Miovision launches Mateo AI agent for traffic engineering
Miovision has launched Mateo, a generative AI agent for traffic engineering, integrated into its Miovision One platform.
The product targets traffic departments that still rely on manual analysis across fragmented systems. Miovision says it can cut some investigation work by up to 95 per cent.
Mateo is designed to let transport teams query network data in natural language and combine information from raw telemetry, hardware health, and safety metrics. It can produce charts, maps, and summaries from multiple data sources, along with an audit trail showing the original sources behind its answers.
Traffic agencies are under pressure to process growing volumes of network data while managing congestion, safety concerns, and limited staff time. Miovision cited a National Cooperative Highway Research Program study that found 78 per cent of traffic professionals said modern performance measures take too much time to analyse and manage.
The software is built specifically for traffic engineering workflows rather than adapted from a general-purpose chatbot. It is also embedded directly within the operational tools that traffic teams already use, rather than offered through a separate interface.
This reflects a broader shift in artificial intelligence from general consumer chat tools to software tailored for specific industries and tasks. In public infrastructure, where decisions can affect safety and public spending, suppliers are increasingly focusing on traceability and source attribution as agencies seek to understand how outputs are produced.
"Traffic professionals have long spent hours sifting through mountains of data when they'd prefer to be tackling real mobility challenges," said Kurtis McBride, Chief Executive Officer of Miovision. "The Miovision GenAI Agent is the next step in our mission to transform ordinary intersections into intelligent systems that save time and empower traffic experts to work more proactively."
Miovision says the software uses a reasoning engine based on a large language model, along with agentic tools, to perform multi-step retrieval, reasoning, and data analysis. The aim is to answer detailed questions using a city's own network data while aligning with existing traffic engineering standards.
According to Miovision, this can shorten work that previously took days or weeks, such as investigating citizen complaints or diagnosing network alerts. The software is intended to identify root causes across a traffic network through conversational prompts rather than manual cross-checking between applications.
"The technical breakthrough with the Miovision GenAI Agent lies in its ability to execute multi-step retrieval, reasoning, and data analysis to answer complex questions based on a city's unique network data while following established traffic engineering standards. This is what truly separates it from general-purpose GenAI and basic chatbots," said Rogerson. "It also creates answers with an audit trail citing original data sources, ensuring high confidence in how responses were produced."
Beta Testing
The City of Coquitlam was one of the main beta partners involved in refining the system through real-world testing. Feedback from customers and partners helped shape the product before its wider release to traffic departments.
Municipal users are likely to weigh claims of time savings against questions of reliability, procurement, and integration with existing systems. Source citations and audit trails may be especially important for public sector buyers who need to justify operational decisions and spending.
"At its most fundamental level, MATEO has saved us countless hours of complex data retrieval and analysis by leveraging generative AI and Miovision One. This efficiency alone makes the platform worthwhile, but its true value is in our ability to respond faster to complex queries and performance deficiencies. By synthesizing comprehensive results and insights in real time, it has become an indispensable tool for maintaining a reliable traffic network," said Bernard Tung, a representative from the City of Coquitlam.
Founded in 2005, Miovision says it serves more than 5,000 customers in over 68 countries. Mateo is the company's latest effort to expand beyond traffic data collection and analytics into software that helps agencies interpret and act on that information.