On 13th June 2025, three EU-funded projects—EvoRoads, iDriving, and Camber—joined forces in a collaborative workshop to explore how data can transform road safety for all users. The event was catalyzed by the recent publication of EvoRoads Deliverable D1.2: Requirements, Conceptual Architecture, and Augmented Safety Criteria Catalogue, and brought together experts to exchange insights, best practices, and visions for the future of safe mobility systems.

The workshop was not only a platform for sharing project developments and future plans—it also served as a fertile ground to align approaches, foster synergies, and extend the relevance of EvoRoads’ outcomes to the broader safe system community.

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Following the opening, the workshop commenced with Angela-Maria Despotopoulou from Frontier Innovations, who introduced the EvoRoads project. She outlined the philosophy behind the Living Lab methodology and presented the work undertaken to produce Deliverable 1.2.

Next, Dr. Alexandros Sfyridis from CERTH presented the iDriving project, emphasizing its transformative vision for enhancing road safety in both urban and rural areas. He highlighted how technologies such as AI, real-time data, and advanced sensors are being leveraged to develop and implement an intelligent road safety and maintenance system—aimed at making roads smarter, safer, and more sustainable for all users.

Finally, Olivera Rozi and Despina Vounasis from EIRA introduced the Camber project. They discussed its goal of demonstrating practical solutions for integrating asset and safety management, with a particular focus on urban and secondary roads.

Spotlight on Deliverable D1.2: Building the Foundation for Data-Driven Safety

The newly published EvoRoads Deliverable D1.2 lays down the technical and methodological foundation for a holistic safety assessment framework designed around stakeholder input and real-world testing in Living Labs across Europe.

Key highlights include:

• An Augmented Safety Criteria Catalogue featuring 124 initial KPIs distilled into 39 core metrics across five dimensions: infrastructure, traffic management, user behaviour, VRUs (vulnerable road users), and vehicle/CCAM technologies.

• A detailed conceptual architecture of the EvoRoads platform, based on layered, modular, and interoperable components including real-time data integration, digital twins, and human-in-the-loop intelligence.

• Rich documentation of co-creation activities in Living Labs (Spain, Italy, Latvia, and Romania), where local stakeholders helped define needs, validate KPIs, and refine pilot implementations.

• A thorough stakeholder feedback analysis, revealing high engagement and confirming the relevance of the proposed criteria—particularly in user behaviour and VRU categories.

• A phased implementation roadmap and risk management strategy, ensuring a practical path toward large-scale deployment.

The deliverable reflects the EvoRoads project’s strong commitment to co-creation and long-term impact. It also provides a valuable resource for other initiatives aiming to embed safety deeply into infrastructure planning and digital mobility services.

Workshop Outcomes: Towards a Shared Vision for Safer Roads

The discussion during the workshop confirmed that EvoRoads, iDriving, and Camber share more common ground than differences, particularly in their ambitions to enhance road safety through data-driven innovation. While each project brings its own focus and technologies, a strong foundation for synergy and joint action was clearly established.

Participants identified a shared need to exchange and harmonise datasets, such as those used to train algorithms for road asset condition detection (e.g. road sign deterioration). In this context:

• iDriving expressed openness to sharing anonymized datasets and pre-trained models for research and development.

• The idea of a common, GDPR-compliant data repository was proposed, which could benefit all three projects and potentially others in the future.

• A joint report on shared and shareable data resources was suggested to promote transparency, interoperability, and reuse.

 At the same time, measuring impact emerged as a key challenge. While all projects define impact-related KPIs, concretely assessing their benefit to the general public—especially within legal and privacy constraints—remains a complex task. EvoRoads’ co-creation and Living Lab addresses such issue practically, involving municipalities and stakeholders (e.g. hospitals) to ensure that real-world needs—not just technical ambitions—guide deployments (thus matching cost-benefit analysis and impact analysis of the solutions proposed in line with the needs and requirements collected)

Finally, while all projects focus both on urban and secondary rural roads, there was consensus on the importance of scalability to larger networks (e.g., TEN-T). This raises questions of stakeholder engagement at higher levels, and how best to integrate project outcomes into policy and infrastructure planning across the EU.