dtv-verkehrsconsult gmbh

What dtv-verkehrsconsult gmbh does

DTV-Verkehrsconsult GmbH is an independent, founder-managed German engineering consultancy headquartered in Aachen, founded in 2004 by Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Ziegler and Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Kathmann. It specializes in road traffic data analysis and provides traffic monitoring, road safety screening, video-based survey, traffic planning, and vehicle restraint system consulting services to federal and state ministries, road construction administrations, universities, and engineering offices. Customers are primarily German public-sector road authorities, with international project work delivered in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, and Israel. The firm is registered as a private limited liability company (GmbH) with no external shareholders, no parent company, and no disclosed funding.

Its core technical assets are a portfolio of proprietary products that span hardware specifications, certified software, and web platforms. The Traffic Monitoring system uses BASt-certified side-radar counting devices integrated into roadside marker posts with GPS/GPRS data transmission, replacing manual counts with continuous high-precision DTV data. The Verkehrssicherheitsscreening (Traffic Safety Screening) platform is an internet-based, map-driven application integrating accident data, road geometry, traffic volumes, and speeds with cascading role-based authorization. Supporting tools include DAUZ (automatic classifier processing), HRDTV-Pro (AADT calculation from short-term counts), DIANA (automatic evaluation of monitoring data), and WDM (web-based traffic data management). The firm also pioneered GDPR-compliant video survey methodology in collaboration with the Federal Data Protection Commissioner.

DTV-Verkehrsconsult monetizes through project-based professional services, public-tender wins, and software licensing. Engagements are won via competitive public tenders (e.g., nationwide German road traffic census), direct commissions from BASt and state ministries, and long-term framework relationships such as the ASFiNAG Austria engagement ongoing since 2004. The firm operates with approximately 22–25 employees, including traffic engineers, software developers, and technicians, supported by student assistants from RWTH Aachen and FH Aachen. Marketing is expertise-driven — conferences, BASt research publications, FGSV committee participation, and community events — with no evidence of paid advertising. Revenue and pricing are not publicly disclosed.

Name

dtv-verkehrsconsult gmbh

Legal name

DTV-Verkehrsconsult GmbH

Website

https://dtv-verkehrsconsult.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DTV-Verkehrsconsult GmbH, founded in 2004 in Aachen, is an independent German engineering consultancy that develops traffic counting systems, road safety analytics platforms, and video-based survey tools for federal and state road authorities, ministries, and research institutes in Germany and selected international markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Traffic Engineering & Transport Data Consulting

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (54137)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Traffic & Revenue Analytics, Forecasting & Performance Reporting for Tolling (TLAJABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Toll Plaza / Lane Equipment & Field Systems (Gantry, Sensors, Cameras, AVC) (TLAJABAH), Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) / Video Tolling & Enforcement (TLAJABAB)

Keywords

• Traffic data analysis
• Traffic monitoring systems
• Road safety screening
• Transport planning consulting
• Vehicle restraint systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Aachen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consultancy Services: Core revenue stream from providing traffic data analysis, traffic monitoring, road safety screening, video surveys, traffic planning, and vehicle restraint system consulting to government and private clients. Revenue is project-based, typically won via public tenders or direct commissions.
2. Software Licensing: Sale and licensing of proprietary software programs including DAUZ (for automatic classifier data processing), HRDTV-Pro (for short-term count evaluation), and Traffic Count Management (PTV-TCM). Customized online platforms for data collection and analysis offered as SaaS.
3. Research Projects: EU-classified research company conducting R&D projects for BASt, federal ministries, and state ministries. Multiple simultaneous research projects generate revenue through commissioned scientific studies on topics including traffic surveys, vehicle behavior, road safety, and infrastructure planning.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

DTV-Verkehrsconsult is an independent engineering and research consultancy that collects, processes, and evaluates road traffic data for federal and state road authorities, motorway operators, municipalities, and universities. Core offerings include the Traffic Monitoring counting system (BASt-certified side-radar mobile counting), the Traffic Safety Screening web platform for integrated accident and road data analysis, GDPR-compliant ANPR video surveys for origin-destination studies, and proprietary evaluation software (DAUZ, HRDTV-Pro, DIANA) alongside the WDM web-based traffic data management platform.

