Flow Labs Announces Investment from Bentley iTwin Ventures to Accelerate Transportation Digital Twins
The collaboration unites Flow Labs’ industry leading operational Digital Twin capabilities with Bentley Systems’ construction and planning Digital Twin expertise, to cover the entire transportation life cycle.
OAKLAND, California – Flow Labs, a transportation software technology leader announced that Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, has made an investment in the company through Bentley iTwin Ventures to broaden the scope and reach of Flow Labs offerings. The investment will further enable the iTwin® Platform to span the entire engineering process from start to finish including planning, construction and now operations. Terms of the investment were not announced. Bentley iTwin Ventures is a $100 million corporate venture capital fund that fosters innovation by co-investing in startups and emerging companies that are strategically relevant to Bentley Systems’ objective of advancing infrastructure through going digital.
Flow Labs Founder and CEO Jatish Patel said, “At Flow Labs, our mission is to make transportation cleaner, clearer, and safer for everyone – right now. To solve such complex challenges, you can’t do it alone, and industry collaboration has been a core part of our philosophy. We couldn’t be more excited to have Bentley iTwin Ventures make a strategic investment in Flow Labs.”
Digital Twins have profound and growing implications on transportation cost and efficiency. They allow agencies to create exact replicas of real-world scenarios, enabling them to predict outcomes and test strategies without committing significant worker-hours or building costly infrastructure.
Patel, said the partnership will accelerate Digital Twin capability across the transportation space. “Bentley Systems is a pioneer in the Infrastructure Digital Twin space and through the integration of Bentley System’s iTwin® offerings with Flow Labs market leading Operational Digital Twin technologies, we will be providing the transportation agencies with a comprehensive solution allowing them to leverage Digital Twin technologies across the entire engineering life cycle from start to finish.”
Tom Kurke, Vice President, iTwin Ventures, Bentley Systems, said “We were impressed by the Flow Labs platform which leverages synthetic data sets generated from aggregated, cleaned and fused traffic sensor and connected car data, to optimize road conditions, starting with smart signaling.” Mr. Kurke continued, “Flow Labs looks to significantly reduce vehicle travel times, reduce emissions and make roads safer. We are excited to be going on this journey with Jatish and his team.”
As transportation infrastructure becomes more sophisticated, and with the approaching wave of connected and autonomous vehicles, predictive analytics are crucial to understanding and improving safety while helping eliminate congestion and emissions. From constructing infrastructure to managing and modifying traffic flow through data analytics, Digital Twins provide accurate and actionable information, and significant cost savings for agencies facing increased traffic and stagnant budgets.
Flow Labs’ AI-powered platform generates the most accurate transportation data currently available, analyzing, monitoring and optimizing traffic flows in seconds. In work with agencies, Flow Labs has demonstrated the ability to reduce crash risk by 51%, lower emissions by 21% and reduce travel times by 24%. The company’s traffic operations Digital Twin capability is an essential component of that success.
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About Flow Labs
Flow Labs provides transportation agencies with data-driven software solutions designed to make transportation cleaner, clearer, and safer for everyone—right now. Founded in 2018, the company’s AI-powered platform generates best in class transportation intelligence to analyze, predict and optimize traffic flows across an entire city in seconds. Flow Labs achieves agency goals by using data from connected vehicles and traffic networks, with no need for expensive hardware or infrastructure modifications.
Flow Labs’ entire platform is scalable, offering a cost-effective path to integrate data, view network analytics, monitor traffic flows, optimize multi-modal traffic signals, and provide on-demand transportation project evaluation.
The company is dedicated to helping agencies Find Issues, Fix Problems and Fund projects. For more information, visit https://www.flowlabs.ai or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
