Urban SDK, equipping critical public services with geospatial AI that empowers decisive action with precision and efficiency, has officially announced the launch of new features in a major platform update.
According to certain reports, the stated development brings forth new tools and interface improvements that will make it possible for users, including Urban SDK’s 250+ city and county customers across the U.S., to monitor road conditions and enact traffic safety measures more efficiently.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account the word from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration which claims that motor vehicle crashes alone killed over 39,000 Americans in 2024. In case that wasn’t bad enough, total U.S. road fatalities also remain higher than a decade ago.
Now, while this brings a pressing need for local governments to investigate safety reports and implement traffic calming measures, such an effort also demands them to manually collect data. The stated demand, like you can guess, makes for a financially, labor- and time-intensive affair.
In response, one can seamlessly leverage Urban SDK to optimize resources and quickly, proactively address traffic, transportation and infrastructure challenges, with 24/7 access of updated data from all of their roadways.
“City leaders carry an immense responsibility. Urban SDK was built to serve that mission. With this update, we’re empowering local governments to move faster, act smarter, and prevent tragedies before they happen,” said Drew Messer, co-founder and CEO, Urban SDK. “We believe this is the future of public service—where AI turns data into action, and technology works in lockstep with the people who protect and lead our communities.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the prospect of enhanced workflows. This translates to how Urban SDK brings to the fore automated workflows that are inclusive of customized data-driven reports and location-specific alerts so to flag important events or trends like speeding in school zones.
Next up, we have an assortment of cutting-edge data management tools coming into play. Each one of these tools arrive on the scene bearing an ability to offer one centralized console for custom Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data. Such a mechanism empowers users to install their own datasets alongside Urban SDK-provided data and view them on maps.
“Urban SDK allows me to monitor vehicle traffic trends, identify roadways where drivers are consistently traveling above the speed limit and to strategically deploy resources to locations where higher severity crashes are more likely to occur,” said Sgt. Andres Pina, Arlington Police Department. “Urban SDK allows for me to obtain and evaluate data that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a utilized traffic enforcement strategy.”
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the availability of insights enhancements that can come in handy to provide multi-display filters for helping users analyze their roadways through a selected combination of conditions like time, location and speed limits. Complementing the same would be a new summary analytics panel which houses data trends, hotspot detection, and workflow results in one hub, empowering users to easily understand new changes in their community and take action to address them.
Among other things, it ought to be acknowledged how Urban SDK’s new platform updates will enable future AI integrations and task management features for upcoming premium and executive tiers, including complaint intake form management, AI-assisted reports based on existing government policies, and comparative analysis to measure community impact.
Founded in 2018, Urban SDK’s rise up the ranks stems from helping cities achieve a more precise infrastructure on the back of data and other innovations. The company’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it has, thus far, enabled over 250 local government customers to transform their operations.
“Urban SDK has been a great resource to the City of Chesapeake Traffic Engineering Division,” said Eric Reid, an engineer with the City of Chesapeake, Virginia. “We receive several speed complaints every week from various locations throughout the city, and Urban SDK has provided us with quick and accurate speed data to determine whether speed traffic calming is warranted on city roadways.”
