# Urban Engines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/urban-engines/  
**Website:** https://www.urbanengines.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Urban Engines Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Transportation, Urban Mobility, Data Analytics, Mapping, Logistics, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/urban-engines/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.