HaCon

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HaCon's headquarters in the Podbi-Park commercial complex
HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1984
Seat Hanover , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Michael Frankenberg, Andreas Dittmann, Claus-Müller Haude
Number of employees 400
sales 44 million euros
Branch Software development
Website www.hacon.de
As of August 27, 2019

The HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH , based in Hannover is a software development company for mobility solutions . The company has been a 100 percent subsidiary of Siemens AG since 2017 . In addition to its headquarters in Hanover, HaCon has offices in Berlin , Paris and London. In 2019 the company had 400 employees. In 2018 the company achieved a profit of € 6.1 million with a turnover of € 44 million. In 2015 the company was included in the list of 50 smartest companies in 2015 by MIT Technology Review magazine as one of two German companies . The head office is located in Podbi-Park , a commercial complex that used to be entirely used by the Hanoverian biscuit manufacturer Bahlsen today.

history

HaCon was founded in 1984 by Marian Gaidzik, Werner Kretschmer and Volker Sustrate. The origin of the company lies in the development of the HAFAS timetable information system for Deutsche Bahn . At the end of the 1980s, course 90, the first computer-aided timetable information, was developed in Germany. With a special algorithm , information should be able to be output within six seconds.

The offline versions, which used to be sold on floppy disks or CDs, could be downloaded from the Internet for a while, for example from Deutsche Bahn and for the entire Swiss timetable from the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund . Both operators discontinued this service for the 2014/15 timetable change. The ÖBB one year later for the 2015/16 timetable change. The offline timetables only included target data and could, if required, be provided with timetable updates via an update function (in the DB version also with price data updates until the end of 2013). The software ran under Microsoft Windows, previously also under MS-DOS.

From these beginnings, HAFAS has established itself on the market as a platform for Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and enables cross- carrier route planning (so-called intermodal routing ) with integrated ticket booking in Germany, Switzerland, Dubai and the USA . More than 100 million route calculations are now queried daily. HAFAS is the heart of the DB Navigator app.

In addition to the HAFAS business area , two further business areas have now been set up: Train Planning System and Consulting . Train Planning System supports infrastructure operators (e.g. Network Rail , SNCF Réseau , Banedanmark , Bane NOR ) as well as railway companies (e.g. SNCF , DSB ) in the creation of operational timetables. The Consulting division supports customers in projects in rail freight transport, especially in combined transport .

A software solution is now also available for fleet management .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The company HaCon - A Siemens Company. In: hacon.de. HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Annual financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. In: Unternehmensregister.de. Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, October 24, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ HaCon-Siemens buys timetable software company. In: Handelsblatt Online. Handelsblatt GmbH, April 28, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ History - HaCon, HAFAS timetable information, TPS timetable construction. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ The company HaCon - A Siemens Company. In: hacon.de. HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 50 Smartest Companies 2015. In: technologyreview.com. MIT Technology Review, accessed January 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Susanna Bauch: Canadian investors buy Podbi-Park. In: haz.de. Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, March 19, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ New solution based on tandem computers and Siemens PCs: Bahn wants to create an open network of computers . In: Computerwoche . No. 46 , 1988.
  9. ↑ Route planner and travel companion software for multimodal and intermodal travel planning in real time. In: hacon.de. HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Christian Wölbert: Appgefahren How app developers imagine the future of bus and train travel. In: c't. c't Computer und Technik, April 22, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Annual financial statements for the business year from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. In: Unternehmensregister.de. Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, October 24, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Fleet management with HAFAS Smart VMS. In: hacon.de. HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, accessed on January 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 9 ″  E