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Evolutionary Solutions for Realising a Holistic Safe System Approach for All Road Users

Project description

A holistic approach to safer road transport systems

The EU’s 2021-2030 road safety policy marks a crucial step towards achieving zero fatalities in road transport by 2050. To meet this ambitious goal, the EU-funded EvoRoads project emerges as a pioneering initiative. Specifically, it uses innovative models, tools, and services to revolutionise safety assessment frameworks. Its holistic approach enables dynamic monitoring of cyber-physical infrastructures and risk warnings. By defining safety criteria and quantification methodologies, EvoRoads covers the entire spectrum of the Safe System approach, which aims to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on roadways. The project features advanced AI-driven analytics, a connectivity platform, and low-cost smart signs. With validation across seven locations in Europe, EvoRoads promises transformative impacts.

Objective

The successful implementation of EU’s 2021-2030 road safety policy is a milestone towards the target of zero fatalities in road transport by 2050 and requires a clear understanding of criteria that influence safety performance, development of solutions that promote safety for all road users, the modernisation of existing infrastructure monitoring approaches and the adoption of methodologies that take into account complex user behaviours. EvoRoads aims to accelerate the attainment of the Vision Zero EU goal through a holistic framework of innovative models, tools and services that enable data-driven evolution of safety assessment frameworks, facilitate dynamic monitoring of cyber-physical infrastructures and promote the proactive warning for safety risks in complex environments. At the operational level, EvoRoads defines safety criteria and KPIs quantification methodologies covering the entire spectrum of the “Safe System” approach and develops a connectivity platform where transport infrastructure assets are digitalised and safety assessment services are functioning in a harmonious way. Advanced AI-driven analytics for fusing infrastructure monitoring data at different geospatial resolutions, on-the-edge sensory and communication technologies for local infrastructure monitoring, a dynamic evaluation of infrastructure readiness solution in supporting the operation of CCAM, a road maintenance diagnosis and prognosis tool, and low-cost smart signs with integrated electronics and embedded components for elicting desirable user behaviours are developed. The approach is validated at 7 locations in Spain, Italy, Latvia and Romania, addressing different types of infrastructure settings and road users in urban and rural environments. Interaction with existing programmes on roadmapping and recommendations at national, EU and global level will be promoted, allowing a multiplication effect of project’s results.

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01

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Coordinator

EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT TELEMATICS IMPLEMENTATION COORDINATION ORGANISATION - INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS & SERVICES EUROPE
Net EU contribution

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€ 609 250,00
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AVENUE LOUISE 523
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
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€ 609 250,00

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