Cheapest€15.58
- PARTA PA369906:314h 8m10:39CitilinkPace Joliet Transportation Center
Door to door 4h 52mCO2 7.8 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee
Fort Wayne to Joliet bus
Buses from Fort Wayne to Joliet start at €17.78 and take 4h 52m at their fastest.
The Buses from Fort Wayne to Joliet starts at €17.78 and takes 4h 52m door to door, run by 1 operator over 288 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 4h 52mDoor to door
- 4h 8mMoving
- €17.78From
- 7.8 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Bus operators
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PARTA | €15.58 | 4h 32m | 72 km/h | Changeable | Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi |
The trip ends at Joliet. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Joliet for the night the bus gets in
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Fort Wayne to Joliet
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €23.2890 days
- €13.3860 days
- €14.4845 days
- €15.5830 days
- €16.6821 days
- €17.7814 days
- €26.587 days
- €22.733 days
- €41.981 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.38.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 214 percent. The most expensive point is €41.98, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €21.08Sun
- €22.73Mon
- €22.73Tue
- €20.53Wed
- €21.63Thu
- €17.78Fri
- €26.58Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Fort Wayne
Bus
- Citilink
- Citilink Central Station
Joliet
Bus
- Pace Joliet Transportation Center
- Pace Plainfield Park-N-Ride
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 288 km against 251 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Rockford. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Fort Wayne at 06:31 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Fort Wayne to Joliet
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet take?
The Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet takes 4h 52m door to door, of which 4h 8m is spent moving. The route runs 288 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet cost?
The Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet starts at €17.78 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €29.88. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet?
1 operators run the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet: PARTA. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet use?
The Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet leaves from Citilink and arrives at Pace Joliet Transportation Center. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet?
Fares for the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €13.38. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 214 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet produce?
The Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet produces about 7.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 288 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
What is provided on board the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet?
Operators on the Coach from Fort Wayne to Joliet publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 52m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Where these numbers come from
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Fort Wayne to Joliet on September 11, 2026: 288 km of route against 251 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €17.78, and 4h 52m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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