This project hosts software tools to communicate with the VAN bus used in some automotive environments.
VanParser can be used to parse VAN captures according to definitions from a text file. You can find it in the source repository.
The project sparked from a discussion at this forum:
http://www.forum-auto.com/les-clubs/section4/sujet174953.htm
Graham did some interesting research and software
Van analyzer for Windows
The old wiki, now dead, was at http://rt3wiki.free.fr