Jun 27, 2025 | AiRAP, General, LAC, News, ViaSegura
The World Road Association (PIARC) has launched a major new report titled Artificial Intelligence in the Road Sector, offering a comprehensive global assessment of how AI is being used – and can be further adopted – across all phases of road infrastructure...
May 28, 2025 | AiRAP, General, News
Transport ministers from 69 countries adopted two landmark road safety policy recommendations last week pertaining to road safety for governments and the use of Artificial Intelligence by road authorities at the International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit in Leipzig....
Apr 28, 2025 | 3 star, AiRAP, Climate Change, CycleRAP, Events, News, RAP Tools, Resources, SR4S, Star rating for designs, UN Global Road Safety Week, Youth Engagement App
UN Global Road Safety Week, observed from 12-18 May 2025, focuses on the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”. iRAP is proud to join this global effort to raise awareness and promote advocacy and action for safer road...
Apr 28, 2025 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, General, News
China’s use of advanced technologies and AI for traffic safety was on show in Wuhan last week supported by iRAP’s shared innovation and collaboration for safer roads worldwide. iRAP Acting CEO Greg Smith was a keynote speaker at the 2025 China Road Traffic Safety...
Feb 17, 2025 | 75% of travel mapping, AiRAP, General, News
The UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.6 aims to halve road deaths and injuries by 2030. More than one third of that goal will be achieved by ensuring that 75% of travel for each road user is on 3-star or better roads by the end of the Decade (iRAP Safety Insights...
Feb 5, 2025 | AiRAP, General, News
Anditi and Agilysis have announced their collaboration on a major road safety initiative for the Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland (TMR) to conduct an AiRAP Star Rating assessment across nearly 6,000 km of the state’s National Land Transport...
Oct 16, 2024 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Sep 5, 2024 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Jan 4, 2024 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Jan 4, 2024 | AiRAP, Europe, General, News
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...
Sep 12, 2023 | General, News
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...
Sep 1, 2023 | News
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....
Aug 3, 2023 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, General
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,...
Jun 20, 2023 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, General, News
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...
Jun 16, 2023 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, News
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,...
Apr 20, 2023 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, News
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...
Apr 20, 2023 | AiRAP, Asia Pacific, General, News
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...
Dec 15, 2022 | Accredited suppliers pop up, AiRAP, News
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...
Oct 7, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Sep 13, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Aug 1, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
May 9, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Mar 4, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
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...
Feb 14, 2022 | AiRAP, News, ViaSegura
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...
Dec 20, 2021 | AiRAP, News
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...