Le IVOIRE project consortium successfully held its Mid-Term Conference, titled “IA pour Vision Zéro dans la sécurité routière”, on 15 April 2025 en Athens, Greece.
Hosted by the National Technical University of Athens, the conference explored the latest advances in AI applications for road safety, aligned with the EU Vision Zero strategy.
🔍 Conference Overview:
The IVORY Mid-Term Conference featured research presentations by IVORY doctoral researchers on:
- Responsible and ethical AI for road safety,
- AI for driver safety,
- AI for proactive infrastructure safety management
It also included keynote lectures by internationally recognised experts in AI and road safety, and a round-table discussion reflecting on future challenges and opportunities.
🎤 Opening Session & DCs’ Three Minute Pitch:
The conference opened with an introduction to IVORY by Dr. Eleonora Papadimitriou. This was followed by 3-minute pitch presentations from all IVORY doctoral candidates, providing a concise overview of their research topics and contributions.
🎥 Watch the presentations: [DC1] [DC3] [DC5] [DC6] [DC7] [DC8] [DC9] [DC10] [DC11] [DC13][DC14]
🛣️ Session 1: AI and Road Infrastructure Safety
The first session focused on AI applications in infrastructure safety and included a keynote lecture by Dr. Simon Washington titled “Improving Road Safety with AI – Harnessing AI Innovation to Reduce Fatalities and Serious Injuries ”. The session continued with presentations from IVORY doctoral candidates in Work Package 6 (WP6), focusing on:
- Automated infrastructure assessment (Porto, J.A., Shahid, M., Ziakopoulos, A., Lopez, D.F., Bradford, J., Yannis, G., Ševrović, M.)
- Subjective Safety and Routing (Agarwal, A., Janssens, D., Bellemans, T.)
- From Infrastructure to Behaviour: Learning Risk Patterns from Telematics (Paradiso, S., Porto, J.A., Ziakopoulos, A., Sideris, H., Avgeros, J., Forstakis, P., Yannis, G.)
- Safety Beyond Crashes: Tracking Conflicts and Infrastructure Optimisation (Altuntas, G., Jabeen, N., Brijs, T., Ectors, W., Jacobs, T., Pirdavani, A., Polders, E.)
The second session explored the intersection of AI and policy-making, and the third session addressed driver behaviour and human factors.
🗣️ Round Table: Messages for the Future
The conference concluded with a round-table discussion involving leading experts in road safety, including Dr. Simon Washington, Prof. George Yannis, Prof. Marco Dozza, Prof. Tom Brijs, and Dr. Amir Pooyan Afghari. The discussion focused on future directions for AI in road safety, highlighting the importance of ethical AI deployment, data-driven decision making, and cross-section collaboration.
About IVORY Project
IVORY – ‘ L'IA pour la Vision Zéro en matière de sécurité routière ’ est un réseau de doctorats industriels, visant à développer un nouveau cadre pour l'intégration de l'IA dans la sécurité routière et à créer une nouvelle génération de chercheurs de premier plan dans ce domaine, afin d'atteindre l'objectif 3.6 des objectifs de développement durable des Nations Unies (réduire de moitié le nombre de décès dus aux accidents de la route d'ici 2030) et la stratégie ‘ Vision Zéro ’ de la CE (éliminer les décès dus aux accidents de la route d'ici 2050). IVORY comprend 4 bénéficiaires académiques et 8 bénéficiaires non académiques, ainsi que 8 partenaires associés, issus des disciplines de l'ingénierie, de la science des données et de l'éthique de la technologie de 10 pays. Il formera 15 chercheurs sur de nouvelles applications d'IA responsables pour l'assistance aux usagers de la route et la gestion de la sécurité des infrastructures, et créera une plateforme durable d'apprentissage et de réseautage.