gevas humberg & partner

What gevas humberg & partner does

gevas humberg & partner is a privately held German engineering consultancy headquartered in Munich with a second office in Karlsruhe. Founded in 1980 and owned by its three managing directors (Dr. Christoph Hessel, Dr. Gerhard Listl, and Stephan Humberg), the firm provides independent planning, consulting, and research services across four business fields: Verkehrsplanung (traffic planning), Verkehrstechnik (traffic technology), Verkehrsmanagement (traffic management), and Daten und Modelle (data and models). Its offering spans mobility concepts, traffic signal planning and software, traffic flow simulation, C-ITS-based public transport acceleration, parking guidance systems, and environmentally sensitive traffic management, with active involvement in national and international research projects on AI-based signal control and quantum computing in traffic simulation.

The firm serves a predominantly public-sector client base including municipalities (Landeshauptstadt München, Stadt Augsburg), municipal transport operators (Stadtwerke München/MVG, Stadtwerke Augsburg, INVG), state and federal road authorities (BASt, Staatliches Bauamt Freising), and private enterprises (AUDI, BMW, Siemens). Revenue is generated through project-based consulting engagements won via public procurement tenders, direct commissions, and framework contracts such as the four-year traffic engineering studies contract with the City of Munich. The firm's go-to-market is sales-led with no consumer-facing channels; demand generation relies on professional reputation, association memberships (FGSV, VIV, ITS Bavaria), and participation in industry events such as IAA Mobility.

Technically, gevas humberg & partner differentiates through 45+ years of domain specialization, a multidisciplinary team of 40+ specialists, its own data collection infrastructure (video cameras, side radar, traffic counters), and active contributions to industry standards. It holds pre-qualification in the official German register of pre-qualified companies and is registered as a Beratender Ingenieur firm in the Bayerische Ingenieurekammer-Bau, both of which are baseline requirements for major public-sector engineering contracts in Germany.

Name

gevas humberg & partner

Legal name

Ingenieurgesellschaft für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik mbH

Website

https://gevas-ingenieure.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

gevas humberg & partner is a privately held German engineering consultancy headquartered in Munich that provides independent traffic planning, traffic technology, and traffic management services to municipalities, public transport operators, and select private enterprises across Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

München

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering consulting and planning services: Independent planning and consulting services for traffic planning, traffic technology, and traffic management projects. Services are delivered through public procurement tenders and direct commissions, typically as project-based consulting engagements with fees tied to scope and duration.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

gevas humberg & partner is an engineering consultancy delivering independent planning, consulting, and R&D services across four business fields: traffic planning (integrated mobility and public transport concepts), traffic technology (signal system design, parking guidance, traffic management centers), traffic management (congestion and emission reduction strategies, including C-ITS and AI-based approaches), and data and models (traffic surveys, macroscopic/microscopic modeling and simulation). Projects span end-to-end support from concept through tendering, implementation, and commissioning of traffic and IT infrastructure.

