✨ Shall we take a short trip down memory lane to Parabol 2025? We wish you a healthy and happy new year from Parabol!
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Hello, it's time to look ahead to 2025 together 📣
First of all, we want to thank everyone who has been with us throughout the year, who trusted us, and with whom we have done beautiful and exciting things together.
🙌 We are leaving behind another year in which we continued to work together, grow, and strengthen ourselves by staying in constant contact for safe, sustainable, and human-centered mobility systems in our cities.
Now it's time to stop and take a short trip back.
What's on this trip? Since 2011, with our core philosophy of "producing and adding value in all circumstances," we'll see news from our innovative work in 2025 where new technologies touch lives, new users added, new projects, products that continue to develop, strengthened collaboration networks, and our growing ecosystem.
We wish that the new year brings health, hope, and inspiration to all of us; and that it will be a period in which we continue to produce, think, and act together for a better future. 🙏
Now, let's take a look together at what we've accomplished on this journey in 2025.
"Reaching 10 from 1 is difficult, but reaching 1 from 0 requires a special touch." - Metin Barış
We have never forgotten, and will never forget, our very valuable founder, our dear friend and colleague Metin Barış, and his special touch.
Together with him, we learned to hold on tightly to the work we love and believe in, to the team, to the impact we create, and to the fire of amplifying that impact. We are grateful to him for starting this story, for bringing together this wonderful team that believes in each other, and for leaving us the legacy of the power of creating together with love.
We remember him with great longing, love, and respect. We continue to cherish this legacy, this story, and to grow it together with the same faith and determination.
In Van, the era of data-driven planning in public transportation has begun with Cermoni, the Public Transportation Decision Support System, and our team's public transportation consultancy 🚍
In 2025, the era of increasing efficiency and digitalization in public transportation through data-driven planning began at Van Metropolitan Municipality with Cermoni, the Public Transportation Decision Support System, and the public transportation consultancy we provide together.
During this process, the current state of Van's public transportation system was analyzed; route structures, schedules, and operational needs were addressed from a holistic perspective. New route arrangements were made with the consultancy provided, and optimized schedules, vehicle and driver assignments were made with Cermoni's demand-based planning solution. By combining Cermoni with our public transportation expertise, we provide both products and consultancy, always standing by our cities as an expert team in their public transportation planning, investments, and improvement efforts.
In 2025, Pintask enabled hundreds of users from various institutions, stretching from Istanbul to Batman and Antalya to Rize, to record hundreds of thousands of inventory items and track field work! ✨
Our field work and inventory tracking software, Pintask, with its dynamic structure renewed in 2025, not only tracks work but also enables the detailed recording of all types of inventory (from signage to paint, screws to phones) in both stock and field settings. It freed hundreds of thousands of photos from WhatsApp and created a verifiable mechanism for audits and legal processes.
Pintask, a product used daily by institutions of all sizes that have work and inventory in the field and want to track them, from metropolitan municipalities to district municipalities, from infrastructure providers to irrigation associations, has reached 400 users in 20 institutions as of 2025.
We closely follow innovations and improve our products, transforming new technologies into practical applications for mobility in the field!
Cermoni marks a new era in public transport planning 🚍
Cermoni's public transport decision support system aims to ensure efficient, demand-driven service planning in public transport. In 2025, it continued to be strengthened within a holistic, end-to-end framework, from product data management infrastructure to optimized planning.
Highlights:
Data management: Fully integrated data infrastructure with GTFS, enabling the management of weekday/weekend distinctions, special days, and different scheduling variants.
Schedule planning optimization: Fully integrated infrastructure with GTFS and demand-based occupancy algorithm, generating highly accurate schedules, automatic integration of smart card data, and the ability to compare with existing schedules.
Vehicle and driver assignment: Assignments that minimize dead mileage, advanced shift constraints, and the creation of dynamic shift configurations.
Task scheduling: Automatic and manual roster options, schedules adaptable to different needs and easily exportable.
