg. Finish at the destination entrance. For a car trip, include finding an available permitted parking place and walking from it; do not stop the clock when the car first reaches the street.
  4. Keep the total and its parts consistent. Record elapsed time between your chosen start and finish. Leg times explain that total. Do not add walking or waiting again if it is already included in the total or the app's estimate.
  5. Describe the conditions. Note weather, roadworks, diversions and anything unusual. If you stop for an unrelated errand, record it separately so another address is not compared against a different task.

Take notes only when safely stopped. A single successful trip shows what happened on that occasion; it does not establish the usual travel time or future reliability.

Check the return and a missed connection

Plan and, where practical, try the return journey at your normal finish time. Record the actual boarding point and walk back to the home entrance. Do not assume the outward stop or transfer works identically in reverse.

Ask what you would do if you missed the connection you planned to use. Check a later departure or a different route for the relevant day and time, and distinguish a route you have tried from one you have only found in an app. If you cannot confirm a fallback, keep it unresolved rather than assuming the next vehicle will arrive soon.

For a household that sometimes travels with a stroller, luggage or someone needing step-free access, record that as a separate condition. A trip made alone does not prove that another traveller can use the same route. Do not attempt a difficult journey merely to complete the checklist.

Keep one journey card for each address

Copy these fields into a private note. Make separate cards for outward and return trips, and keep repeated visits rather than replacing the first result with the fastest one.

  • Home and destination: exact start and finish entrances; any temporary access.
  • Required journey: weekday, arrival deadline or departure window, travel mode and household constraints.
  • Map record: tool, query date, travel date/time setting, displayed estimate and any data warning.
  • Observed trip: date, start and finish times, complete elapsed time, walking, waiting, riding or driving, transfers and parking-to-door leg as applicable.
  • What happened: boarding missed, connection made or missed, access obstacle, diversion, weather or unrelated stop.
  • Return and fallback: tested with date, planned only, or not confirmed.
  • Decision: meets personal conditions on this observation, does not meet them, or needs another check; specify what remains unknown.

Compare usable journeys, not the fastest screenshot

Put the cards side by side. Compare the complete trip and your household's constraints, including the return. A shorter estimate may still leave a walking section or connection you cannot use. Keep those practical obstacles visible instead of hiding them inside a single time figure.

If the observation differs from the estimate, retain both and check the endpoints, time setting and unusual conditions before drawing a conclusion. Repeat an important journey in another relevant time window where practical. A small set of visits is not a statistical reliability study.

For a home still under construction, today's journey starts from today's usable access and transport arrangements. Keep any promised future entrance, road or service separate as unverified future information. Before choosing between the remaining addresses, resolve the journey condition that matters most to your household, or record clearly that it is still unknown.

Sources

Primary pages checked on 7 November 2026. The journey card and comparison method are editorial guidance, not a transport-service guarantee.