GMV wins contracts worth over €16 million and leads the way in the implementation of intelligent transportation systems in Spain
GMV’s technological leadership in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and its multiplatform ITS Suite® have earned it contracts worth more than €16 million for the development and launch of the new central intercity public transportation management systems run by the governments of Castilla y León, Castilla‑La Mancha, Murcia, and Aragón, as well as the renewal of its contract with the government of Galicia.
According to the 2022 annual indicator report by Spain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, there are 6,656 municipalities in rural areas, with scattered population centers that make up 83.9% of Spain’s total area and 15.8% of its registered population. The data also show an increasingly elderly population, where the rate of young people (number of people aged 15 or younger for every 100 people aged 65 or older) is 49.9 in rural municipalities compared to 73.8 in urban municipalities. A lack of connectivity, underdeveloped infrastructure, and limited access to quality services have made rural areas less attractive environments for young people to live and work, in addition to adversely impacting the elderly, who lack autonomy.
To take on these challenges and ensure mobility is sustainable, policies and actions must guarantee universal accessibility to basic services, promoting efficient public transportation alternatives adapted to people’s needs.
Given the above, as part of Component 6 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan (one of the national plans drafted by the 27 Member States of the European Union to join the European recovery plan NextGenerationEU), several measures and investments have been included to modernize, digitalize, and enhance security and sustainability for key intercity and intermodal transportation infrastructure throughout Spain.
Towards sustainable mobility
Regional intercity transportation systems in Spain have a high number of routes with low occupancy levels and loss-making operating results, many of which connect sparsely populated towns with the main urban centers. As public services, their main goal is to ensure mobility for the general public and guarantee reliable, sustainable, resilient, and high-quality infrastructure.
The purpose of the European funds is to promote economic, social, and territorial unity within the European Union based on the digital transformation, ecological transition, and growth. This large-scale commitment from the European Union offers an opportunity for crucial cooperation and collaboration between public institutions and the private sector, which will accelerate the transformation toward sustainable mobility.
As part of initiatives to achieve this mobility, in 2023 several autonomous regions put out to tender the supply and implementation of a central ITS management system to integrate all the intercity public transport information from the different concessions that make up the corresponding concession maps, and to manage all the services for the general public, government agencies, and operators that will be developed using this information.
GMV has a powerful and groundbreaking solution to meet the needs of metropolitan transportation authorities and regional transportation consortia, as well as similar agencies on an international scale: ITS Suite®, an advanced public transportation management and passenger information platform, which provides access to a range of ITS applications, such as computer-assisted dispatch and passenger information systems, planning and scheduling, real-time regulation and control, ticketing, eco-driving, security, business intelligence, and much more.
GMV’s leadership
In addition to these contracts for new regional systems, GMV also recently won the contract for continuing Galicia’s computer-assisted dispatch (CAD) system, which the company set up in 2015 and which covers the region’s entire transportation management system, integrating information from 127 concessions and over 3,500 vehicles from the various road transportation operators with their CADs.
In 2022, GMV also upgraded the multi-fleet CAD system for the Barcelona area’s Metropolitan Transport Authority, a pioneering system that GMV set up in 2021.
Currently, more than 400 transportation operators in 100 cities, in countries such as the US, Spain, Malaysia, Poland, Morocco, Sweden, and Mexico all use GMV’s intelligent transportation management and passenger information systems.
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