Safely, a traffic safety analysis platform, continues to produce advanced analyses that will improve safety on the roads 🚦
Safely enables data-driven decisions to improve traffic safety by providing accurate intervention guidelines. It doesn't simply identify areas with high accident rates; it also provides information on the relationships between accidents, risk factors, and on-site follow-up after intervention. This allows for improved traffic safety in priority areas through appropriate interventions. With its new modules in 2025, Safely completes the "analyze, intervene, follow up, measure effectiveness" cycle by tracking the implementation of traffic safety measures.
What's new in 2025?
Buffer Analysis Module: Provides detailed analysis of risk areas around critical points such as schools, hospitals, and intersections, helping to define intervention priorities.
High Accident Rate Area Comparison Module: Compares analyses created based on different years, parameters, or accident types; clearly reveals common risk areas, risk structures that change over time, newly emerging priority areas, and areas where improvements have been made.
Project Planning and Monitoring Module: This module allows you to plan interventions based on analysis results, track which applications have been implemented, and monitor their impact on traffic safety.
Do you know the risky areas in your city? Are school surroundings safe, or which areas are risky for pedestrians and why? We can identify these areas with their risk factors and work together to improve traffic safety with a guide to improvement recommendations for priority intervention areas.
In 2025, Pintask became the central hub for field work tracking and inventory management with its new features 🛠️📍
In field operations, tracking not only tasks but also inventory, consumables used, and all resources is critical for end-to-end stock and field management. In 2025, Pintask addressed this need by moving its field inventory and task tracking processes to a more integrated, controlled, and scalable structure.
Inventory-task integration: Task-based tracking of inventory and consumables used in field operations.
Advanced authorization: Detailed authorization definitions based on inventory, warehouse, company, unit, and department.
Consumable tracking: Stock and usage-based records of all materials used in the field, such as paint, screws, and bolts.
Dynamic inventory fields: Flexible definition of information specific to inventory types.
With this new dynamic structure, Pintask enables the tracking of stock and all field inventories, along with task tracking in field operations, through a single platform. yönetmeyi mümkün kılarak kurumların sahadaki kontrol gücünü önemli ölçüde artırdı.
Armoni offers mobility analyses for all modes of transportation on a single platform 🚶♀️🚲🚍🚗
Pedestrianization projects, determining priority routes in public transport, bicycle path investment, or Transportation Master Plans. Armoni, a multimodal mobility analysis platform, enables the analysis of different data sources on a single platform for all investment decisions in transportation planning.
It unites all modes of transportation, including motor vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, and public transport, under one roof, transforming big data from different sources into advanced analyses to enable integrated planning of urban mobility. 🚶 🚲 🚍
National and international projects, new partners, and continuous innovation 🚀 🎉
2025 was a year in which we brought innovation in mobility to the field with both our R&D projects and consulting projects. With 25 project partners from 9 countries, we produced knowledge, products, and benefits in many areas such as public transportation, traffic safety, transportation modeling, multimodal urban mobility analyses, 15-minute cities, etc.
We were accepted for 3 new projects and successfully completed 2 ongoing projects. By securing support from networks and funds (EIT Urban Mobility, Horizon Europe, TÜBİTAK, KOSGEB, etc.), we adapted new technologies to our work and implemented them in Turkey and on an international scale.
Izmir Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan has been completed 🌿
The aim of the SUMp İzmir Project is to present the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality with a plan that will contribute to livability and sustainability in İzmir by providing safer, cleaner, more accessible, and affordable mobility opportunities for everyone.
This project, which includes several firsts for SUMPs in Türkiye, is pioneering as the first SUMP project in Türkiye to implement an Activity-Based Model.
As Parabol, we successfully completed the processes of collecting mobility data from different sources, producing analyses using innovative methods, and developing an activity-based transportation model specific to İzmir's needs.
