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Routes to Davos

This week, the World Economic Forum holds their Annual Meeting in Swiss mountain resort Davos. routeRANK helps participants choosing their travel routes and the Forum to run a contest rewarding the greenest participants. The World Economic Forum recognizes that its activities have an impact on the environment and view it as their responsibility to limit [...]

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker praises impact on resource efficiency in time for the European Commission Mobility Challenge

routeRANK is honoured to announce the support of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, currently Co-Chair of the UNEP’s International Resource Panel. With a view to his field of expertise he confirms: “routeRANK’s technology allows its users to improve their resource efficiency in travel and transport easily.” His testimonial joins other illustrative quotes on routeRANK, including by [...]

Western Switzerland’s 150 and the ‘Suite 150′

As part of the many changes we made during the last month, the representation of routeRANK’s search results are now improved in different ways. For example, results with departure and arrival dates different from the user’s original search date are marked with different symbols and tool-tips. The working time, available as an additional criteria on [...]

“routeRANK spares travellers orienteering in public transport”

We are happy to announce that routeRANK has gained the support of Simone Niggli-Luder, the 17-time world champion in orienteering. Drawing the parallel to her sports she confirms that “routeRANK spares travellers orienteering in public transport”. Travelling from London to Lausanne, for example, there are thousands of possible routes: by air through multiple departure airports [...]

Recent news and extended flight coverage

Last Friday, Swiss business magazine Bilanz published an article about routeRANK’s role in corporate travel, accompanied by an interview with routeRANK founder and chairman Jochen Mundinger. The latter is available on Bilanz’s homepage, the full article can be found on the press page. We are pleased that routeRANK is now part of school teaching material [...]

An active month for routeRANK

Last month routeRANK released a new standardized professional version of its travel planning solution to meet the demand by small and mid-size companies. This was picked up by LeTemps , amongst others. Similarly, routeRANK’s presentation at the EU Parliament on June 1st, 2011, was covered by VentureLab.ch. Find this and more articles on our press [...]

routeRANK in the European Parliament

Following the recent article in the newsletter of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, routeRANK’s founder and Chairman Jochen Mundinger will participate in the meeting “The Future of Transport: Discussion on the EC White Paper” taking place in the European Parliament in Brussels today, June 1st. Big Think, a US-based [...]

Spring news from routeRANK

The routeRANK Team hopes you all had a great Easter holiday. We have been working on a number of new features for routeRANK and are releasing the time filters from our private beta version to the public version today. Also see the earlier blog entry. We have also recently updated our career page with more [...]

New features on routeRANK

The routeRANK team has been working on putting the final touches on a number of new features. It is now possible to specify a number of up to four travelers when searching for routes, with consequences for prices and CO2 emissions in particular. While often trains stay the most ecological means of transport, even when [...]

routeRANK with improved filters and updated geographic data

In the context of this year’s NATUR congress, routeRANK had been nominated for the Prix NATURE Swisscanto in the category “Future Generation”. The award ceremony was held at the Gala in Basel earlier this month. Our congratulations to the winners UrbanFarmers, as well as musician Andres Andrekson (Stress) and the organisation for development co-operation Helvetas. [...]