The second EuroRAP’s Lunchtime seminar took place on 7 December 2021 and highlighted the research and innovation hot topic AiRAP. The seminar attracted 107 registrations from 41 different countries from all over the world. The topic of AiRAP was presented by Monica Olyslagers, Global Innovation Manager and Cities Specialist at International Road Assessment Programme’s (iRAP).
Monica first gave a snapshot of iRAP’s global activities and then focused on a new iRAP initiative called AiRAP. She explained that big data and artificial intelligence can play a lead role in building the social and economic business case for safer roads and creating the scale of change needed to save millions of lives. The accelerated and intelligent collection and coding of road attribute data has the potential to reduce the time and effort required to undertake road safety assessments, reduce the costs and improve accuracy. Together with the road safety Star Ratings and fatality and serious injury estimation models, iRAP’s AiRAP initiative has the potential to put this road safety data at the fingertips of road authorities, policymakers, investors and road users worldwide.
“Data is seen as one of the critical things to solve the road safety burden. With AiRAP not only will data come from different sources but will also vary in how it is collected and converted for road safety assessments”, Monica pointed out during the seminar. To support this initiative, iRAP has introduced a new AiRAP accreditation to ensure the quality, consistency and standardization of the data.
Monica presented also two AiRAP documents which will be approved and available shortly: Process for AiRAP attribute accreditation and AiRAP Data specification. The presentation was wrapped up with the AiRAP vision, followed by many interesting questions from the audience. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to us by email at icanhelp@eurorap.org or directly to Monica on monica.olyslagers@irap.org.
El recording of the EuroRAP Lunchtime seminar #2 is available AQUÍ (see the Chapter markers for Introduction, Monica’s presentation on AiRAP, Q&A). The PPT is available AQUÍ.
Nuestro próximo seminario en línea sobre 11th January 2022 at 1 pm CET is a national scheme spotlight event. Jure Kostanjšek, Secretary-General of the Automobile and Motorcycle Association of Slovenia (AMZS), and Klemen Filipič, accredited iRAP engineer at AMZS, will present the EuroRAP programme in Slovenia: a success story 2008–2021. Registrarse AQUÍ. Nos vemos allí.
La serie de seminarios ‘Lunchtime’ de EuroRAP ofrece información sobre los protocolos de EuroRAP a través de los seminarios en línea ‘RAP basics’, una visión de la investigación y la innovación en el marco de iRAP mediante nuestros seminarios ‘Hot topic’, e inspiración para los programas de EuroRAP a través de nuestros seminarios ’National schemes spotlight». Junto con un foro sobre programas nacionales, estos tres tipos de seminarios se presentarán de forma rotativa, lo que nos dará temas de reflexión cada mes. La serie de seminarios virtuales está dirigida a todos los socios de EuroRAP y otras partes interesadas, desde clubes de automovilistas hasta autoridades viarias, pasando por investigadores.