1. The future of commuting in a globalised world
iRail vzw/asbl
Yeri Tiete
Pieter Colpaert
cc-by-sa iRail - http://npo.iRail.be

2. Population increases

3. Eventually, everyone has to move

4. BAD

5. The solution:
Mass transport
but... didn't we try this yet?

6. GOOD?

7. BETTER?

9. What has to
change today?

10. Find ways to better
inform commuters in time

11. What has to
change today?

12. Commuting should become
fun, social & interactive

13. How hard can it be?
For instance...
Combine train info with location
based check-in services

14. What has to
change today?

15. Give us the "GPS experience".

16. We already have the math
Stop investing in intermodal journey planning

17. We already have the
route planners

18. But, does someone have
the data?
Public transport companies have a hard time
collecting the data themselves
iRail needed 1.5y to get 2 datasets

19. Points of action

20. 1. Get all your data together

21. 2. Share your data for reuse

22. Thank you for your attention
Dare to join us? Get in touch
@PieterColpaert @Tuinslak
pieter@iRail.be yeri@iRail.be
http://npo.iRail.be

23. Credits
● Orange County Archives on flickr
● screenshot from the BBC website
● chandramarsono on flickr
● eyesogreen on flickr
● marcocrupivisualartist on flickr
● anniemole on flickr
● ncreedplayer on flickr
● andrew_bolin on flickr
● 2xptuitp.org
● dmcl on flickr