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To NeTEx or not to NeTEx?
VANL has been processing Public Transport timetables for years. As of the first of August, we have switched to the new NeTEx format. This blog is about our considerations and wonders. The following criteria were important: Is the quality of the new timetables just as...
Driving Times 2.0 – An update
We wrote about our view on driving times and how we think that the analysis of these driving times must/will change in our February blog. Today we provide you an update of the project: Consultation about influential factors In the past month, we’ve contacted...
BI or just production according to plan?
Production planning is all about organizing a production process for a product or a service as efficiently as possible. It’s about waging your clients’ needs with your business'. A shorter delivery time (for your client) vs. lower production costs (simultaneous...
Playing with bottlenecks
Over the past few months, Wouter Leeuw (data science intern at AnalyeData, one of the companies we share our office building with) has been working away on a Berco Car Carpets manufacturing dataset. The goal of the research: to create a simulation model of the actual...
NeTEx: we’re moving ahead
Introduction for those not familiar with the public transport sector: NeTEx (mind the capital letters) stands for ‘Network and TimeTable Exchange’ and is a technical standard for exchanging timetables and related information in XML. The Dutch public transport (PT) is...
A new view on driving times
For simplicity, in this article we will discuss busses, but all is application for other modes of public transport – tram, metro, train - as well. Analyzing the driving time a bus driver (or tram, metro, train) needs to go from stop A to stop B is one of the...
A new phase in the new office
Last week the moment was finally there; we signed our new lease at Twice and received the keys to our new office. This means that we are now housed in Eindhoven, at the Twinning building on the terrain of the University of Technology Eindhoven. But what does this...
Step
As entrepeneur, you need to take steps. Steps into the direction you want to go and steps towards the goals you want to reach. With the Business Model Canvas as our compass, VANL will start walking the following route. New employees Over the past year, our job...
A new software programmer?
Past June, I was told to have passed my thesis successfully and suddenly the question 'What's next?' became the standard conversation starter. At that point I was working on getting practical experience for over 2 years, but what would be my plan? - I had no idea. Now...
From T3 to T4: Usability and User Experience
Now that the next release of TMWalker4 is getting closer, we would like to take you back to one of the first phases of its development. Throughout the year 2015, 20 TMWalker3 users were interviewed about their wishes, complaints and other findings of the...
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