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, a leader in vision artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, has been recognized by TIME Magazine as one of 

America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024

. Hayden AI’s patented vision AI platform has been deployed in several major U.S. metropolitan cities. Hayden AI and is currently a market leader in mobile automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement.

“Being named among the nation’s green technology leaders by TIME Magazine highlights Hayden AI’s accomplishments in making public transit more environmentally friendly,” said Chris Carson, CEO and co-founder of Hayden AI. “Our technology is helping decrease the carbon emissions of public transit vehicles as well as making public transit more accessible and reliable, ultimately reducing the numbers of vehicles on the road, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

The ranking lists the top 250 U.S. companies focused on sustainability with products or services that positively impact the environment. Hayden AI was one of only nine California-based companies included within the data analytics category.

In the United States, transportation is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In buses installed with Hayden AI equipment studies have shown increased bus speeds of up to 40% on some routes, reducing idling time and decreasing the buses’ carbon emissions. Last year, Hayden AI also launched an online tool to highlight how automated enforcement keeps bus lanes clear of illegally parked vehicles, reducing emissions by increasing bus speeds and keeping buses on schedule.

Additionally, increased speeds, reliability and accessibility can lead to a greater number of public transit users, which is one of the most effective ways to reduce the number of vehicles on the road and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

At Hayden AI, we’re pioneering real world problem solving powered by AI and machine learning. From bus lane and bus stop enforcement to digital twin modeling, data analysis and more, our clients use our mobile perception system to speed up transit, make streets safer, and create a more sustainable future. Learn more at 

Hayden AI Recognized by TIME Magazine for Green Technology

This week marks another bus route in New York City equipped with Hayden AI’s Automated Bus Lane Enforcement platform – and makes Hayden AI the largest provider of automated bus lane enforcement camera systems in the United States.

Our Automated Bus Lane Enforcement platform went live on another MTA bus route this week: the S79 in Staten Island. This is the second of 

 where Hayden AI’s patented bus lane enforcement technology will be deployed between now and the end of year.


This launch also makes Hayden AI the largest provider of automated bus lane enforcement camera systems in the United States, with 152 camera systems (and growing by the day) now deployed in New York City. Our contract with the MTA will result in at least 300 camera systems installed and activated by the end of 2022 with another 200 in early 2023.


Our bus lane enforcement platform automatically detects and identifies illegal parking in bus lanes, helping New York City’s MTA get transit riders to their destinations faster and safer by keeping bus lanes clear for buses.

2 down, 9 to go: NYC's S79 bus now enforced with Hayden AI

-- This week’s expansion of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) to the Q44 bus route will feature the first deployments of Hayden AI’s patented perception systems. The activation of the Q44-SBS route marks the first of the 9 bus routes to be activated for ABLE by the end of this year.

Over the course of the next few months, Hayden AI, a global leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, will install as many as 500 interior mounted automated bus lane enforcement camera systems for the MTA

“Everyone at Hayden AI is excited to see our AIoT powered camera systems in action on the Q44,” said Hayden AI CEO Chris Carson. “The Q44 is a critically important connector, providing access to jobs and essential services for thousands of riders everyday. We’re proud to help the MTA improve service on this route with automated bus lane enforcement.”

ABLE is a proven and effective tool, helping to increase compliance with dedicated bus lane stopping and parking restrictions. MTA bus routes with ABLE have seen improvements in bus speed and reliability leading to increased ridership.

“We look forward to helping make buses on the Q44 route move faster, having a positive impact on the tens of thousands of passengers commuting on this route” said Hayden AI Executive VP Vaibhav Ghadiok. “We deeply value our partnership with the MTA and are committed to delivering AI-powered data and insights to improve the ridership experience of New York’s transit system.

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NEC Australia, a leading provider of smart transport technology solutions and Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and spatial analytics, announced today a partnership to deliver a seamless enforcement technology platform designed to improve road safety, sustainability and public transport reliability and accessibility to customers in Australia and New Zealand.

The partnership will combine NEC Australia’s extensive experience in providing technology solutions to transport operators with Hayden AI’s automated bus lane, bus stop, cycle lane, and double-parking enforcement platform.

Keeping dedicated transit zones and cycle lanes clear of parking violations and reducing double parking that blocks roadways is critical to improving transportation safety, accessibility, efficiency, and sustainability. Together, NEC Australia and Hayden AI seek to help transport operators bring these benefits to cities across Oceania.

“Partnering with a company that has extensive experience bringing innovative technology to transport operators is really exciting for us,” said Chris Carson, CEO and founder of Hayden AI.

“Our vision AI platform helps cities across the United States solve once-unsolvable problems, like keeping bus lanes and cycle lanes clear of vehicles parking illegally. We’re eager to help transport authorities in Australia and New Zealand improve road safety, bus transport reliability, and accessibility for riders – and reduce emissions in the process.”

NEC’s Head of Smart Transport ANZ + Global Centre of Excellence Lead Mark Messenger said the Hayden AI announcement is an exciting and key partnership for NEC.

“Our partnership with Hayden AI aligns strongly with NEC’s wider strategy in leveraging AI to develop solutions for our customers to help them provide safer, more efficient and more reliable services. This groundbreaking technology has already been implemented in a number of locations throughout America and internationally, most recently in buses in New York City, resulting in a 5% increase in bus lane speeds, a 20% reduction in collisions, and an estimated 5% to 10% decrease in emissions on average.

“NEC has invested heavily in its own right to develop solutions leveraging AI technology as part of its mobility platform as well as working with best in breed solutions providers such as Hayden AI, who are leaders in bus lane and parking enforcement solutions globally to bring leading solutions to our customers.”

