Transportation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with leading transportation technologies to build cloud solutions for airports, seaports, mass transit, tollways, municipal planning, parking authorities, motor vehicle departments, traffic management departments, and departments of transportation. These transportation solutions enable constituent service improvements, making streets safer, improving mobility, and delivering savings.
Use cases
Connected IoT and urban mobility
AWS removes the complexity of implementing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions into an organization. Whether deployed in airports, seaports, tollways or parking, AWS helps transportation agencies protect and understand their data.
Customer engagement, GIS, and mapping
Open data solutions redefine and repurpose Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allowing for advanced mapping and tracking. Combine aerial imagery, elevation models, satellite imagery, and high-resolution radar to understand resource depreciation and deployment, climate monitoring, and manage the flow of traffic.
Analytics and machine learning
AWS has the capacity to store and analyze petabytes of data at the edge. You can choose from pre-trained machine learning services for computer vision, language, recommendations, and forecasting to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale.
Crossing data barriers with data lakes
Cities are taking a new approach to deal with an increase in the volume and variety of the data. Data lakes are ideal for storing and processing data at this scale. AWS provides a comprehensive, secure, and cost-effective portfolio of services that enable customers to build their data lake in the cloud and analyze all their data with the broadest set of analytical approaches.
Build the future of transportation with the cloud
Join this panel to learn how global leaders in the transportation industry are building resiliency and enhancing community experience through modernization. Hear how Elizabeth River Crossings, a toll operator in Virginia, migrated their legacy infrastructure to the cloud, and implemented a new serverless back-office system. Learn how Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) uses the cloud to predict patronage numbers across their transport network enabling better workforce planning and asset utilization. Also hear how one of the largest toll road operators, Transurban, leverages the cloud to innovate across its portfolio of 20 roads and customer products in Australia and North America.

How AWS helps transportation agencies
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Security Compliance
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Live Video Analytics
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Data Lake
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Big Data Analytics
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Hybrid Cloud
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Security Compliance
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Security and Compliance
We know customers care deeply about privacy and data security. That’s why AWS gives customers ownership and control over their customer content by design through simple, but powerful tools that allow customers to determine where their customer content will be stored, secure their customer content in transit or at rest, and manage access to AWS services and resources. AWS GovCloud (US) is available to government customers, organizations in government-regulated industries, and other private entities that meet AWS GovCloud (US) requirements.
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Live Video Analytics
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Video Analytics
Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. You just provide an image or video to the Rekognition API, and the service can identify the objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Amazon Rekognition also provides highly accurate facial analysis and facial recognition on images and video that you provide. You can detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide variety of user verification, people counting, and public safety use cases.
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Data Lake
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Data Lake
Many AWS customers require a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake is a new and increasingly popular way to store and analyze data because it allows companies to manage multiple data types from a wide variety of sources, and store this data, structured and unstructured, in a centralized repository.
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Big Data Analytics
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Big Data Analytics
Despite the hype, many organizations don’t realize they have a big data problem, or they simply don’t think of it in terms of big data. In general, an organization is likely to benefit from big data technologies when existing databases and applictions can no longer scale to support sudden increases in volume, variety, and velocity of data.
Failure to correctly address big data challenges can result in escalating costs, as well as reduced productivity and competitiveness. On the other hand, a sound big data strategy can help organizations reduce costs and gain operational efficiencies by migrating existing workloads to big data technologies, as well as deploying new applications to capitalize on new opportunities.
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Hybrid Cloud
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Hybrid Cloud
In cloud computing, hybrid cloud refers to the use of both on-premises resources in addition to public cloud resources. A hybrid cloud enables an organization to migrate applications and data to the cloud, extend their datacenter capacity, utilize new cloud-native capabilities, move applications closer to customers, and create a backup and disaster recovery solution with cost-effective high availability.
Related resources
Virginia Tollways Improve Resiliency
Elizabeth River Crossings (ERC) needed to improve facility and system resiliency for uninterrupted service. ERC migrated their on-premises back office, external website, and all databases to AWS to improve system uptime performance and customer experience.
City of Louisville Open Source Traffic Tools
Louisville’s Innovation Department, along with other cities, created an open-source, cloud-based system called Waze WARP. WARP now gives 900+ government Waze Connected Citizens Program (CCP) partners access to a free platform that uses real-time and historic traffic data to improve mobility, pedestrian and bike safety, road conditions, and emergency response.
Transport for London Open Data Ecosystem
Transport for London (TfL) uses AWS to improve the agility and responsiveness of its own digital services and to establish a third-party developer community (primarily of tech startups) that can leverage its openly-licensed travel data stream to build their own travel-planning applications for Londoners.
Mobility and Transportation in the Cloud
Our cities are becoming smarter every day. The cloud helps transportation agencies by providing the security, scalability, and agility they need to fulfill their mission and improve the lives of citizens. In this video, learn how the transportation and mobility industry uses the AWS Cloud to migrate and free up resources, improve resiliency, skill up their workforce, and more.