Aimsun Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
On Friday 11th November, Aimsun celebrates 25 years in business. The company has grown from a university research spinoff to an international leader in mobility planning and transport management technology.
The term ‘digital twin’ is now well known and Aimsun is one of the companies that helped to popularize the concept of using modeling to test transportation schemes prior to implementation; the team was also at the vanguard of moving the concept of virtual testing to real-time, which now forms a large part of its business.
“The secret of Aimsun’s success is probably that it keeps innovating like a startup,” said CEO, Alex Torday. “We may be a quarter of a century old, but we haven’t lost that original agility. Mobility tech is having a ‘moment’ right now – it’s a highly dynamic industry that’s attracting some of the best minds out there, and I’m proud that Aimsun has proved it can match that level of energy and technical expertise.”
Right from its inception, Aimsun has been at the forefront of transport technology. The company has its origins in Barcelona in the late 80s, just as the city was poised to host the 1992 Olympic Games. A group of Catalanresearchers at the Polytechnic University Catalonia (known locally as the UPC) created microsimulation software to help reduce congestion and create a more fluid, navigable city during the Games. Seeing a clear demand for such a product, the team formally incorporated a few years later, in 1997.
Aimsun was initially an acronym that stood for “Advanced Interactive Microscopic Simulator for Urban and Non-Urban Networks” but has long since outgrown its origins, extending far beyond microscopic simulation to become the comprehensive framework of multi-tier solutions and services that we know today. The Aimsun team includes top-class transport modelers, data scientists and engineers to deliver its mobility solutions in over 100 countries worldwide.
“We’re not only celebrating our 25th birthday, but also our highest ever order intake in company history, for the second consecutive year,” said CFO Mathias Merta. “The demand for effective and efficient mobility solutions has never been higher.”
Contact info:
Name: Nadia Feddo, Global Head of Marketing
Organization: Aimsun
Address: Ronda de la Universitat 22B, Barcelona 08007
URL: https://www.aimsun.com/
Phone: +34 933 171 693
Aimsun is part of Yunex Traffic Group, a global leader in the field of intelligent traffic systems.
Yunex Traffic is a separately managed company of Atlantia strategic investment holding, and complements their asset portfolio of transport infrastructure concessions and digital service platforms.
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