Human Dialog has been producing TILOS since 1997, shaping how time-location planning is used in infrastructure projects worldwide.
Today we bring together users, expertise, and ideas to support the TILOS Community and shape what comes next.
Continuity of TILOS technology
Human Dialog—the engineering team behind TILOS—remains committed to supporting its community and ensuring continuity.
Trimble TILOS users can continue using their current software, workflows and project data. Human Dialog's TILOS Development Roadmap brings new functionalities designed to work with the Trimble TILOS environment, extend its functionality and, over time, lead toward a new-generation time-location planning platform.
Through the TILOS Innovation Hub, you can reach Producer Support, share your needs and follow the TILOS Development Roadmap.
TILOS Development Roadmap
Practical improvements. New functionalities. A roadmap shaped by users.
See how Human Dialog is extending TILOS with new functionalities designed for continuity, collaboration, and the evolving needs of project organizations.
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Enables multiple users to work together on existing TILOS projects and manage multiple projects within one collaborative environment.
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Enhancements to visual presentation, navigation, and everyday interaction.
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Browser access to schedules, progress information, and reports.
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Reusable TILOS planning libraries shared across projects and teams.
Our Vision
Human Dialog—the engineering team behind TILOS—remains committed to supporting its community and ensuring continuity.
For over two decades, TILOS has helped planners, schedulers, and project teams deliver complex infrastructure projects around the world. Along the way, users have developed valuable knowledge, proven practices, and new ways of solving planning challenges.
We believe the future of TILOS should be shaped by the people who use it every day.
Our vision is to stay closely connected to the needs of the TILOS community, continuously transforming real-world experience into practical improvements, new capabilities, and future solutions.
Because the best future for TILOS will be built together.
Tilos
Infrastructure projects are specific. Work progresses through locations. Crews move along corridors. Resources, access, and construction sequences constantly interact across time and distance.
Understanding these relationships is essential to successful project delivery, yet traditional scheduling tools often struggle to represent them clearly.
TILOS was created specifically to address the unique planning challenges of linear infrastructure projects. Produced by Human Dialog since 1997, it combines time and location in a single planning environment, helping planners visualize work, identify conflicts, evaluate alternatives, communicate plans, and maintain control over complex infrastructure projects.
Why time-location planning?
Project success depends not only on when activities happen, but also where they happen, how crews move between locations, and how work fronts interact across the project.
Time-location planning brings these relationships together in a single visual model, helping planners understand complex construction logic, communicate plans more effectively, and make better decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
Why planners choose TILOS
Planning value expressed through the outcomes that project teams recognize in everyday work.
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Understand when and where work happens in a single view, helping teams identify relationships that are often difficult to recognize in traditional schedules.
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Work with large projects, extensive datasets, and detailed construction logic while maintaining clarity, responsiveness, and control.
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Detect location clashes, crew interactions, and sequencing issues before they affect project delivery.
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Compare scenarios and evaluate different planning strategies before committing to execution.
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Present project information in a format that is intuitive for planners, project teams, management, and stakeholders.
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Monitor progress along the project and quickly identify deviations from the plan.
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Reusable TILOS planning libraries shared across projects and teams.
More Than Software
For nearly three decades, TILOS has helped infrastructure organizations plan and deliver some of the world's most complex projects.
Produced by Human Dialog since its inception, TILOS has continuously evolved through close engagement with planners, project organizations, and real-world project challenges.
Continuous innovation, deep understanding of time-location planning, and a relentless focus on performance and usability have helped TILOS become the world's standard for time-location planning.
As the producer of TILOS and the owner of ObjectReef, Human Dialog continues to advance TILOS through new capabilities, community engagement, and ongoing innovation in time-location planning.
Through new capabilities extending TILOS standard functionality, TILOS Innovation Hub, and future solutions powered by ObjectReef, organizations can build on their existing TILOS investment while gaining access to new ways of working, collaborating, and managing planning information.
The Story of TILOS
TILOS began with a practical engineering challenge: traditional planning tools could not clearly represent how infrastructure work progresses across both time and location.
Developed and continuously produced by Human Dialog's engineering team, TILOS has evolved through nearly three decades and more than 11 major generations—shaped by real projects, planners, and changing infrastructure needs.
Today, Human Dialog continues to produce and evolve TILOS, advance the ObjectReef technology behind it, and shapes the future of time-location planning.
Object Reef
Behind TILOS stands ObjectReef, a technology platform developed and owned by Human Dialog that enabled the unique time-location planning capabilities for which TILOS became known.
ObjectReef was designed to support complex enterprise-scale applications with exceptional speed and efficiency. As a solution built on ObjectReef, TILOS is able to process large projects, extensive datasets, and sophisticated time-location calculations while maintaining the performance users rely on every day.
ObjectReef also provides the unique Graphic Cell technology that powers TILOS visual planning. Combining the precision of vector graphics with exceptional performance and scalability, Graphic Cells allow complex project information to remain clear, responsive, and easy to navigate regardless of project size.
Today, ObjectReef continues to provide the technological foundation for the evolution of TILOS while supporting a broader ecosystem of applications and future solutions developed by Human Dialog.
TILOS Innovation Hub
Our ambition as the producer of TILOS is to bring together users, expertise, and ideas, helping TILOS evolve through real-world planning experience and collaboration.
This is why we created the TILOS Innovation Hub – a place where ideas can be shared, challenges discussed, and future capabilities explored together. A place where TILOS users and experts connect, exchange knowledge, and help shape what comes next.
Whether you want to suggest an improvement, discuss a planning challenge, learn from others, or influence future capabilities, the TILOS Innovation Hub is a place to connect, contribute, and be part of the conversation.
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Help shape the future of TILOS by sharing improvements, feature requests, planning challenges, and new ideas.
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Explore best practices, experiences, success stories, and knowledge shared by TILOS users and industry experts.
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Connect with Producer Support and experienced TILOS practitioners for guidance, advice, and practical assistance.
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Share your experience, publish articles, showcase project approaches, and help other users learn from your expertise.
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Find answers to common questions about TILOS, the Innovation Hub, Producer Support, and participation in the community.
Talk to TILOS experts
Working with TILOS and have a question, idea, or challenge? Use the Innovation Hub prompt to contact Human Dialog—the producer of TILOS—and experienced practitioners.
