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History of TILOS

The Story of TILOS

Every successful solution starts with a challenge.

The complete story of TILOS

Nearly three decades of continuous engineering.

As infrastructure projects became larger, longer, and more complex, traditional planning tools struggled to represent the relationship between time, location, and construction progress in a way that planners could easily understand and manage.

This challenge inspired Human Dialog's engineering team to develop technologies and concepts that eventually became TILOS — a planning solution designed specifically for linear infrastructure projects.

Since its inception, TILOS has been produced by Human Dialog's engineering team. Throughout its evolution, Human Dialog transformed complex planning requirements into practical capabilities while preserving the performance, scalability, and usability that planners rely on every day.

Over the following decades, TILOS continuously evolved to address the changing needs of infrastructure projects and their planners. New requirements, ideas, and practical challenges from projects around the world helped shape its direction, leading to the release of 11 major generations of TILOS and nearly three decades of continuous innovation in time-location planning.

Supported by technology developed by Human Dialog, TILOS grew into the world's standard for time location planning, helping organizations plan and deliver railways, highways, tunnels, pipelines, transmission lines, and other complex infrastructure projects.

Today, TILOS is used by planners and project organizations around the world. Human Dialog continues to produce and evolve TILOS, support its users, advance the ObjectReef technology platform behind it, and help shape the future of time-location planning.

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Key Milestones

1997 – 2026

More than 11 major generations of TILOS have been released since the first version was introduced, reflecting nearly three decades of continuous development and innovation in time-location planning.

1997 – 2005

TILOS is conceived, designed, and developed by Human Dialog's engineering team in collaboration with consultants from Linear Project GmbH, creating the foundations of modern time-location planning.

2006 – 2010

Growing adoption across infrastructure projects generates new ideas and requirements. Linear Project consultants collect user feedback from the market while Human Dialog transforms those requirements into new capabilities and continuous product improvements.

2011 – 2012

TILOS undergoes a complete redesign and is migrated to the HumanSTORE virtual machine, establishing the technological foundation that continues to support the product today.

2014

Linear Project GmbH becomes part of Trimble. Human Dialog continues to develop TILOS technology and deliver new product versions.

2014 – 2022

TILOS continues to evolve, supporting increasingly complex infrastructure projects around the world while preserving the performance, scalability, and usability valued by planners.

2022 - 2025

Human Dialog is finalizing work on the cloud-based version of ObjecReef—the future platform for our applications.

2026

ObjectReef DESKTOP is under construction. This will allow Tilos to run on the latest platform and enable cloud-based collaboration.

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