The accessibility of the Port of Antwerp and its vacancies

Open Belgium 2016

Han Tambuyzer

Managing Partner

A concrete mobility use-casenaarjobsindehaven.be

nazka mapps

| young innovative company

| experience in geo-ict & (geo)data-analysis

mission

| create interactive mapping applications and location-based services

| with social added value

| by combining and enriching different (open) data-sources smartly

| making it easily accesible

Concerns - status

• Accessibility: by car seems only way

• No clear overview on other transport options

• Very fragmented initiatives

• No link with jobs

• Difficulty of adresses in Port Areas

• Difficult target group

• No info on companies and their offer for mobility

concerns

• Inform jobseekers on transport options and job offer

• Final target group : jobseekers far removed from the labor market or without a car

• Focus on Accessibility of the Port of Antwerp

City of Antwerp & Fietsschool | Developed by supported by

objectives

• Forge partnerships

• Explore and collect (existing) open data• Static (xls, shape, ...)

• Dynamic online services (API, xml-request, REST, ...)

• Involve Stakeholders

approach

forging partnerships

• Better assessing the situation

• Data-sharers (remove reluctance to share)

• Feedback

• Open up data

• Easily accessible and digitally available

• Integrate as much as possible external services and tools

• Combine, link and enrich for new insights by visualization and interactive map

explore and collect (existing) data

• Federal Government• data on commuter traffic of companies

• Port of Antwerp• Companies location (polygons)

• Quay numbers

• Mobility infrastructure• Public Transport (busstations, train stations)

• Bike parkings, safe routes, velo-stations

• Carpool Parkings

• Collective transport (i-bus, linkeroeverpendel)

• Location data on jobcoaches and job services

used static data

used dynamic data services

• VDAB-vacancy service

• CRAB adress service AGIV

• GIPOD service AGIV

used external tools

• DeLijn – arrivals/departures

• NMBS – arrivals

• Google Maps Routing

• Informative Websites on initiatives

involving Stakeholders

• Jobcoaches, employment agencies

• Make links to their information

• Put them on the map

result is a starting point• Informative Tool primarily for jobcoaches (but also publicly

available)

• Easy access to vacancies, transport options and companies mobility offer

• 1st application with VDAB vacancy service

• 1st interactive publication on commuter traffic offer of companies in the Port of Antwerp

• Integration of data on quay & port numbers and correct adresses

way forward

• Improve multi-modal options and routing

• Involve companies or organisation (voka, portofantwerp) to add, update and edit data dynamically

• Improve vacancy completeness and location specific

• Mobile application

• Integrate as a service in other services (open?) - vdab or company pages

lessons learned• Partnerships and data-sharers

• Fragmented – good integration and implementation is needed

• Try to use consistent and existing services, combining them into a new enriched one