Roads Management Insights is now available: Build safer, smarter, and more efficient road networks

From local streets to the highways that connect our cities, roads are vital connectors for our communities. Yet, maintaining safe, efficient, and sustainable road networks is a constant challenge. Globally, road crashes cause over one million preventable deaths and 50 million injuries each year, and drivers lose countless hours to traffic congestion.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Roads Management Insights (RMI) is now available. It helps public sector agencies, road authorities, and utility providers improve the safety and efficiency of their networks and operations through data-driven traffic management.

Empowering organizations that manage roads and public utilities with actionable insights

RMI is designed for city and regional planners, road authorities, public utility providers, and public sector agencies looking to better understand and respond to traffic conditions. By accessing Google’s global road information, RMI users can overcome the limitations of traditional data collection methods. They can proactively respond to congestion and safety issues at scale.

Whether you're managing traffic in a dense urban core, planning safety improvements for rural roads, or optimizing telecommunication infrastructure, RMI offers actionable insights at every level.

Strategic planning with aggregated data

With RMI, you can access rich aggregated travel time data to uncover long-term patterns and inform smarter planning decisions. Authorities can analyze congestion trends over time by identifying recurring peak hours, weekday versus weekend flow variations, and seasonal shifts in road usage.

They can also pinpoint safety hotspots—such as accident-prone areas, frequent bottlenecks, and inefficient segments of the road network—and build predictive models to forecast future traffic conditions. These capabilities enable proactive interventions, such as signal timing changes, detour planning, or safety enhancements. This means infrastructure improvements can be planned and prioritized based on actionable insights.

Real-time monitoring: Respond to what’s happening now

Beyond long-term planning, RMI supports real-time decision-making by giving traffic managers up-to-the-minute visibility into road conditions. They can detect unexpected anomalies, such as sudden slowdowns or deviations from normal traffic patterns, which may signal an accident, road closure, or congestion spike.

Managers can act quickly to mitigate disruptions by adjusting signal timing, rerouting traffic, or pushing real-time alerts to drivers through apps or electronic signage. By staying continuously informed and responsive, authorities can dynamically manage traffic flow throughout the day. This enables faster, more informed decisions that reduce delays and enhance road safety.

(Source: https://mapsplatform.google.com/resources/blog/roads-management-insights-is-now-available-build-safer-smarter-and-more-efficient-road-networks/)