The project represents a significant step in İzmir's journey towards sustainable mobility, and with its innovative methods, digital tools, and activity-based model, it has become an important SKUP example for other cities
**The project, signed by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations, Department of European Union Investments, and approved by the EU Delegation to Turkey, was implemented by a multinational consortium consisting of MuConsult-Panteia (Netherlands), Rupprecht Consult GmbH (Germany), Parabol (Turkey), BNN Consulting and Engineering Ltd (Turkey), and POLIS Network (Belgium).**
EIT Urban Mobility-supported Safely Traffic Safety Project in Konya and Sarajevo 🚦
Supported by EIT Urban Mobility, Europe's largest mobility network, Safely, as part of the "Enhancing the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users with Big Data-Based Analytics" project, implemented pilot applications that address traffic safety with a data-driven and preventive approach in collaboration with Konya Metropolitan Municipality and the Ministry of Traffic of the Canton of Sarajevo.
Safely focuses on vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. It first identified high-accident zones and their risk factors through a Traffic Safety Analysis Platform, determined priority intervention areas, and implemented field applications. Subsequently, the impact of these interventions on traffic safety was analyzed again through the software.
The project, which identifies necessary actions for traffic safety based on data and enables appropriate interventions, has had a direct impact on human lives in both cities.
Our expertise in the field of mobility has transformed into training programs, and now we can meet with you for these trainings as well 🎓🌍
In 2025, we contributed to the mobility ecosystem not only with products and projects, but also with training provided by our experts in areas such as public transportation, transportation modeling, traffic safety, big data, data collection, data analysis, etc. Through our trainings on numerous topics, we have collaborated with various institutions, cities, and academic circles. Some of the trainings we provided in 2025 include:
SKUP - Activity-Based Modeling Trainings
Traffic Safety in the Digital Age – Technical University of Berlin
Activity-Based Modeling (ABM) Approaches – METU Civil Engineering
Artificial Intelligence in Public Transportation Trainings – UITP & Baku Metro
Traffic Safety and Analysis Approaches – General Directorate of Highways
Scalable Public Transportation Analyses in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Environment – EUMaster4HPC
Through these trainings and more, we at Parabol continue to share both our expertise and the experience we have gained in the field.
We continued to be with you at every opportunity in 5 countries and 12 cities 🌎🚀
We are aware of how important it is to be together, to come together and share things, especially in the field of mobility, to create, grow, and strengthen impact. Sometimes we were together at a conference, at a trade fair, sometimes at a workshop, or in the field for pilot applications.
Where have we been?
"Tomorrow Mobility World Congress, MARUF, UITP Hamburg, National Intelligent Transportation Conference ConfİTS-25, UITP Eurasia Conference, EIT Community Days, and more"
Has anyone not heard? 👀
Are you following our content series? Our goal is to create a high-quality content environment where we can both share our expertise and experiences and connect with experts working in the sector. This year has been a period where we've expanded our content series by adding new formats alongside ongoing ones, opening up more space for different needs and perspectives.
With Cermotalks, we continued to address mobility, sustainability, and public transportation from the perspectives of our guests with diverse expertise.
With Cermonews, we focused on a single topic each month in a newsletter format, examining current developments, concepts, common misconceptions, and technological advancements in that field.
And now, our new series, Cermopedia! We realized that public transportation concepts can have different meanings in different institutions, or the same topic can be expressed with multiple concepts. In each episode of this 2-minute video series, we explain a different public transportation concept.
Our aim is to produce high-quality content in Turkish for the mobility ecosystem, making the knowledge and experience here more widespread.
🔍 What impact did we create with our products in 2025?
As we wrap up 2025, we wanted to look back on the impact our products made on cities throughout the year.
We've compiled our 2025 Product Impact Recaps, bringing together the product-based impacts of studies conducted in different cities with Pintask, Cermoni, Safely, and Mapalyse.
In these recaps, you can see in which cities, at what scale, and in which areas our products touched, and take a closer look at the impact we created together throughout 2025.
👉 You can access the 2025 Product Impact Recaps here.
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You've already reached the end of the email! 🙌🏻 We've carefully and excitedly prepared this content, with the contributions of the entire Parabol team, to summarize the whole year and share it with you.
Thank you so much for your trust and all your support. It's invaluable to work together to create, share, and ultimately grow each year. We wish you a healthy and wonderful year in 2026, where we continue to dream and create together.
Happy and healthy New Year! 🎉
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