What Conveyal does

Conveyal is a Boston-based software engineering firm that provides cloud-based accessibility analysis software for transportation and land-use planning. Its flagship product, Conveyal Analysis, is a SaaS platform accessible at analysis.conveyal.com that ingests open transit (GTFS) and street (OpenStreetMap) data to build multi-modal networks and evaluate scenarios for walking, cycling, and transit in terms of who can reach what destinations, and how reliably, using research-backed statistical methods such as time-percentile distributions and decay functions. The platform runs on a computation cluster that scales to hundreds of servers and supports analyses across up to 5 million grid cells, with results available in seconds. Adjacent offerings include the open-source R5 routing engine (also embeddable in third-party frameworks such as BEAM), the Taui extension for stakeholder engagement, and the CoAXs interface developed with MIT.

Conveyal serves three primary customer segments: state and municipal departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations (e.g., MassDOT, NYSDOT, LADOT, Indianapolis MPO, Mid-America Regional Council, Atlanta-Region Transit Link Authority, Marseille AGAM); transport consulting firms (e.g., Arup, Movares); and academic/research institutions plus NGOs (e.g., MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, WRI, Transportation for America, World Bank, Swiss Federal Railways, Entur). The company earns revenue through quote-based, tailored SaaS subscriptions priced by team size and metropolitan regions covered, typically on multi-year terms, supplemented by custom consulting and software enhancements. Educational and research subscriptions — including the NoCARS no-cost program — extend reach into the academic segment.

Conveyal, LLC is affiliated with EBP US, Inc. through a shared copyright and overlapping personnel (Cecilia Viggiano, Raef Eddins), and traces its origins to the OpenPlans nonprofit and open-source transit routing work dating to 2008. The company operates without disclosed external venture capital or private equity funding, and is sustained by client subscriptions and engagements across at least four continents.

Name

Conveyal

Legal name

Conveyal, LLC

Website

https://conveyal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Conveyal provides cloud-based accessibility analysis software for transportation and land-use planning, serving government agencies, consulting firms, and academic researchers. Its SaaS platform combines open-source multimodal routing with subscription pricing to evaluate transit, walking, and cycling scenarios.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Watertown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription-based SaaS: Conveyal operates as a cloud-hosted SaaS platform with subscriptions tailored for team size and metropolitan regions covered. Organizations such as LADOT maintain multi-year subscriptions. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Conveyal provides a cloud-hosted SaaS platform (Conveyal Analysis) for rapid, detailed accessibility analysis of public transportation and land-use scenarios. The platform automatically generates multi-modal networks from open data sources (GTFS, OpenStreetMap) and uses its open-source R5 routing engine with distributed cloud computation to evaluate millions of origins and destinations in seconds. It is sold primarily to government transportation agencies, transit authorities, metropolitan planning organizations, engineering consultancies, and academic researchers via tailored subscription agreements.

Product overview

Conveyal offers Conveyal Analysis as its primary cloud-based platform for accessibility analysis of public transportation and land-use scenarios. The core product integrates with the open-source R5 routing engine for multimodal network analysis. Additional offerings include Taui for stakeholder engagement, the NoCARS educational subscription program, and CoAXs for MIT research collaboration. The platform is delivered as a SaaS subscription with tiered pricing based on team size and geographic regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conveyal Analysis Cloud-based platform for rapid, detailed accessibility analysis of public transportation and land-use scenarios. Enables multi-modal network analysis for walking, cycling, and transit evaluation with scenario comparison capabilities and stakeholder engagement features.
• Conveyal R5 Routing Engine Open-source multimodal transportation routing engine that performs one-to-many searches on transit, bike, walk, and car networks. Underpins Conveyal Analysis and serves as the prototype for OpenTripPlanner 2's transit routing.
• Taui Interactive stakeholder engagement extension for publishing web-based comparison sites that allow stakeholders to explore accessibility, travel times, and transit itineraries for different scenarios. Pre-published results eliminate the need for 24/7 server support.
• Better Bus Explorer Public-facing interactive web tool for exploring transit accessibility and travel times, allowing users to compare trips and see reachable areas from specific locations.
• CoAXs (Collaborative Accessibility Explorer) Custom user interface developed with MIT for interactive planning exercises on large-format displays, allowing stakeholders to select transportation network changes and see accessibility impacts in seconds.

Quantifiable outcome

• Scenarios are applied to baseline network instantaneously with results visible in seconds
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and major.

