Blog Archives
Soft-launching occupancy scores in the API
Hi all, In May 2016, TreinTramBus and iRail successfully finished a crowd-funding campaign called Spitsgids, in which we were able to raise €4140 from 121 believers. We promised to hire students during open Summer of code 2016 and to open … Continue reading
Small enhancements of the API documentation
We have updated the API docs slightly over here: https://hello.irail.be/api/1-0/ Change log: Vehicle information now contains much more data about arrivals, delays, cancelations, and so forth. It’s kept backward compatible, but the new properties should allow you to make richer … Continue reading
Visualizing our queries
On top of the iRail API, many requests happen. Even if we give concrete numbers, it remains difficult to understand how many requests we actually get. Serkan Yildiz, one of the open Summer of code students, created the open iRail … Continue reading
Always have a seat in the train
With our API’s query logs, with a ground truth by train specialists in Belgium, and with user feedback, we can show you how busy your train is. The only thing lacking to realizing this feature that the Dutch already have for … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading