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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. [...]

Happy New Year 2011

The routeRANK team has been working on further enhancements of the return trip search functionality. Keep an eye out as these are included in the public routeRANK version over the next few weeks. Moreover, the results’ filtering options have been extended. It is possible to specify time windows for the departure and arrival time, the [...]

Return trip search now available on routeRANK

The routeRANK team has worked hard wrapping up 2010 with a new feature: you can now specify a return trip search, and routeRANK will find return flights, return trains and return car routes. All functionalities including airport transfer information, airport selection, results ranking, and others are also available for return trip searches. Try it out [...]

Skiing season under way in snowy Switzerland

routeRANK was recently nominated for the TechCrunch Europe Awards in the category “Best Cleantech/Environmental Start up” for the second time, after being a finalist in 2009. Thank you all for your support and congratulations to the winner WhipCar. routeRANK is also one of the seven nominees for the Prix NATURE Swisscanto, which is a prize [...]

Tech Crunch Europe 2010 Awards

routeRANK has been nominated for The Europas, the Tech Crunch Europe 2010 Awards, in the Cleantech/Environmental Tech Startup category. We are proud to be considered by one of the top technology web publications for the second time, after being shortlisted for the same award in 2009. If you would like to support us, you can [...]

routeRANK is recruiting!

routeRANK’s offices are situated at the science park (PSE) on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. EPFL is one of Europe’s leading institutions of science and technology, ranked number 2 in Europe and number 20 in the world in the field of “Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences” in the academic ranking [...]

TR35 awards videos available online

Videos from EmTech@MIT 2010, the Emerging Technologies conference at the MIT campus held 21-23 September, are now available online. They include the presentations by the TR35 winners, and you can watch routeRANK’s presentation at minute 9:33 in the video below: Watch live streaming video from emtech at livestream.com

Try out customized features on routeRANK’s beta version

The private routeRANK version showcases customized features on a pre-release, testing level. A beta “return trip” functionality as well as the possibility to specify train price reductions are some of the features currently on display there. routeRANK offers customization of its core patent-pending technology with such optional features to corporate customers and organizations, for their [...]

routeRANK recognized by MIT Technology Review’s TR35 listing of the World’s Top Young Innovators for 2010

routeRANK’s Chairman, Jochen Mundinger, has been recognized by Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for routeRANK’s travel planning technology and product. Selected from more than 300 nominees by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, the TR35 is an elite group [...]

routeRANK goes mobile

The routeRANK team has developed a mobile optimized version of its software. As of today, a first beta release is featured on www.routerank.mobi. Extending routeRANK’s offering of business applications, the mobile optimized version combines the usual routeRANK benefits with solutions to the constraints typically encountered on mobile devices. It is lightweight and ideally suited for [...]