Urban Engines | 731 followers on LinkedIn. Urban Engines improves urban mobility — making it easier to get where you’re going — by using information from the billions of trips that people and vehicles make each day. Our mapping, visualization, reporting, and analytics platform creates actionable insights — for companies, cities, and commuters — from the increasing amounts of movement data generated by the Internet of Moving Things. Founded in 2012 by Narayanan Shivakumar and Balaji Prabhakar, Urban Engines is comprised of former Googlers and Stanford and Cal PhDs.