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What is Engineering X?

One of the many initiatives currently underway on at Rome2rio is the mysterious-sounding Engineering X. This cross-team project, which aims to standardise engineering processes and procedures, improve the engineering culture and unite engineering across disciplines, kicked off in February 2019.…

Posted July 17, 2019 Read more ›

Announcing The New & Improved Rome2rio App

If you’re a longtime user of Rome2rio, you may already have our app on your iOS or Android device. You may also have recently noticed some changes to the look and functionality. For those of you who haven’t yet downloaded…

Posted March 19, 2019 Read more ›

Focusing on our global app

​Over the last two years we’ve experimented with various ways of getting Rome2rio’s journey planning technology into the hands of users. Our web-based desktop solution is by far the most popular, with over 3 million unique users each month, and…

Posted September 8, 2014 Read more ›

Rome2rio retreats north to Townsville

Last year the Rome2rio team decided to escape Melbourne’s drab winter for a week by setting up shop at Palm Cove (near Cairns in Australia’s far north). That company retreat resulted in the development and launch of Rome2rio’s hotel feature, which…

Posted June 12, 2014 Read more ›

Mapping the most photographed places in the world

I recently stumbled upon this article about a neat tool that visualizes photographed locations around the world as a heat map: Looking at the visualization, it struck me that it correlates quite closely with the train, bus and ferry transport…

Posted January 6, 2014 Read more ›

Manually collected route data proves popular with users

While much of the data we collect and manage to support our mission of “organising the world’s transport information” is available electronically, an important slice of that data is not. What’s interesting is the inverse relationship between that hard-to-get data…

Posted December 16, 2013 Read more ›

Rome2rio team continues to grow

Three new staff have joined the Rome2rio team in the past month. We’re thrilled to welcome to the team: Rodney O’Donnell: Rodney joins our development team with plenty of experience in search and big data problems. He spent 2.5 years…

Posted December 10, 2013 Read more ›

TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: Rome2rio “under the hood”

Two companies with ties to Rome2rio presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Berlin last week. Wanderio, an Italian startup based in Rome, presented their multi-modal booking solution; while WhatNow?! Travel presented an app designed as an in-destination travel guide.…

Posted October 31, 2013 Read more ›

TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin: Rome2rio "under the hood"

Two companies with ties to Rome2rio presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in Berlin last week. Wanderio, an Italian startup based in Rome, presented their multi-modal booking solution; while WhatNow?! Travel presented an app designed as an in-destination travel guide.…

Posted October 31, 2013 Read more ›

A new look for Rome2rio

This week we rolled out a new brand, logo and design for the Rome2rio website. The new look is the culmination of several months of hard work that involved rebuilding the HTML and CSS structure of the site from scratch.…

Posted October 25, 2013 Read more ›

The bus is coming!

At the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit last year, on-stage critic and well-known industry figure Evan Konwiser made an interesting comment after the Rome2rio presentation: “Additionally, nobody wants to travel on CoachUSA, I’m sorry.” We know where Evan was coming from. Historically, US travelers…

Posted October 18, 2013 Read more ›

Does multi-modal matter in Asia?

How important is multi-modal search in the Asian travel marketplace? That’s a question we’ve been hearing more often lately, as partners who are integrating Rome2rio into their European sites consider the implications for other markets. To better understand the potential…

Posted October 1, 2013 Read more ›

Multi-modal: an existential threat for OTAs and meta-search sites

​There are good reasons why travel search results are limited solely to air travel, despite the fact there’s generally a variety of  ways to get between the origin and destination you’re enquiring about. Principal among them is that our industry…

Posted September 24, 2013 Read more ›

Multi-modal: an existential threat for OTAs and#038; meta-search sites

​There are good reasons why travel search results are limited solely to air travel, despite the fact there’s generally a variety of  ways to get between the origin and destination you’re enquiring about. Principal among them is that our industry…

Posted September 24, 2013 Read more ›

In online travel, three events matter

A nice surprise today: at the annual Traveltech industry conference in Sydney, Rome2rio was announced Australia’s Travel Website Of The Year for 2013. The award is judged on five criteria: innovation, design and usability, meeting the brief, speed, and content. Winning this year’s award was…

Posted September 14, 2013 Read more ›

An online travel hotspot in Melbourne

It’s easy to find articles about the wonders of the Silicon Valley ecosystem, and hard to disagree with the general gist of the proposition that companies growing up in that environment enjoy advantages over their remote and too-often lonely competitors.…

Posted August 20, 2013 Read more ›

Cleartrip’s Waytogo remains true to “make travel simple” goal

Cleartrip, the leading Indian OTA, has launched a beautiful integration of Rome2rio’s multi-modal journey planner. Customised to the specific needs of the vast Indian marketplace, Cleartrip’s Waytogo product is ideally suited to an environment where air travel often takes a…

Posted July 24, 2013 Read more ›

Cleartrip's Waytogo Remains True To "Make Travel Simple" Goal

Cleartrip, the leading Indian OTA, has launched a beautiful integration of Rome2rio’s multi-modal journey planner. Customised to the specific needs of the vast Indian marketplace, Cleartrip’s Waytogo product is ideally suited to an environment where air travel often takes a…

Posted July 24, 2013 Read more ›

Borders vs. algorithms: a Rome2rio dilemma

A significant challenge for Rome2rio’s development team revolves around the manner in which we recognise and treat political boundaries and borders, so that search results and drive overlays do not return unrealistic travel options.  We often get feedback from our users…

Posted July 1, 2013 Read more ›

Ten tools that help us make Rome2rio better

While working as a developer at Bing, I worked on a tool called queryprobe, which we used internally to provide optics into the Bing ranker and help the team debug failed queries. I learnt from that experience the importance, when…

Posted July 1, 2013 Read more ›