Product overview

gevas humberg & partner is an engineering consultancy for traffic planning and traffic technology with four core business fields: Verkehrsplanung (Traffic Planning), Verkehrstechnik (Traffic Technology), Verkehrsmanagement (Traffic Management), and Daten und Modelle (Data and Models). The offering consists of integrated consulting and planning services rather than a software product. Core services include strategic mobility concepts, traffic signal system planning, microscopic and macroscopic traffic simulations, C-ITS-based public transport acceleration, dynamic parking guidance systems, and traffic management systems. The company employs over 40 specialists across Munich and Karlsruhe locations, serving municipal and government clients throughout Germany with a focus on innovative solutions including AI in traffic signal control.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Verkehrsplanung (Traffic Planning) Strategic and integrated planning services covering public and private transport, freight transport, and urban development support. Includes traffic and mobility concepts, air quality/electromobility planning, urban development concepts, public transport concepts, tariff concepts, and bidding services for German municipalities and public clients.
• Verkehrstechnik (Traffic Technology) Technical assessments for sizing and capacity of road traffic facilities, traffic signal planning, design, tendering, and construction supervision of traffic signal systems, traffic management centers, parking guidance systems, traffic influence systems on highways, and public transport operations management for German public and private sector clients.
• Verkehrsmanagement (Traffic Management) Strategic concepts for improving traffic quality combining technical, organizational, and cross-modal solutions, with a special focus on reducing congestion and air pollution in cities. Includes traffic management concepts, environmentally sensitive traffic management, and innovation/research projects (e.g., C-ITS, AI-based signal control).
• Daten und Modelle (Data and Models) Data collection and analysis services including traffic surveys using video cameras and radar, traffic counting, data concepts, macroscopic traffic model forecasts for urban and regional demand modeling, and microscopic traffic flow simulations for analyzing traffic impacts and optimizing operations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Optimization of approximately 85 traffic signals across 10 corridors in Augsburg through network control, improving urban traffic flow.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (FGSV)coreStrategic or Co-development Partnergevas humberg & partner is an active member of the FGSV working group on 'Application of AI in Traffic Management'. The company contributes to standards and guidelines development in the German traffic engineering sector through this membership.
• Verband der Ingenieurbüros für Verkehrstechnik (VIV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive member of VIV, the association of engineering firms for traffic technology in Germany, contributing to professional development and industry representation.
• ITS BavariacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember of ITS Bavaria, the regional intelligent transport systems network, supporting innovation in traffic technology and management in Bavaria.
• Bayerische Ingenieurekammer-BaucoreOthersBoth managing directors Dr. Christoph Hessel and Dr. Gerhard Listl are registered as Consulting Engineers (Beratende Ingenieure) in the Bayerische Ingenieurekammer-Bau, a public law corporation representing professional engineers in Bavaria.
• TU München (Lehrstuhl für Verkehrstechnik)coreStrategic or Co-development Partnergevas humberg & partner cooperates with the Chair of Traffic Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on research projects, including a feasibility study on the use of autonomous electric vehicles to expand public transport offerings in Unterschleißheim, and projects on automated and connected road traffic.
• Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)coreStrategic or Co-development Partnergevas humberg & partner collaborated with BASt on the Digitales Testfeld Autobahn (DTA A9) project for developing functional and suitability testing procedures for area-wide parking detection systems, and on the update of the MARZ (Merkblatt für die Ausstattung von Verkehrsrechnerzentralen und Unterzentralen) guidelines.
• DLR Quantencomputing InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development Partnergevas humberg & partner participates in the DLR (German Aerospace Center) Quantum Computing Initiative, specifically the QI-TraSiCo project, exploring quantum computing applications in traffic simulation and control.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• PTV Group: Karlsruhe-headquartered transportation planning software and consulting firm offering traffic modeling, simulation, and mobility planning services — directly overlapping with gevas's Verkehrsplanung, traffic modeling, and simulation capabilities and serving the same German municipal and public-transport clients.
• PB Consult GmbH: German traffic engineering consultancy providing planning, traffic modeling, signal design, and ITS consulting services to municipalities and transport operators — closely comparable in size, geography, and service mix.
• Schüßler-Plan Ingenieurgesellschaft: German engineering consultancy with substantial traffic, infrastructure, and urban mobility planning practices, competing for similar municipal and federal infrastructure mandates and offering comparable planning and supervision services.
• BUNG Ingenieure AG: German engineering consultancy active in transport infrastructure, traffic planning, and project management, with comparable municipal-client focus and service portfolio.
• Vössing Ingenieure: German engineering firm specializing in transport infrastructure planning, traffic engineering, and construction supervision — overlapping with gevas's Verkehrstechnik and traffic management offerings for public-sector clients.

Broad incumbents

• Ramboll: Global engineering, consulting, and design firm with a significant European mobility and transport planning practice, increasingly active in German smart-city and C-ITS projects that overlap with gevas's niche.
• AFRY: European engineering and design consultancy with established transport, mobility, and traffic practices across multiple geographies — competes for large-scale planning mandates and offers the bundling capabilities gevas lacks.
• Sweco Deutschland: German arm of Swedish engineering consultancy Sweco, offering traffic, mobility, and infrastructure planning as part of a much broader multi-disciplinary portfolio — competes for similar public-sector mandates but at significantly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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