2025 has been a year of acceleration for transportation innovation not just in technology, but in how agencies, cities, and private partners are using data to solve real-world mobility challenges.
The transportation conversation is moving from reactive to predictive. From intersection analytics to AI, and from congestion pricing to curb optimization, 2025 revealed how data is transforming every layer of mobility and what that means for the road ahead.
INRIX Signal Analytics Takes the Spotlight
If there was one clear standout in 2025, it was INRIX Signal Analytics. This year, the platform surpassed 20,000 signalized intersections and supported hundreds of agencies and consultants worldwide. It was a year marked by rapid adoption, major product enhancements, and expanded education, reinforcing Signal Analytics as a core tool for modern signal operations. From individual cities to statewide programs, agencies increasingly relied on the platform to move faster, prioritize effectively, and make confident, data driven decisions at scale.
2025 also brought meaningful product advancements focused on turning insight into action. The launch of the Signals Analytics API enabled scalable and automated delivery, allowing agencies and partners to integrate signal performance metrics directly into their existing systems and workflows. Comparison Mode simplified before and after assessment, making it easier to evaluate operational changes and investments. Enhancements to core metrics and new visualizations, including delay over time, provided clearer visibility into trends and sustained performance, helping agencies identify issues and measure improvement more efficiently.
Looking ahead, Signal Analytics continues to grow through close collaboration with INRIX partners and users. INRIX is entering 2026 with expanded API driven delivery, new and upcoming releases from partners at CATT Lab, and a continued focus on building tools that reflect real operational needs. Alongside product development, INRIX invested in education through new user guides, use cases, user group meetings, and webinars, ensuring agencies remain equipped to get the most value from signal performance data as the platform continues to evolve.
Congestion, Commutes, and the Human Factor
The data this year reaffirmed a clear reality: congestion is back—and it’s evolving. Corporate return-to-office policies have sent ripples through travel demand and peak-hour congestion patterns, while New York City’s launch of cordon-based congestion pricing offered a real-world test of how pricing can reshape traveler behavior. At the same time, increasingly complex travel flows, especially across borders—are underscoring the need for deeper visibility into how congestion propagates between regions. Tools like INRIX Cross-Border Insights shows how advanced analytics can reveal hidden demand, anticipate disruption, and inform smarter policy decisions. The takeaway is clear: congestion isn’t inevitable anymore. With today’s data and analytics, cities can measure, model, and actively manage traffic in ways that simply weren’t possible before.
Beyond Roads: Freight, Supply Chains, and Economics
2025 also marked a growing recognition that transportation data fuels more than just mobility insights; it fuels economic understanding. Analyses like “How Connected Vehicle Data Can Help Track Tariff Impacts Across Supply Chains and Sectors” showed how connected vehicle data can reveal freight flow disruptions, regional trade patterns, and macroeconomic shifts. When mobility data is used creatively; it becomes a powerful lens into the health of the global economy.
The Curb Becomes a Platform
The curb, once an overlooked strip of asphalt, became one of 2025’s most dynamic policy frontiers. With bikes, scooters, delivery vans, ride-hailing services, and pedestrians all competing for space, the curb has emerged as valuable real estate.
From “Cracking the Curb: Helping Cities Solve Last-Mile Deliveries ” to “Predicting On-Street Occupancy in INRIX Curb Analytics”, cities are learning that real-time curb analytics can transform a static asset into a flexible, data-driven platform.
With INRIX Curb Analytics, agencies can understand and optimize this evolving ecosystem. By integrating vehicle movement data, parking transactions, and dwell times, Curb Analytics helps cities measure occupancy, manage turnover, and balance the needs of commerce, mobility, and safety. Its predictive models anticipate demand down to the block face, enabling smarter pricing, dynamic allocation, and equitable access for all modes.
AI the New Mobility Intelligence
2025 was the year transportation data met artificial intelligence at scale. INRIX explored traffic foundation models and generative AI in mobility analytics, proving it’s not just observing AI’s rise but shaping how machine learning enhances real-world transportation data. As AI matures, analytics is evolving from descriptive (“what happened”) to prescriptive (“what should happen next”). At the center of this shift is INRIX Compass, a GenAI-powered mobility intelligence platform built on a vast transportation data lake and powered by Amazon Bedrock. Compass enables planners to ask natural-language questions and instantly receive actionable insights—helping cities anticipate challenges, reduce congestion, and improve safety.
In 2025, cities took a major step toward readiness for autonomous vehicles (AVs) by rethinking how road rules are defined and shared. INRIX Road Rules accelerated this shift by transforming roadway, curb, and lane regulations from static signage and siloed records into a dynamic, machine-readable system. By translating local rules of the road into a standardized, shareable format, Road Rules helps ensure autonomous systems can safely navigate complex urban environments. As automation accelerates, this kind of digital regulatory infrastructure is becoming as essential as sensors and maps—laying the groundwork for safer, more scalable AV deployment.
Beyond Roads: Freight, Supply Chains, and Economics
2025 also marked a growing recognition that transportation data fuels more than just mobility insights; it fuels economic understanding. Analyses like “How Connected Vehicle Data Can Help Track Tariff Impacts Across Supply Chains and Sectors” showed how connected vehicle data can reveal freight flow disruptions, regional trade patterns, and macroeconomic shifts. When mobility data is used creatively; it becomes a powerful lens into the health of the global economy.
Looking Ahead
As 2026 approaches, one message stands out: the future of mobility belongs to those who harness data with purpose. From adaptive signals to AI-driven insights, the transportation network is becoming more intelligent, equitable, and efficient; built on collaboration between technology and human ingenuity. INRIX remains at the forefront of this transformation, turning vast streams of data into actionable intelligence that helps cities move smarter, safer, and cleaner.
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