The start of a new era
Time flies! But we have great news:
It's official: @NMBS/@SNCB obliged to go #opendata by law. @openov #opentransport https://t.co/CS9bdoRaoM
— iRail (@iRail) April 13, 2016
We can now officially close the era where iRail has been an advocacy group for Open Transport Data, and instead become something we have always wanted to become: a Living Lab (and/or hackerspace) to work towards a better transport experience for travelers in Belgium. The next steps are going to entail a better collaboration with players like TreinTramBus, iMinds, the European Passenger Federation and everyone who has can help us reach our goal. A first thing is going to be announced next Monday, the 18th of April! We are quite psyched about this.
TreinTramBus and iRail have already been working together in the past, analyzing the query logs we have published in collaboration with iMinds’ Data Science Lab (my current employer). The research that has been carried out was presented at the WWW2016 conference in Canada, during the USEWOD workshop. The full paper can be downloaded here.
.@PieterColpaert @ #WWW2016, analysing query logs for train travel in Belgium in order to understand travel flows pic.twitter.com/Nh1uumEOcJ
— Marin Dimitrov (@marin_dim) April 11, 2016
