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The project
Presentation of the project
Web Trains is the information portal webtrains.net and websites linked to it.
Web Trains proposes global rail portals in German, English and French and local rail portals in Germany, Belgium, Canada, Spain, the United States, France, Great Britain, Italy and Switzerland.
WebTrains also offers services related to railways with LocoTrain, search engine railway; via-train.com to compare train and plane; Azur Trains and Yellow Rail, specialized directories. These tools are available for Europe and North-America, and are being translated into 11 languages.
Values of Web Trains
WebTrains aims to democratize access to railway information, and to transmit the most objective railway culture.
To achieve this, WebTrains account the flexibility of its structure and delivery method, limiting its financial requirements, and thus, confirming its independence, there is no a major donor or advertising for example.
By democratizing access to railway information, Web Trains also revolutionizes the editorial concept which is accessible to all subscribers.
Sustainable Development
Even on the Internet, WebTrains contributes in its own way to a sustainable development. With an editorial system open and accessible to all Web Trains offers a collaborative and citizen information.
From a technical point of view, Web Trains helps to limit its environmental impact by choosing a delivery method only on internet and our computer servers are environmentally friendly and energy efficient.
History
In February 2001, David Herrgott creates Internet site which called "Les Trains", a personal railway website. In September 2001, "Les Trains" site is recalles "Web Trains". But it was only January 28, 2003 that the first news is published on Web Trains. Web Trains is gradually taking the structure of an information railway portal in July 2003 and adopted its current logo.
In May 2005, Web Trains started its first strategic diversification by developing magtrain.com, a newspaper of transport, via-train.com, a train-plane prices-comparator and yellowtrains.com, a world directory of the railway companies. This diversification was horizontal, it makes it possible the project to position in the information of the railroads, urban transportation and air transports. It was also a vertical diversification while opening with the railway newspaper, railway tourism and the railway directory.
End of 2006 Web Trains developed local versions of its railway portal, with the aim to provide local information for local areas, each with an own railway history. To support the development of local portals, the redaction was launched in 2007, a true online collaboration tool for the editors.
Depuis 2008, Web Trains complète à la fois le maillage de ses portails locaux d’information ferroviaire, et le développement de nouvelles activités telles que trans-mag.com, complétant l’offre de veille stratégique de Mag Train à tous les transports et Azur Trains, complétant l’annuaire Yellow Trains aux compagnies ferroviaires touristiques.
In 2011 at 10 years of Web Trains, a new version comes online, with the goal of democratizing access to railway information, regardless of the readership.
2011 A new step for Web Trains
Ten years after its creation, the project Web Trains is changing.
To maintain the independence of Web Trains, David Herrgott, founder of Web Trains, dissolved the company shouldering the project. The evolution of his career need to separate this activity with transparency, which remains a passion. True to its origins, Web Trains becomes again a collaborative personal website.
Around the world
The related websites
webtrains.be
webtrains.ch
webtrains.co.uk
webtrains.de
webtrains.es
webtrains.fr
webtrains.it
webtrains.us
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