Siemens tops ABI Research’s traffic management systems vendor ranking

Siemens ranks first in ABI Research’s latest competitive assessment, Smart Transportations Market Research, which evaluates traffic management systems hardware, software, solution, and data providers. It performs strongly on innovation criteria across the board, with an extensive portfolio for traffic monitoring and video surveillance, operations and management centres, modelling and planning, intelligent traffic lights, digital signage, and dynamic tolling. It also scores high on implementation criteria
February 5, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
189 Siemens ranks first in 5725 ABI Research’s latest competitive assessment, Smart Transportations Market Research, which evaluates traffic management systems hardware, software, solution, and data providers.

It performs strongly on innovation criteria across the board, with an extensive portfolio for traffic monitoring and video surveillance, operations and management centres, modelling and planning, intelligent traffic lights, digital signage, and dynamic tolling. It also scores high on implementation criteria such as regional coverage, market share, and quality, and reliability.

“Siemens forms part of a top three of ICT players also including 62 IBM and 1028 Cisco, developing traffic management systems as new business development opportunities leveraging their IT, big data, communication, and machine vision assets. All three are also heavily involved in smart city projects and alliances such as the Smart Cities Council. However, while Siemens has a very strong hardware and systems offer, in the longer term, as the focus in traffic management shifts to big data, analytics, and cognitive capabilities in a wider IoT context, it will increasingly be challenged by runners-up IBM and Cisco,” says VP and practice director Dominique Bonte.

Behind the top three, dedicated ITS players such as 81 Kapsch are investing heavily in traffic management technology, having acquired 5683 Transdyn in 2014 and continuing to diversify away from its core electronic toll collection business. Beyond this, a level playing field of a long tail of smaller vendors are competing for market share, often operating more locally, offering traffic management systems as a secondary solution, or providing only specific components of traffic management systems such as simulation and analytics tools.

These findings are part of ABI Research’s which covers V2X, ETC, traffic management systems, ITS, multimodal transportation, and electric vehicles.

560 ITS America and the 4944 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have spoken in support of President Obama's Fiscal Year 2016 budget, which would increase funding for intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
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