PTV Mobility (known mainly for planning software in Europe) and Econolite (traffic operations in North America) were brought together earlier this year under the brand name Umovity. Abbas Mohaddes (pictured), Umovity chairman of the board – who was then president and CEO of Econolite – recalls the early conversations about the move. “The first question was: what would that mean?” he says. “What if we bring together those two big, successful organisations from two continents and covered the A-Z for the industry – that’s when we really started getting goosebumps. Now we have a product we can promote globally – that resonated with everybody.”
