


Tackling Urban Heat Alongside Star Ratings: Blacktown’s Roadside Tree Shading Project
In an innovative approach to combat urban heat, Blacktown City Council in Australia has leveraged AiRAP artificial intelligence to strategically identify the maximum number of locations for new shade-producing roadside tree plantings without detrimentally impacting...
Proud to be a partner in Google.org’s accelerating impact
At its first ever Impact Summit, Google.org has announced plans to accelerate its impact on the world’s largest problems with AI. iRAP is proud to be a partner addressing road traffic crashes that are the leading cause of death among children and young people...
Join us at TRB Washington
iRAP Global Technical Director James Bradford will be at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 103rd Annual Meeting next week in Washington DC, sharing iRAP insights and partner activity, and collaborating with leading US and international agencies for safer roads...
15 PhD positions open for AI in Road Safety: IVORY
The IVORY network has opened 15 fully funded PhD positions covering all aspects of AI in road safety – engineering, human factors, computer science, ethics of technology, and more – with applications due by 30 January. Would you like to make an impact in...
iRAP receives Google support to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Road Safety
MEDIA RELEASE EMBARGO: September 12, 2023 6am EST, 11am UK time, 5pm Vietnam, 8pm Brisbane Download full media release here Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools and AiRAP partnerships will be scaled up to provide 3-star or better...
Sharing iRAP’s digital transformation: Connecting people and data to make roads safer across the world
iRAP’s Global Programme and Communications Manager Judy Williams was delighted to present this week at Something Digital in Brisbane, sharing iRAP Connect and the Partner Portal, as well as the AiRAP Initiative, with Australia’s brightest digital minds....
AiRAP showcased at iRASTE NXT India
IndiaRAP Technical Manager Jigesh Bhavsar shared the life-saving potential of AiRAP at the iRASTE NXT Conference last week. The event is India’s premier technology-for-road-safety conference demonstrating the proven effectiveness of AI-based systems. Launched in 2021,...
Anditi awarded largest ever AiRAP contract by Main Roads WA
Following previous successful pilot projects for Main Roads Western Australia, Anditi is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the contract for the provision of point cloud feature extraction services across 19,164km of Main Roads Western Australia’s road...
AiRAP automation for Australian road safety: Final results
Article and image credit: iMOVE The now completed Australian iMOVE project Accelerated and intelligent RAP data collection was a world-leading piece of work in the area of capturing road feature data for road safety star ratings, and a final report on the project,...
AusRAP news: ITE-ANZ webinar shares iRAP Practical Investments Saving Lives
Inspirational life-saving success was shared yesterday by the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, Main Roads Western Australia and iRAP at an Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE-ANZ) webinar on iRAP Practical Investments Saving Lives. Guest...
AusRAP news: Main Roads WA adopts AiRAP road assessment technology
Main Roads Western Australia (MRWA) and Anditi have revolutionised road safety assessments with an approach that automatically detects road infrastructure data applied on 2,000km of roads in their goal of Star Rating 80% of the State’s most travelled network, An...
Pioneering Use of AI Scoops Prince Michael Royal Road Safety Award
Image credit (above and below): Chris Fossey Phtotography An innovative project, harnessing satellite imagery to understand road network safety has been recognised by the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards. With funding from the World Bank’s Global Road...
AiRAP and fleet management potential explored at NETS
Fleet manager and insurance company interest in using Star Rating data to improve organisational health and safety was explored at this week’s NETS Conference in Miami. iRAP CEO Rob McInerney presented at the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) Annual...
Show me the way: Big Data reveals highest-risk schools in Vietnam
In three Vietnamese cities homing over 9 million people, how can we begin to identify the highest risk school zones and the children who use them daily to tackle the leading killer of youth – road traffic crashes. The answer? Big Data. A Big Data Screening Methodology...
Big data and youth voices: AI&Me celebrates its 1st anniversary for safer schools in Vietnam
Mobility has a different definition for every person around the world. Some of us take cars and motorbikes to bring their children to school. Other students can walk or ride their bicycle. No matter how we move, mobility is at the heart of our society, and our future...
Catch us on Podcast: NETS Talk Now, Driving Change
iRAP is proud to feature on this month’s NETS Talk Now: Driving Change Podcast discussing the impact of road infrastructure safety for fleet and community safety worldwide. Guest presenter and iRAP CEO Rob McInerney said, “There is one thing everyone...
AiRAP presented at Global Standards Symposium calling for technical standards to support socio-economic and environmental goals
iRAP was proud to present this week, alongside UN Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt, global AI innovators and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the Fourth Global Standards Symposium (GSS) calling for technical standards to support progress...
VíaSegura: Digital technology for improving road safety
Reproduced from IDB’s Moviliblog According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traffic crashes are responsible for 1.35 million deaths worldwide. Traffic fatalities are an avoidable public health crisis that particularly impacts low- and middle-income...
Benefit of AI in proactive road infrastructure safety management: ITF findings published
Findings of the International Transport Forum (ITF) 187 Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Proactive Road Infrastructure Safety Management have been published noting the important potential and role of AiRAP. AI pushes the limits of pattern recognition...
EuroRAP Lunchtime seminar #2: AiRAP
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...
Join us for EuroRAP Lunchtime seminar #2 on Research and Innovation Hot Topic: AiRAP
Join us on 7th December from 1 to 2 pm CET for the second of our EuroRAP lunchtime seminars on the Research and Innovation ‘Hot Topic’ of AiRAP (register HERE). AiRAP aims to capture the advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision systems, LIDAR,...
How road authorities use high-quality map data to make roads safer for everyone
Reproduced from TomTom blog. Story by Bart Volckaert. Road crashes take a huge toll on individuals, their families, and nations, claiming the lives of more than 3,000 people each day and costing 3% of global GDP on average. By identifying and prioritizing...
Monica Olyslagers presents AiRAP at IRF Annual Meeting
iRAP Global Innovation Manager Monica Olyslagers will present AiRAP at the IRF Annual Meeting on 21 October in a session on “Unleashing the Potential of Digitalisation in the Road Sector”. Registration is free for the International Road Federation...