Open infrastructure.
Shared intelligence.
Vikasa is an open-source transportation data fabric that helps agencies, vendors, and developers turn fragmented roadway data into shared, trusted streams.
Roadway data should move freely enough to support safety, operations, planning, and innovation. Vikasa helps unlock signals, sensors, connected vehicle data, and other infrastructure information so it can be reused across systems instead of trapped in silos.
Open by Design
So agencies keep control of their data.
Built for Interoperability
So vendors plug into shared models instead of one-off integrations.
Ready for Real Use
From traffic operations to digital twins.
About Vikasa
Vikasa means growth, unfolding, and opening up.
Vikasa is an open-source transportation data fabric built to help public agencies and their partners free roadway data from closed systems. It creates a shared foundation for signals, sensors, connected vehicles, and analytics so more tools can work together with less friction.
Short Story
The idea is simple: open infrastructure should stay open. Agencies should be able to govern their own data, vendors should compete on value, and developers should have a clean path to build useful applications without starting over every time.
Built with a spirit of openness and progress, Vikasa is designed to help transportation data flow farther, cleaner, and with more purpose.
See the Vision Behind Vikasa
From vendor lock-in to open infrastructure.
This overview explains why transportation needs an open, interoperable data fabric, how OpenITS works, and how Vikasa helps agencies modernize without replacing the systems they already own.
How It Works
Transportation systems create valuable data every second, but too much of it is stuck inside disconnected devices, vendor platforms, and custom integrations.
Vikasa helps turn that fragmentation into a shared, governed data flow.
1. Gather the signals.
Vikasa brings together data from roadway devices, sensors, vehicles, and existing systems.
2. Create a shared language.
It organizes that data into clear, reusable models and event streams so different tools can understand the same information.
3. Power many uses.
Applications, analytics, dashboards, and operational tools can use the same trusted data without rebuilding integrations again and again.
Integrate once. Reuse everywhere. Let the data move.
Use Cases
Vikasa is built for practical transportation outcomes, not just technical theory.
Traffic Operations
Support signal operations, corridor management, and better day-to-day decision-making with cleaner shared data.
Roadway Safety
Help power low-latency safety use cases for pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and workers.
Freight and Truck Parking
Connect roadway and freight data to improve visibility, timing, and access to real-time information.
Planning and Digital Twins
Create a stronger data foundation for analysis, simulation, and digital representations of infrastructure.
Asset Management
Support long-term asset visibility with data that can be shared across operations, planning, and maintenance teams.
Agency Data Sharing
Make it easier to reuse information across departments, systems, and partners without starting from zero each time.
One shared foundation.
Many ways to put it to work.
Developers
Vikasa is meant to be open, practical, and buildable.
Developers, integrators, and technical partners should be able to understand the architecture, explore the shared models, and build against a transparent framework. The goal is not to lock people into a product. The goal is to make it easier to build useful transportation tools on a common foundation.
OpenITS
OpenITS is an open, vendor-neutral vocabulary for intelligent transportation systems: a shared telemetry and control model for the road network, in the spirit of what OpenConfig did for networking. The standard lives at open-its.org.
vikasa-infra
The platform underneath. It provisions and secures the NATS/JetStream backbone that telemetry flows through: clusters, streams, and accounts, plus mTLS, JWT and nkey identity, PKI, secrets, and the cabinet leaf install, all managed through GitOps.
vikasa-demo
The whole architecture on your laptop. A faithful, containerized miniature of a multi-agency deployment that runs the full cabinet to regional to central to DMZ JetStream chain and federates it into a shared ClickHouse and Grafana view, so you can watch the end-to-end data path before you deploy anything.
vikasa-collector
The edge collector that runs in the cabinet. It polls signal controllers, RSUs, and other field devices over their native protocols such as NTCIP, normalizes each reading into a clean domain model, and publishes versioned OpenITS payloads as CloudEvents to the cabinet's local NATS JetStream.
Bring your tools. Bring your ideas. Help the data flow.
Governance
Vikasa is being built as an open project with formal governance and clear stewardship.
The project is designed to support transparency, durability, and responsible participation as the ecosystem grows. Governance helps protect the openness of the core, clarify how decisions are made, and create a trusted structure for agencies, vendors, and contributors.
Open in spirit. Grounded in structure.
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Vikasa Voices Blog
Our blog explores the ideas behind technology, offering thoughtful perspectives on the forces transforming how we connect, move, and innovate.
What Banking's Open-Data Decade Proves About Transportation's Near-Future
In 2018, the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) — a non-profit, royalty-free standards body — was founded to ensure secure and transparent user-permissioned financial data sharing ... With thanks to the banks for their guidance, we now see that the transportation infrastructure space hasn't had its FDX moment just yet ...
The Open Road Ahead
Vikasa.io and the Case for an American Transportation Data Fabric - a strategic white paper on open-source interoperability, institutional reform, and the prerequisites for AV/EV leadership ...
Open Data and American Transportation Leadership
Roads generate the record of everything that happens on them — speed, failure, near-failure, signal timing, incident history. That record belongs to the public that generated it. For decades, it has lived inside proprietary systems, one vendor contract at a time, while the industry's attention stayed fixed on the layers above it: the software, and now the models ... Open, interoperable transportation data should be the default architecture for every publicly funded intelligent transportation and connected-vehicle program in this country. Not the exception ...
Vikasa Panthā — The Shared Path for Roadway Data and Investor Value
Panthā / Panthās (पन्था / पन्थास्) — “path, road, course, way, manner,” with a strong sense of journey or passage; nice for an investor-facing “route to value.”
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