Product overview

DTV-Verkehrsconsult GmbH is an independent R&D engineering consultancy specializing in road traffic analysis. The company offers a portfolio of interconnected products and services: its core offerings include the Traffic Monitoring system (side-radar based mobile counting with automatic data transmission), the Traffic Safety Screening platform (web-based accident/road data analysis), and Video Surveys (ANPR-based origin-destination studies). Supporting software products include DIANA (automatic evaluation of monitoring data), HRDTV-Pro (AADT calculation from short-term counts), and DAUZ (classifier data processing). The WDM (Web-based Traffic Data Management) platform serves as the central data management and visualization layer. Additional services encompass traffic planning, vehicle restraint system consulting, research projects, and training courses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Verkehrsmonitoring (Traffic Monitoring) Mobile automatic traffic counting system using BASt-certified side-radar technology integrated into standard roadside posts with GPS/GPRS modules, enabling continuous high-precision traffic counts for up to 14 days with automatic GPS-annotated daily data transmission. Deployed as the national standard across 8 German Federal States.
• Verkehrssicherheitsscreening (Traffic Safety Screening) Internet-based map platform integrating accident data, road geometry, traffic volumes, speeds, and road condition data, with cascading authorization managed by state ministries, 100m road segment fact sheets of ~600 data points each, and an online prioritization tool for ranking critical road sections.
• Videoerhebungen (Video Surveys) Video-based traffic surveys using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) for origin-destination studies, travel time measurement, and route choice analysis, deployed in projects such as the Bavaria long-distance traffic study (227+ million vehicle datasets compared).
• WDM - Webbasiertes VerkehrsDatenManagement (Web-based Traffic Data Management) Web-based map platform for centralized storage, management, and map-based presentation and analysis of traffic and structural data, featuring password protection, hierarchical user rights management, counting location administration, and document attachment.
• HRDTV-Pro PC-based evaluation program for calculating Annual Average Daily Traffic (DTV/AADT) and other traffic characteristics from short-term manual counts using standard time-variation curves.
• DIANA Automatic evaluation system for Traffic Monitoring data enabling nearly automatic process monitoring and analysis of operational special cases from multiple German Federal States.
• DAUZ Software program for processing and evaluation of data from permanent counting stations (automatic classifiers), used alongside PTV-TCM Traffic Count Management.
• Fahrzeug-Rückhaltesysteme (Vehicle Restraint Systems) Support services for type approval processing, testing, and evaluation of vehicle restraint systems (steel crash barriers and concrete protection walls) for BASt.
• Verkehrsplanung (Traffic Planning) Traffic planning services using PTV-VISUM including traffic analysis, forecasts, variant calculations, and expert representation in planning approval procedures.
• Forschung (Research) Research and development projects for BASt, federal and state ministries, including traffic surveys, seatbelt usage studies, child restraint system surveys, and traffic safety investigations.
• Schulungen (Training Courses) Training services for Traffic Monitoring, the Traffic Safety Screening platform, and Vehicle Restraint Systems handling, conducted both in-house and on customer premises.

