Transportation & Mobility

Using AWS, Agentschap Wegen & Verkeer (AWV) can comply with the latest data protection regulations and accelerate development to deliver a more reliable digital experience to inspectors on the road. The government agency is responsible for maintaining road infrastructure in the Flemish part of Belgium. AWV has created a secure infrastructure that allows easy compliance through services such as AWS Key Management Service.

Using AWS, the City of Newport in Wales, UK, deployed smart city Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to improve air quality, flood control, and waste management in just a few months?as opposed to the year or more it would have taken using traditional server infrastructure. Through the AWS Marketplace, Newport licenses Davra Networks ConnecThings.io, which runs on AWS IoT.

With more than 50 million vehicle-licensing transactions per year and records on every vehicle in the United Kingdom, DVLA is the definitive source of truth for a vast amount of valuable public information. The organization has been gradually digitizing its services for more than 10 years using an API-based approach, and is continually looking for ways to modernize access to the valuable public data it maintains.

As institutions open their data up, they empower economic and social entrepreneurs to turn it into useful information and build new services and products for the general public driving innovation. Thanks to open data, people have accurate information about the weather, transportation services, demographics in markets across the world, among other things. Thanks to the cloud, this information is reliable, secure, and is available at their fingertips.