From local streets to the highways that connect our cities, roads are vital connectors for our communities. However, maintaining safe, efficient, and sustainable road networks is an ongoing challenge. Globally, road crashes cause over one million preventable deaths and 50 million injuries each year, while drivers lose numerous hours to traffic congestion each year.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Roads Management Insights (RMI) is now available to help public sector, road authorities and utility providers improve the safety and efficiency of their networks and operations through data-driven traffic management.
Empowering organizations that manage roads and public utilities with actionable insights
RMI is designed for city and regional planners, road authorities, public utility providers and public sector agencies seeking to better understand and respond to traffic conditions. By accessing Google’s global road information, RMI users can overcome the limitations of traditional data collection methods and proactively respond to congestion / safety issues at scale.
Whether you're managing traffic in a dense urban core, planning safety improvements for rural roads or optimizing telecommunication infrastructure, RMI offers actionable insights at every level.
Strategic planning with aggregated data
With RMI, you can access rich aggregated travel time data to uncover long-term patterns and inform smarter planning decisions. Authorities can analyze congestion trends over time by identifying recurring peak hours, weekday versus weekend flow variations, and seasonal shifts in road usage. They can also pinpoint safety hotspots, such as accident-prone areas, frequent bottlenecks, and inefficient segments of the road network, and build predictive models to forecast future traffic conditions.
These capabilities enable proactive interventions—like signal timing changes, detour planning, or safety enhancements—so infrastructure improvements can be planned and prioritized based on actionable insights.
Historical traffic information about a road in Paris
Real-time monitoring: Respond to what’s happening now
In addition to long-term planning, RMI supports real-time decision-making by giving traffic managers up-to-the-minute visibility into road conditions. They can detect unexpected anomalies such as sudden slowdowns or deviations from normal traffic patterns that may signal an accident, road closure, or congestion spike, and act quickly to mitigate disruptions by adjusting signal timing, rerouting traffic, or pushing real-time alerts to drivers through apps or electronic signage.
By staying continuously informed and responsive, authorities can dynamically manage traffic flow throughout the day, enabling faster, more informed decisions that reduce delays and enhance road safety.
Real-time alerts of a road segment in Paris
How RMI is driving impact
Organizations are already using Roads Management Insights to solve complex traffic challenges and improve their networks.
Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is using RMI to analyze traffic flow patterns along the I-70 mountain corridor, a critical and often congested route. By identifying the precise times and locations of recurring bottlenecks, CDOT can now better plan for seasonal tourist traffic and deploy resources more effectively to keep this essential artery moving.
RMI gives us a granular view of our network that was previously impossible to achieve at scale. We can now make proactive decisions based on historical trends, not just reactive ones.
Lepton, a geospatial solutions company based in India, is using RMI to transform how cities plan and manage traffic.
Instead of relying on costly and fragmented CCTV cameras, we can now deliver high-frequency, citywide insights that help authorities reduce congestion and plan more effectively — all at a fraction of the cost. Director of Innovation Labs at Lepton
NGIS, a geospatial consultancy, is utilizing RMI data to power their traffic management solution, TracemarkFlow.
Thanks to RMI, we can now enable our road authority customers with a clearer, more complete picture of their road network than ever before. RMI provides timely and actionable data, and together with our TraceMark Flow tool, we can provide customized traffic intelligence with coverage and accuracy not seen before. Ultimately this improves road safety and network efficiency for our customers and their citizens. General Manager at NGIS
Ready to get started?
To get access to RMI, fill out this form and we will reach out to you to learn more about your use case and how Road Management Insights can help you. You can also dive deeper by visiting our documentation page to explore the technical capabilities and learn more about how RMI works.
We look forward to seeing how Roads Management Insights can help you create safer, smarter, and more efficient road networks.