Quantifiable outcome

• Traffic Monitoring certified by BASt according to TLS, delivering data quality equivalent to permanent automatic classifier detectors
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• City of Aachen / Climate Neutral Aachen 2030minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2024DTV-Verkehrsconsult is a framework partner for the Aachen Climate City Contract, part of the EU Mission '100 climate-neutral and smart cities'. The company presented its climate protection approaches and the Pascalstraße car-sharing scheme (PasCar) at the 6th ECSM symposium.
• Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt) – Federal Highway Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2004BASt is the primary research partner for DTV-Verkehrsconsult. The company has completed multiple R&D projects for BASt, including the nationwide road traffic census evaluation (2005), Traffic Monitoring certification, video survey data protection compliance (2013), smartphone usage surveys, and seatbelt/child restraint system surveys. BASt commissioned DTV-Verkehrsconsult to assist with processing type approval documents for vehicle restraint systems.
• ASFiNAG (Austria)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2004ASFiNAG is the operator of Austria's entire autobahn and motorway network. DTV-Verkehrsconsult has been responsible for evaluating the ASFiNAG permanent counting network since 2004, continuously winning all related tenders. Approximately 240 counting sites are processed monthly with plausibility checking and error value replacement.
• Land Baden-Württemberg (Federal State of Baden-Württemberg)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJointly developed the Traffic Monitoring counting standard with Baden-Württemberg, which became the nationwide German standard. The state was the first to implement the system across its road network. DTV-Verkehrsconsult also developed the Traffic Safety Screening platform for Baden-Württemberg's Traffic Ministry.
• RTB GmbH & Co. KGcoreTechnology or IntegrationRTB GmbH & Co. KG manufactures the side-radar counting devices used in the Traffic Monitoring system. Their devices were tested and certified by BASt according to TLS standards. DTV-Verkehrsconsult has been a key development partner in specifying and testing these devices for traffic monitoring applications.
• RWTH Aachen UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDTV-Verkehrsconsult is supported by student assistants from RWTH Aachen University. The company's founders earned their doctorates at RWTH (Institute of Urban and Transportation Planning / Institute of Highway Engineering). Student theses are supervised on traffic engineering topics.
• FH Aachen University of Applied SciencesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFH Aachen provides student assistants and research collaboration support to DTV-Verkehrsconsult.
• Landesbetrieb Straßenbau und Verkehr Schleswig-HolsteincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchleswig-Holstein's state road administration commissioned a comprehensive WDM (Web-based Traffic Data Management) platform from DTV-Verkehrsconsult, featuring different user rights and integration of various survey types for the entire road construction administration.
• Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (FGSV)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDTV-Verkehrsconsult's management is actively involved in various FGSV working committees and working groups. The company has contributed to multiple FGSV guidelines including RPS 2009, EVE 2012, ZTV FRS R1, HBS 2015, and RWS.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Iteris: US-based smart mobility infrastructure and traffic analytics company serving state DOTs and municipalities with traffic data, software, and consulting. Comparable in traffic data analytics domain but at significantly larger scale and with a broader product portfolio.
• SWARCO: Austrian-headquartered global traffic technology company offering road marking, signaling, parking, and traffic management solutions. Overlaps with DTV in traffic monitoring field equipment and intelligent transportation systems, but operates at significantly larger scale with a much broader portfolio.
• Kapsch TrafficCom: Austrian-headquartered global provider of tolling, traffic management, and connected vehicle solutions. Adjacent to DTV in road user charging and ITS, though operating at much larger scale and serving national-level concessions rather than municipal traffic-data consulting.
• TomTom: Dutch location technology company providing traffic data and mapping services derived from probe and connected vehicle sources. Comparable in the traffic data domain but competes from a fundamentally different angle — large-scale platform data rather than consultancy-led measurement and analysis.
• INRIX: US-based global traffic data and analytics platform serving road authorities and enterprises with probe-data-derived traffic intelligence. Comparable in the traffic data domain but operates a fundamentally different business model (data platform vs. consulting).

Direct peers

• PTV Group: Karlsruhe-based transportation planning software and consulting firm providing PTV-VISUM, PTV-VISEM, and PTV-TCM that DTV itself uses. Directly comparable in traffic planning, modeling, and consulting services in the DACH market, while also operating as a software vendor to the same client base.
• Gevas Humberg & Partner: Munich-based German traffic engineering consultancy offering traffic data collection, road safety analysis, and traffic planning services. Directly comparable in scope and customer base (German road authorities and municipalities).
• SSP Consult: Stuttgart-based German transportation planning and traffic engineering consultancy. Comparable in delivering traffic studies, modeling, and consulting services to public-sector clients in Germany.
• Miovision: Canadian traffic video analytics company providing camera-based vehicle detection and traffic data platforms. DTV-Verkehrsconsult is a current technology user of Miovision cameras and operates in the same traffic video analytics and data collection domain.
• Durth Roos Consulting: German engineering consultancy specializing in traffic data collection, traffic counts, and road safety analysis. Closely comparable niche player with similar service offerings in the German market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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