Israeli firm Otonomo Technologies is helping Brazilian micromobility technology provider Tembici deploy resources and transportation stations in eleven Latin American cities.

As a provider of bike-sharing in Latin America, Tembici creates mobility products that help modernise and transform movement in urban spaces by delivering sustainable transportation alternatives for commuters.

Tembici is already using Otonomo data to increase operational efficiencies and RoI, and advance towards its goal of reinventing urban transportation. The first Otonomo intelligence-based project is focused on understanding rider patterns to innovate mobility services in São Paulo.

Based on these initial results, Tembici plans to expand the relationship by leveraging mobility analytics and insights to make strategic decisions about its growth. Otonomo can help Tembici make data-driven decisions about where to deploy transportation stations, choosing locations optimised for rider convenience and accessibility.

“We believe Otonomo is the missing piece that will enable us to take our technology and services to the next level,” said Loren Monteiro, CMO at Tembici. “Our spatial intelligence and urban planning teams are using Otonomo’s mobility intelligence to choose specific stations for relocation and expansion. This will help us deliver better and more tailored services to our rider community.”

Having access to a diverse and significant amount of commuter data from Otonomo enables Tembici to provide better services to its users. Actionable insights from Otonomo provide visibility into foot traffic, point of interest (PoI), population density, car traffic, proximity to cycle lanes and bus stations, and first and last-kilometre entry and exit of service use. These insights also provide Tembici with information regarding micro-mobility hotspots.

With more efficient station deployment, Tembici should be able to:

• provide users a viable green and safe transportation alternative in the right place and at the right time
• increase the likelihood of commuters and visitors choosing bikes and e-bikes for travel by delivering just-in-time mobility
• contribute to the reduction of vehicle congestion, carbon emissions and noise and air pollution generated by vehicles
• reduce navigation and parking times of multimodal users that drive to bike and e-bike stations
• increase convenience and user satisfaction, while reducing the mobility services’ environmental footprint

“Otonomo is excited to share mobility insights with Tembici,” said Ben Volkow, CEO of Otonomo. “We believe our insights will help Tembici in its mission to disrupt the Latin American mobility services market. Our partnership will enable it to quickly expand into new markets while increasing ridership and service delivery in current ones.”

Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets and more than 100 service providers spanning the transportation, mobility and automotive industries. The platform securely ingests more than four billion data points per day globally from over 50 million vehicles licensed on the platform and massive amounts of mobility demand data from multimodal sources, then reshapes and enriches them to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the mobility and transportation experience.

Tembici is responsible for more than 50 million trips with bicycles in the main Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Recife and Porto Alegre, in addition to Santiago in Chile and Buenos Aires in Argentina.