While working as a developer at Bing, I worked on a tool called queryprobe, which we used internally to provide…
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During our presentation at the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit last year, we outlined our vision for Rome2Rio: to be the platform of choice for travel sites planning to replace their air-only search results with multi-modal results. We believed then, as now,…
Do you consider yourself a savvy traveler and a fan of Rome2Rio? If so, we’d love your help improving the site by adding train, bus and ferry routes in a region of the world that you’re familiar with. You’ll be…
Last week, Google announced a new version of Google Maps that, among other things, revamps their directions interface and adds flight search to the product. At the time, the leading travel industry news site Tnooz reported that the improvements could out-Rome2Rio Rome2Rio. Having…
Rome2Rio co-founder and CTO Bernhard Tschirren will present an overview of the company’s vision to delegates at the Travel Distribution Summit conference, to be held in London on May 23 & 24. Bernie and CEO Rod Cuthbert are travelling to Europe to…
Governments and transport operators around the world are taking a wide range of approaches when it comes to making their data available to third parties. Smartphone-toting commuters are increasing pressure on data owners by demanding services that tell them the…
In January this year we launched the Melbourne Transport Search iPhone app. Following its success, we have now launched a handful of new iPhone apps for various cities and regions across Europe, the US and Australia. The new apps are…
We’ve been busy expanding Rome2Rio’s transport coverage, and today we’re announcing three major additions. We’ve added comprehensive coverage in the UK, the Netherlands and Sweden. The transport operators of all three countries have recently published their schedule data in GTFS and…
Rome2Rio now includes indicative pricing for all transport components, door to door. That means a trip that begins with a shuttle to the airport ($18), then a flight ($750 each way), trains to a regional city ($60) and finally a taxi…
Perhaps the most significant advantage of launching your start-up in Australia, as opposed to in the US, is access to some hefty government grants and financial assistance programs. The two most noteworthy schemes are the R&D Tax Incentive, and the Commercialisation Australia program. Both can be utilized to roughly double your runway, but each has its own pros and…
We don’t usually do book reviews on the Rome2Rio blog, but in this case we’re making an exception. Vacation Rules, released today and co-written by Rome2Rio's CEO (that would be me) and Dr. Sebastian Filep, is an exploration of the…
Today we announced new access options that will allow many travel sites to integrate our travel search engine without charge. The Basic Access option allows up to 100,000 search requests per month, and is available to partners using either the…
We're happy to announce the availability of a new iPhone app based entirely on Rome2Rio's search technology and developed specifically for iPhone users. The Melbourne Transport Search app is free and is already proving popular with iPhone users: w...
NB: A version of this blog post first appeared as a special guest post on Tnooz. As we continue to improve the Rome2Rio multi-modal search technology, we are starting to integrate pricing data into the system to help make sensible…
We're excited to announce that Rome2Rio has received significant support from the Federal Government with the award of a Commercialisation Australia program grant. The grant provides a further A$385,000 in funding for the business to support the c...