Berg Insight forecasts the public transport Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) market in Europe and North America will continue to expand through 2030, with electrification, passenger information demands and cybersecurity requirements shaping procurement priorities.
Public transport operators are being asked to do two things at once: run tighter, more reliable service while modernising fleets and digital infrastructure under heightened public scrutiny. That combination is pushing operational systems—vehicle tracking, dispatch, passenger information, ticketing and the interfaces between them—from “back office” tooling into mission-critical infrastructure.
New market research from Berg Insight argues that this shift is translating into sustained spending on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) on both sides of the Atlantic. The firm estimates that ITS deployed in public transport operations in Europe represented a market value of € 2.6 billion in 2025 and expects it to grow to € 3.3 billion by 2030, at a 5.3 percent CAGR. In North America, Berg Insight puts the market at € 1.2 billion in 2025, forecasting growth to € 1.6 billion by 2030, at a 5.0 percent CAGR.
What’s notable here is not a sudden spike, but the shape of the forecast: mid-single-digit growth that suggests ITS is now part of long-term capital planning rather than a discretionary upgrade. For OEMs, system integrators and connectivity providers, that typically means more multi-year frameworks, more integration work, and more emphasis on lifecycle management—because once these systems are embedded in daily operations, rip-and-replace becomes politically and operationally painful.
Electrification is quietly raising the bar for fleet systems
Berg Insight points to electrification as one of the investment drivers. That matters for ITS because electric buses and supporting depot operations tend to increase the number of operational constraints agencies must manage simultaneously: range planning, charging schedules, vehicle availability and service reliability all become more tightly coupled. Even without introducing any new product claims, the practical implication is clear: agencies that previously could treat ITS as a set of modular tools increasingly need coordinated systems and data flows that can support day-to-day decisions with fewer manual workarounds.
Alongside fleet changes, passenger expectations keep climbing. Berg Insight highlights the growing demand for convenience and accessible real-time information. In procurement terms, that often pulls ITS closer to the passenger-facing digital layer—real-time arrivals, service alerts and multimodal information—where system quality is judged immediately and publicly.
A crowded vendor field, but leadership is consolidating
Berg Insight’s vendor landscape underscores how mature—and competitive—this segment has become. The report identifies Canada-based Trapeze Group and Germany-based INIT as major providers with significant installed bases in both Europe and North America. It also flags structural changes around Trapeze, noting it is part of Modaxo Group and recently announced a rebrand and separation of its European businesses to ebblo, Grampian Solutions, Naviquate and Nexfeld.
In North America, Berg Insight names Clever Devices and Conduent as major actors, with Conduent described as an international provider of fare collection systems. Additional companies with notable market shares in North America include Cubic Transportation Systems, Avail Technologies and the Modaxo brand Vontas. In Europe, the report calls out national leaders such as EQUANS and RATP Smart Systems in France, IVU in the DACH markets, and Vix Technology, Flowbird and Ticketer in the UK. Other significant players listed include GMV, Indra and Grupo ETRA in Spain; Thales in France; Atron in Germany; FARA and Consat Telematics in Scandinavia; and Swarco and Kontron Transportation in Austria.
The presence of so many established suppliers—and the mix of pan-regional platforms and national specialists—helps explain why this announcement is distinct from typical “new product” news. The competitive battleground here is less about a single feature and more about integration depth, installed base dynamics and the ability to meet public-sector requirements across multiple subsystems, from fleet management to fare collection.
Cybersecurity is shifting from IT concern to service continuity issue
Another differentiator in Berg Insight’s findings is the explicit linkage between public transport ITS and cybersecurity risk. “Cybersecurity has been an important topic in the last years in both European and North America. This has resulted in new guidelines, standards and regulations being introduced to protect vital services”, said Caspar Jansson, Senior Analyst at Berg Insight.
Jansson also pointed to the attack surface created by interconnected systems: “Examples where vulnerabilities among tested public transport assets have enabled remote access to core systems have already been made public”. He concluded: “Interconnected systems require robust cybersecurity solutions to safeguard the operation of multimodal public transport ITS”.
The operational takeaway for the ecosystem is that cybersecurity is increasingly becoming part of the buying criteria for ITS programmes—not an add-on. For system integrators, that can translate into more security-by-design obligations across interfaces. For connectivity providers and platform operators, it raises expectations around secure device management, segmentation and monitoring practices that support safety and continuity requirements, not just IT policy compliance.
Put together, Berg Insight’s forecast paints public transport ITS as a steady-growth, integration-heavy market where electrification and passenger expectations raise functional requirements, while cybersecurity raises the bar on assurance. For IoT suppliers, the winners are unlikely to be those with the loudest feature checklist—rather those that can deliver resilient, interoperable systems that agencies can operate, secure and evolve over long asset lifecycles.
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