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Dive brief:
- Construction giant AECOM is strengthening its infrastructure planning and data capabilities following a new partnership with mapping and location company TomTom.
- Through the partnership, Dallas-based AECOM will integrate several of TomTom’s data silos that will help the builder improve their mobility and infrastructure planning; traffic systems management and operations and transportation modeling, according to TomTom’s Feb. 12 announcement.
- According to the statement, AECOM will have access to TomTom’s traffic statistics, origin destination analysis, historical traffic volumes, route tracking, live traffic and destination analysis.
Diving knowledge:
One offering, TomTom Live Traffic, provides low-latency, spatially and temporally accurate live observed speed data and traffic incident detection to traffic management centres, road network managers and emergency services. AECOM’s traffic management teams will use this technology to increase safety and efficiency on the road networks they control. The company will also leverage traffic data to improve infrastructure planning.
AECOM will also use the technology to improve accessibility, post-project assessment and transportation policy research, Dwight Pullen, AECOM’s senior vice president and global leader of aviation and surface transportation, said in the news release.
“This collaboration will enable us to deliver innovative solutions that address the evolving demands of transportation and urban development,” Pullen said.
Follow the association AECOM forecast for a solid infrastructure cycle in 2026. CEO Troy Rudd told investors during his fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call in November that state DOT budgets remained high and that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was still bolstering work.
However, AECOM told investors during its fiscal first quarter earnings call on Feb. 11 that Federal awards activity slowed during the 2025 government shutdown. Days after those comments, another partial one The government shutdown began Saturday on disputes related to the funding of the Department of Homeland Security.
Despite these obstacles, Rudd told investors that demand had not slowed and the company was looking forward to the next motorway bill now. making its way through Congress.
