Frost & Sullivan Awards Imagry with Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition in the Global Autonomous Bus Industry for 2026

The report credits Imagry’s mapless, camera-based software that brings autonomous driving to the buses that operators already run

Imagry, the global leader in autonomous public transport, today announced that Frost & Sullivan has named it the recipient of the 2026 Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition in the global autonomous bus industry. The recognition is Imagry’s third from Frost & Sullivan, following its 2023 Enabling Technology Leadership Award and 2025 Global Customer Value Leadership Award.

Imagry Autonomous Bus Solutions Address Bus Driver Shortages

In markets facing bus driver shortages, Frost & Sullivan found that many transit networks are cutting service instead of expanding it. Imagry provides the platform to change that, with the report finding that the return-on-investment case for Imagry’s software “holds even in markets with severe driver shortages,” because it lets operators run more services, more often, without adding a proportional number of drivers.

Flexibility in Vehicle Categories Optimizes Suitability for Different Global Markets

“Imagry is the only autonomous driving software built to run across all three public-transit vehicle categories: M1 sedans, M2 vans, and M3 buses, on a single, category-agnostic platform, and it uses that flexibility to propose a different vehicle mix for each region’s specific mobility problem rather than a single global product,” said Shyam Sundar, Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan.

Advanced AI Technology Ensures Faster, More Cost-Effective Deployment

The report points to Imagry’s core engineering approach as the key to its accelerating partnerships with transport providers. Imagry believes that public transit doesn’t need the sensor stack most of the autonomous vehicle industry treats as standard, and can rely on cameras rather than LiDAR or radar, with eight cameras giving the system a 360-degree view out to 300 meters. The cameras feed neural networks that learn to drive the way a human does, but react approximately three times faster than a skilled human driver. Because the system needs no pre-built maps, deployment is faster and more cost-effective than solutions that require HD maps. As a result, operators can quickly and easily add autonomous buses to their existing routes and expand their services to increase their revenues as well as address new use cases. The Imagry solution provides the kind of flexibility mass transit needs to grow.

Imagry’s innovative, flexible, and cost-effective autonomous driving solutions for public transportation earn the prestigious 2026 Global Autonomous Bus Enabling Technology Leadership award from Frost & Sullivan.

Autonomous Buses, Not Robotaxis, Deliver the Greatest Mobility Benefit

“Self-driving technology delivers the greatest public benefit when it moves large numbers of people, and that means buses,” said Eran Ofir, CEO of Imagry. “While robotaxis add more cars to already congested streets, and primarily serve individual passengers, a single autonomous bus can carry 20 to 40 passengers on routes cities already operate. Because our technology is camera-based and requires no pre-mapping, the same software can be deployed on a hospital campus, an airport shuttle, or in a city center anywhere in the world, and scale from a single route to an entire network. Frost & Sullivan’s recognition reinforces the validity of the path we chose.”

Imagry Offers a Lower Cost Base than Other Autonomous Driving Systems

For operators, Frost & Sullivan found that Imagry offers a lower cost base than infrastructure-heavy autonomous driving systems on which competitors rely. By eliminating the need for LiDAR and HD maps, operators can avoid both significant upfront hardware costs and the recurring expense of keeping city-scale maps accurate and updated. Frost & Sullivan also highlighted the lower cost and complexity of preparing buses for autonomous operation. In a Toyota Tsusho pilot, the manufacturer was able to easily install Imagry’s system directly into its own production line, instead of retrofitting it afterward.

Additional Global Expansion Planned for 2027

With deployments in Germany, Japan and Israel, and partnerships spanning USA, Europe, and Japan, Imagry plans to build on this recognition as it expands its autonomous driving software to more buses, routes, and cities worldwide in 2027.

Frost & Sullivan’s report can be read in full here.