Waypoint Transit

TLDR; Waypoint is an AI city planner that generates infrastructure planning studies. American municipalities spend $50B/year on planning. With Waypoint, plans are completed faster and at lower cost, reducing project timelines from years to months.

Our Demo

The Problem

Cities in the US spend approximately $50B annually on planning, studies, and engineering designs. These reports can take as long as 4 years to complete, and they’re often done by consultants.

Studies are crucial first steps to securing state/federal funding and must happen before any construction can begin. They might look at where bus service needs improvement, which roads need bike lanes, or how to make school routes safer for kids walking to class.

Here's the thing - when you look at what these consultants actually do, you find civil engineers doing repetitive data entry, manipulation, and visualization. And despite cities nationwide conducting very similar studies, consulting firms don't seem to be getting any more efficient at producing them.

Our Solution

We're using AI to automate planning, starting with transportation consulting. We help cities build better infrastructure faster and at lower cost. We work with cities just like traditional consultants, but use AI to do the heavy lifting instead of manual work. It turns out our model produces better plans at 30% of the cost and in a fraction of the time.

Some work our AI city planner is doing today:

• Literature review that looks at thousands of documents to find relevant best practices and plans from other cities
• Data unification that combines satellite imagery, GIS mapping data, and Excel spreadsheets into a single source of truth
• Tables, charts, and interactive maps to visualize infrastructure and transportation data
• Recommendations that ensure compliance with municipal codes
• Report writing tailored to city government

Why We’re Working On This

We love cities and public transportation, but we're concerned about their future in the US. Cities urgently need new transportation infrastructure to address growing congestion and climate change. However, limited staff and budgets mean they're not moving fast enough. We believe AI can help by reducing costs and expanding cities' capacity to get things done.

Our Ask

If you work on transportation in a city government, transit agency, or DOT, we’d love to connect to potential customers or advisors! You can reach us at contact@waypointtransit.com.

Varun and Ryan are Stanford engineering grads who previously worked on AI at Microsoft and chip design at Apple.