Urban Engines

Urban Engines was a Silicon Valley urban-mobility analytics startup founded by Shiva Shivakumar and Balaji Prabhakar that built a Space/Time Engine for analyzing how people and objects move through cities, powering commuter routing and congestion insights for cities including Washington D.C., Sao Paulo, and Singapore. Backed by a16z and GV, the company was acquired by Google in September 2016 and is now defunct; it published no public API, developer portal, or client packages, and its former website is parked on Google infrastructure.

Urban Engines is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Transportation, Urban Mobility, Data Analytics, and Mapping.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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description: Urban Engines was a Silicon Valley urban-mobility analytics startup founded by Shiva Shivakumar and Balaji Prabhakar
  that built a Space/Time Engine for analyzing how people and objects move through cities, powering commuter routing and congestion
  insights for cities including Washington D.C., Sao Paulo, and Singapore. Backed by a16z and GV, the company was acquired
  by Google in September 2016 and is now defunct; it published no public API, developer portal, or client packages, and its
  former website is parked on Google infrastructure.
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