TomTom triumphs: Double award win in Just Auto Excellence Awards

Just Auto, a leading automotive news platform, awarded TomTom in two key categories at the 2024 Just Auto Excellence Awards: the Business Expansion Award for its Traffic Service and the Innovation Award for its Orbis Maps.

The Business Expansion Award celebrates companies showing significant growth through new business, market expansion or new product development. This year, the award recognized TomTom Traffic, a groundbreaking service that provides real-time traffic insights to millions of city planners, traffic authorities and drivers worldwide, helping reduce congestion and enhance road safety.

The Innovation Award is given to companies that introduce original concepts with a lasting impact on their industry, covering research, development and business practices. It focuses on projects, services and concepts that demonstrate new products, features and marketing strategies. TomTom Orbis Maps was honored with this award for establishing an open standard for digital mapping, setting a new benchmark in the location tech industry. This innovation has also earned TomTom the Global Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan.

Last year, German manufacturer Daimler Trucks won the Business Expansion and Innovation awards for its work on digital engineering platforms, R&D and electric vehicles. The company had partnered with Siemens Digital Industries Software to develop a digital engineering platform for commercial vehicle innovation, an initiative that included the production of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic, an electric truck designed for urban waste disposal.

Leading the future of traffic

For over three decades, TomTom has been at the forefront of location technology innovation. Today, one in five vehicles globally relies on TomTom’s traffic data, collected from over 600 million connected devices. This allows TomTom Traffic to provide real-time, accurate insights into traffic conditions, helping drivers avoid congestion and plan efficient routes.

TomTom offers a detailed view of traffic flows, incidents and closures by analyzing data from connected devices. This precision has made TomTom Traffic essential for drivers and traffic authorities, enabling smoother, faster and less stressful journeys.

TomTom’s collaborations with Miovision and BMW Motorrad highlight its technology’s role in enhancing traffic analytics and navigation. Robert Hein, Head of ConnectedRide at BMW Motorrad, praised TomTom’s services for delivering real-time traffic updates and the latest maps, significantly improving the riding experience. TomTom’s data is also central to Miovision’s traffic signal prediction solutions and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems. It helps cities optimize traffic flow and reduce data collection times.

Companies like Flow Labs and StreetLight leverage TomTom’s insights to help traffic managers make roads safer and more efficient. During the Paris Olympics, TomTom Traffic played a crucial role in managing the traffic flow. The Direction des Routes d'Île-de-France (DiRIF), the Paris region highway authority, used a sophisticated traffic data platform from PTV Group powered by TomTom’s live and historic traffic data to effectively manage the road networks and keep traffic flowing.

Shaping the future of maps

While lower-level driver assistance systems (ADAS) can function without maps, advanced systems (Level 3 and above) require detailed, high-quality maps for optimal operation. This is where TomTom Orbis Maps shines. Built from billions of data points, it delivers the most intelligent map available, offering real-time updates to drivers, car manufacturers and businesses alike.

TomTom Orbis Maps isn’t just changing how people get from point A to point B; it’s also helping businesses, urban planners and even emergency services make smarter decisions. To make maps easier to update, TomTom provides real-time collaboration and data sharing capabilities. Now covering 86 million kilometers across 235 countries and territories, TomTom Orbis Maps is revolutionizing digital mapping, with over 30 car brands and 14 million vehicles using TomTom’s ADAS map content daily.

Expanding horizons

TomTom champions open map data to improve navigation and location-based services, so developers and companies can create accurate, customized location-based apps. Through partnerships with AWS, Meta and Microsoft, TomTom is driving the creation of open, reliable and commercially scalable map data through the Overture Maps Foundation.

The Just Auto awards recognize TomTom’s accomplishments and underscore the company’s commitment to making mobility safer, smarter, and more efficient for everyone.