Dive Brief:
- Construction giant AECOM is bolstering its infrastructure planning and data capabilities following a new partnership with mapping and location firm TomTom.
- Through the partnership, Dallas-based AECOM will integrate several of TomTom’s data siloes that will help the builder enhance its mobility and infrastructure planning; traffic systems management and operations and transport modeling, according to the Feb. 12 announcement from TomTom.
- AECOM will have access to TomTom’s Traffic Stats, Origin Destination Analysis, Historic Traffic Volumes, Route Monitoring, Live Traffic and Junction Analytics products, according to the release.
Dive Insight:
One offering — TomTom Live Traffic — provides low-latency, spatially and temporally accurate live observed speed data and road traffic incident detection to traffic management centers, road network managers and emergency services. AECOM’s traffic management teams will use that technology to increase safety and efficiency on the road networks they monitor. The firm will also leverage traffic data to improve infrastructure planning.
AECOM will also use the technology to improve accessibility, post-project evaluation and transport policy research, said Dwight Pullen, senior vice president and global aviation and surface transport leader for AECOM, 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.
The partnership follows AECOM’s prediction for a strong infrastructure cycle in 2026. CEO Troy Rudd told investors during its fiscal fourth quarter earnings call in November that state DOT budgets remained high and that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act still bolstered work.
However, AECOM told investors during its fiscal first quarter earnings call on Feb. 11 that federal award activity slowed during 2025’s government shutdown. Days after those comments, another partial government shutdown began Saturday over disputes concerning Department of Homeland Security funding.
Despite those hurdles, Rudd told investors that demand hadn’t slowed, and that the firm was looking forward to the forthcoming highway bill now working its way through Congress.
