Artificial intelligence and the analysis of large volumes of data can help detect risky situations on roads before accidents occur. This is the aim of Road4Safe, a European project coordinated by the GeoTech group at the University of Vigo, part of CINTECX, which brings together 18 partners from 12 countries.<\/p>\n
The initiative will develop a digital twin of traffic and road infrastructure. This virtual replica will integrate information from various sources, such as connected vehicles, sensors, cameras, weather data and historical accident records, to identify risk points and generate predictions that will help improve road safety.<\/p>\n
The project will pay particular attention to secondary roads and transitional sections, such as motorway slip roads and exits or tunnels, where differences in speed and road characteristics can increase the risk of accidents. As explained by the principal investigator, Professor Pedro Arias, the aim is to move from a reactive approach to a preventive one, capable of anticipating dangerous situations and facilitating decision-making.<\/p>\n
A digital twin and two real drivers<\/strong><\/p>\n The technology will be tested in two scenarios. The first will be located in Austria, in the Rustenfeld Tunnel, south of Vienna, where critical situations relating to traffic flow and access points will be analysed. The second will take place on the Bizkaia Connected Corridor, a network of over 1,200 kilometres of roads where risk prediction at network level will be assessed.<\/p>\n Artificial intelligence will enable the integration and processing of data from different sources, the detection of risk patterns, and the proposal of measures to improve safety, such as speed adjustments, access control or infrastructure improvements. Efforts will also be made to ensure that predictions and recommendations are reliable, explainable and compliant with European regulations.<\/p>\n GeoTech\u2019s work in Road4Safe<\/strong><\/p>\n As well as coordinating the consortium, the GeoTech group is leading the workstream focused on the collection, harmonisation and sharing of the data to be used by the project\u2019s models. Its work includes developing artificial intelligence tools to extract relevant information about road characteristics from images, 3D point clouds obtained using LiDAR technology, and other data from sensors and vehicles.<\/p>\n Road4Safe has held its kick-off meeting in Vigo and is funded by the Horizon Europe programme. The project will run for 42 months and has a budget of over five million euros, of which around 862,000 euros will go to the University of Vigo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CINTECX\u2019s GeoTech group is coordinating an international consortium of 18 partners that will create a digital twin of the roads and validate the technology in two real-world pilot projects in Austria and Bizkaia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":265460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duvi-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265468,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265464\/revisions\/265468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}