• EBP US, Inc.coreOthersConveyal, LLC and EBP US, Inc. share the company copyright notice. Cecilia Viggiano serves as EBP Vice President, Transit, and Raef Eddins serves as EBP Lead, Software Engagement, both with EBP. This appears to be a deeper organizational relationship between Conveyal LLC and EBP US, Inc.
• OpenTripPlanner (OTP) CommunitycoreTechnology or IntegrationConveyal was primarily responsible for previous versions of OpenTripPlanner, and Conveyal's optimized R5 routing engine served as a prototype for a complete rewrite of transit routing in OTP2. Conveyal provides ongoing technical guidance on development of OpenTripPlanner 2, used daily by millions of passengers worldwide.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (BEAM Modeling Framework)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerConveyal collaborated on the Behavior, Energy, Autonomy, and Mobility (BEAM) modeling framework, a MATSim extension developed at Berkeley Lab. Conveyal R5 underlies multimodal choiceset generation in BEAM, allowing models of regionwide electrification and energy demand to account for detailed itinerary alternatives.
• MovarescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDutch engineering firm Movares has partnered with Conveyal since 2015, initially for Metropolitan Rotterdam and The Hague planning. The Netherlands Infrastructure Ministry adopted Conveyal's methodology for regions throughout the country. Movares actively co-created features and provided feedback on real-world planning demands.
• Entur / Ruter OslocoreTechnology or IntegrationEntur (Norwegian government-owned journey planning company) and Oslo's regional transport authority Ruter led development of OpenTripPlanner 2 with Conveyal providing technical guidance. Conveyal's R5 engine served as prototype for transit routing in OTP2.
• MIT Mobility Futures CollaborativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMIT Mobility Futures Collaborative worked with Conveyal to provide analysis capabilities to CoAXs, a custom user interface used on large-format displays for interactive planning exercises. Conveyal's algorithms and high-performance computing enabled stakeholders to see accessibility impacts in seconds.
• World BankmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConveyal worked with the World Bank for more than five years supporting urban transportation planning initiatives in dozens of countries including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Djibouti, Kenya, and Senegal. Conveyal provided custom software enhancements to analyze new types of problems such as affordability and cycling comfort.
• World Resources Institute (WRI)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and research collaborators have leveraged Conveyal's tools to provide insights into urban accessibility and equity in cities in Turkey, Mexico, South Africa, and Kenya through various research projects.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Replica: Replica offers urban mobility and travel-demand analytics for public-sector planners, serving DOTs, MPOs, and city agencies. Comparable buyer profile and use cases (transportation scenario analysis for public agencies).
• StreetLight Data: StreetLight Data provides transportation analytics SaaS used by DOTs, MPOs, and consultancies to measure multimodal travel patterns from big-data sources. Highly comparable to Conveyal in customer base (transit agencies and planning firms) and analytical mission.
• Remix (by Via): Remix is a transit planning platform serving transit agencies, MPOs, and cities to design and evaluate routes and networks — a direct functional peer to Conveyal Analysis. Both products target the same government transit planning buyers with web-based scenario tools.

Others

• Steer (a Stantec company): Steer is a transport consultancy serving public agencies on accessibility, transit, and urban mobility projects, frequently collaborating with software vendors like Conveyal. Comparable as a buyer and partner rather than a direct SaaS competitor.
• WSP USA (Transportation): WSP is a global engineering and planning consultancy that works with transit agencies and DOTs on multimodal planning, often using tools like Conveyal. Comparable as a buyer/ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor.

Emerging players

• Spare: Spare provides on-demand microtransit and paratransit software for transit agencies and operators. Comparable transit-tech SaaS category and customer base, with potential overlap in accessibility analysis for on-demand transit.
• Optibus: Optibus is a SaaS platform for transit operations, scheduling, and network planning for agencies and operators worldwide. Comparable transit-tech buyer segment and SaaS delivery model, with overlap in network scenario workflows.
• Swiftly: Swiftly provides transit agencies with real-time operations and planning analytics, including route performance and on-time data. Adjacent SaaS to Conveyal in the same transit-agency buyer segment, though more operations-focused than accessibility-focused.

Broad incumbents

• ESRI (ArcGIS): ESRI's ArcGIS is the dominant GIS platform used by transportation agencies for spatial analysis, network modeling, and planning. It is a broad incumbent whose Network Analyst extension overlaps with Conveyal's network analytics, often bundled into existing agency IT estates.
• Cambridge Systematics: Cambridge Systematics is a transportation consulting and analytics firm serving DOTs, MPOs, and federal agencies with travel demand modeling and planning tools. Overlaps with Conveyal in customer base and analytical methods for transit and multimodal planning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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