NEC Australia provides technology and expertise to transport authorities globally, with solutions ranging from smart ticketing to real-time mapping. Hayden AI’s mobile perception platform is installed on hundreds of transit buses in cities across the globe to improve road safety, transit reliability, and transportation accessibility for people with disabilities.

NEC Australia Partners with Hayden AI to facilitate automated bus lane and bus stop enforcement in Australia and New Zealand

 – Hayden AI Technologies, Inc (“Hayden AI”), the leader in vision AI solutions for smart cities, today announced $90 million in new growth equity financing. The Series C round was led by The Rise Fund, the multi-sector strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, and was supported by existing investors such as the Drawdown Fund and Autotech Ventures, among others. This investment will accelerate the company’s research, development and growth.

The funding comes as Hayden AI has expanded its market leadership and customer base both domestically and internationally in the $748 billion smart city market. Hayden AI’s vision AI platform leverages geospatial data collection sensor systems to provide comprehensive smart city intelligence and is trusted by some of the nation’s largest cities and transit agencies, including New York’s MTA, Washington DC’s Metro, Los Angeles Metro, the East Bay’s AC Transit, and others, to detect and enforce parking and moving violations that obstruct public transportation and road safety. Hayden AI’s platform can be mounted on virtually any vehicle type – providing a level of insight and situational awareness that cities can use to make better decisions to achieve both their operational and sustainability goals.

The Rise Funds invest in companies that drive environmental and social impact alongside strong business returns. In addition to enforcing parking and moving violations, Hayden AI’s vision AI platform can detect and predict traffic congestion, monitor city assets, and optimize transportation networks, which helps cities improve public safety, sustainability, and efficiency.

“With The Rise Fund, we can develop our platform into a true urban operating system – processing data and generating actionable insights that help cities become more livable for everyone,” said Chris Carson, founder and CEO of Hayden AI. “This new financing lets us invest in long-term technology development to explore new applications for our platform. TPG’s The Rise Fund has a long track record of successfully scaling socially impactful companies across the technology and climate sectors and we are thrilled to partner with them to continue to empower cities to transform sustainability, road safety, and accessibility.”

“Large cities have a dual mandate of increasing operational performance and safety of their public transit systems while improving their energy efficiency,” said Steve Ellis, a Managing Partner of The Rise Funds. “Hayden AI’s proprietary technology offers a solution that sits at the intersection of accessibility, safety, and sustainability and is well aligned with The Rise Fund’s pursuit of rapidly growing businesses that deliver social and environmental impact at scale. Leveraging Hayden AI’s industry-leading accuracy and adaptability, we look forward to building on their success with the largest US cities to scale their technology into additional use-cases and new cities domestically and internationally.”

In New York City, automated camera enforcement has resulted in 5% faster buses along enforced routes and 20% fewer vehicle collisions. Additionally, the MTA estimates that automated camera enforcement has contributed to a 5% to 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The MTA recently announced that the program is being expanded to bus stop and double parking enforcement.

Hayden AI’s technology has not only helped cities realize meaningful gains in safety and efficiency, but it has also earned the company accolades, including recognition on the GovTech100 list for four consecutive years, and recognition by TIME Magazine as one of America’s Top GreenTech Companies of 2024.

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 At Hayden AI, we’re transforming how cities leverage infrastructure with AI. Our market-leading vision AI platform utilizes geospatial data collection sensor systems to create an urban operating system, giving cities actionable insights and situational awareness to improve sustainability, traffic safety, and accessibility. Cities across the globe use Hayden AI’s platform to make urban life more livable for everyone. Learn more at 

 The Rise Funds are a core pillar of TPG Rise, TPG's global impact investing platform. Founded in 2016 by TPG in partnership with Bono and Jeff Skoll, The Rise Funds invest behind impact entrepreneurs and growth-stage, high potential, mission-driven companies that are focused on achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The Rise Funds deliver capabilities and expertise across a wide variety of sectors and countries at scale, focusing on opportunities in climate and conservation, education, food and agriculture, financial inclusion, healthcare, and impact services.


With approximately $19 billion in assets across The Rise Funds, TPG Rise Climate, and the Evercare Health Fund, the TPG Rise platform is one of the world's largest private markets impact investing platforms committed to achieving measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns.



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Hayden AI Raises $90 Million in Series C Led by TPG’s The Rise Fund

 – Hayden AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics, has won €100,000 from the Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility competition to deploy Hayden AI’s mobile perception technology on public transport buses in Barcelona for a six-month pilot. This competitive award program is hosted by the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat, Fira de Barcelona, and Tomorrow.Mobility.

This award marks Hayden AI’s largest international deployment. Hayden AI’s industry-leading mobile perception platform detects parking and moving violations in bus stops and bus lanes that slow down and obstruct public transport, and is used by major transport authorities in North America to improve the efficiency, safety, sustainability, and accessibility of their bus networks.

“Winning this competition to bring our mobile perception platform to Barcelona – a city known across the globe for leading urban mobility and sustainability forward – is incredibly exciting for us,” said Chris Carson, CEO and founder of Hayden AI. “Transport authorities partner with Hayden AI because our technology helps them deliver safer, more reliable, accessible bus service, and encourages more people to ride public transport in the process. We’re honored to work with Barcelona on testing our technology in this incredible city. ”

Hayden AI is the United States market leader in mobile automated bus lane enforcement and bus stop enforcement, with hundreds of bus-mounted, AI-powered camera systems installed on transit buses across the country. This technology is proven to reduce vehicle collisions, improve bus on-time performance, and help ensure that bus stops are accessible to people with disabilities.

In addition to Barcelona, Hayden AI is launching an automated bus stop enforcement pilot in Braga (Portugal) funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)’s Transatlantic AI award.

As a Barcelona Innova Lab Mobility winner, Hayden AI will exhibit its technology at the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress in Barcelona from 5 - 7 November.

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