The “IVORY” doctoral network, held its First Year Review Meeting from March 25–28, 2025, hosted by the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (FPZ) in Zagreb, Croatia.
The event brought together the 15 doctoral candidates, their academic supervisors, and industrial partners to reflect on the network’s first year of progress and outline future research directions in AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety.
The meeting included a formal review session with the European Commission, as well as interactive workshops and training sessions designed to strengthen collaboration between academia and industry partners, as outlined below:
- “Ethics in AI for Road Safety” (by TU Delft, for all doctoral candidates).
- “Human Factors in Road Safety” (by LAB and Hasselt University, for WP5 doctoral candidates).
- “Proactive Infrastructure Safety Management” (by iRAP and FPZ, for WP6 doctoral candidates).
About IVORY Project
IVORY – ‘AI for Vision Zero in Road Safety’ is an industrial doctorates network, aiming to develop a new framework for the integration of AI in road safety and create a new generation of leading researchers in the field, in order to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals target 3.6 (halving the number of traffic fatalities by 2030) and EC ‘Vision Zero’ strategy (eliminating traffic fatalities by 2050). IVORY consists of 4 academic and 8 non-academic beneficiaries, as well as 8 associated partners, joining from engineering, data science and ethics of technology disciplines from 10 countries. It will train 15 researchers on new responsible AI applications for road user assistance and infrastructure safety management, and will create a sustainable learning and networking platform.