The EU Road Safety Cluster has published a new white paper titled “Advancing Road Safety Through Data: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Insights from EU Road Safety Projects”, bringing together insights from multiple EU-funded research and innovation initiatives working to improve road safety and automated mobility across Europe.

Our partnership projects PHOEBE (who coordinated the paper) and CAMBER are proud to be among the contributing projects.

The white paper examines persistent challenges in road safety data, including fragmentation, under-reporting, inconsistent definitions, limited coverage of vulnerable road users, and constraints related to data governance and privacy. Drawing on experiences from Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ projects, it highlights innovative solutions such as AI-based analytics, digital twin models and federated data spaces.

By consolidating lessons learned across projects, the white paper provides clear policy recommendations to strengthen data governance, improve interoperability, address under-reporting through data linkage, and accelerate the deployment of digital infrastructures that support safer, smarter, and more resilient mobility systems.

As a Horizon Europe initiative focused on safer urban and secondary roads, CAMBER brings specific expertise in integrating safety and maintenance systems, leveraging new-generation data sources, and developing digital twin frameworks tailored to secondary road environments. Through its pilots across Europe, CAMBER demonstrates how high-quality, interoperable and well-governed data can enable proactive and evidence-based decision-making aligned with the EU’s Vision Zero objectives.

PHOEBE is building on the strengths of iRAP’s road safety assessment tools and AIMSUN’s simulation and Artificial Intelligence to deliver harmonised, integrated and world-leading safety prediction tools that take account of gender, age and ability levels in providing for future mobility. Its data-driven insights, advanced predictive models, policy recommendations, cross-sector collaboration strategies, real-time alert systems, and focus on addressing inequality in road safety, are all integral to shaping future EU  initiatives.

Participation in this joint publication reinforces the projects’ commitment to ensuring that their research results contribute not only to pilot demonstrations, but also to broader European policy discussions and long-term road safety improvements.

EU Cluster members with the White Paper at the RTR2026 Conference in Brussels