The accessibility of the Port of
Antwerp and its vacancies
Open Belgium 2016
Han Tambuyzer
Managing Partner
A concrete mobility use-case
naarjobsindehaven.be

nazka mapps
| young innovative company
| experience in geo-ict & (geo)data-analysis

mission
| create interactive mapping applications and location-based services
| with social added value
| by combining and enriching different (open) data-sources smartly
| making it easily accesible

Concerns - status
• Accessibility: by car seems
only way
• No clear overview on other
transport options
• Very fragmented initiatives
• No link with jobs
• Difficulty of adresses in Port
Areas
• Difficult target group
• No info on companies and their
offer for mobility
concerns

• Inform jobseekers on transport options and job offer
• Final target group : jobseekers far removed from the labor
market or without a car
• Focus on Accessibility of the Port of Antwerp
City of Antwerp & Fietsschool | Developed by supported by
objectives

• Forge partnerships
• Explore and collect (existing) open data
• Static (xls, shape, ...)
• Dynamic online services (API, xml-request, REST, ...)
• Involve Stakeholders
approach

forging partnerships
• Better assessing the situation
• Data-sharers (remove reluctance to share)
• Feedback
• Open up data

• Easily accessible and digitally available
• Integrate as much as possible external services and tools
• Combine, link and enrich for new insights by visualization and
interactive map
explore and collect
(existing) data

• Federal Government
• data on commuter traffic of companies
• Port of Antwerp
• Companies location (polygons)
• Quay numbers
• Mobility infrastructure
• Public Transport (busstations, train stations)
• Bike parkings, safe routes, velo-stations
• Carpool Parkings
• Collective transport (i-bus, linkeroeverpendel)
• Location data on jobcoaches and job services
used static data

used dynamic data services
• VDAB-vacancy service
• CRAB adress service AGIV
• GIPOD service AGIV

used external tools
• DeLijn – arrivals/departures
• NMBS – arrivals
• Google Maps Routing
• Informative Websites on initiatives

involving
Stakeholders
• Jobcoaches, employment agencies
• Make links to their information
• Put them on the map

result is a starting point
• Informative Tool primarily for jobcoaches (but also publicly
available)
• Easy access to vacancies, transport options and companies
mobility offer

• 1st application with VDAB vacancy service
• 1st interactive publication on commuter traffic offer of
companies in the Port of Antwerp
• Integration of data on quay & port numbers and correct adresses

way forward
• Improve multi-modal options and routing
• Involve companies or organisation (voka, portofantwerp) to add, update
and edit data dynamically
• Improve vacancy completeness and location specific
• Mobile application
• Integrate as a service in other services (open?) - vdab or company pages

lessons learned
• Partnerships and data-sharers
• Fragmented – good integration and implementation is
needed
• Try to use consistent and existing services, combining them
into a new enriched one