Tackling urban road safety challenges through proactive monitoring of high-risk areas - fostering safer, more harmonious coexistence among all road users.
Urban roads frequently experience high vehicle density, particularly at intersections where traffic converges, creating congestion hotspots. This buildup, combined with driver impatience, can often lead to risky behaviours and traffic violations - motorcycles and cars weaving through lanes or bypassing congestion in unsafe ways.
In densely populated areas, the lower vehicle speeds may foster a false sense of security. Many drivers and riders overlook fundamentals such as wearing helmets or fastening seatbelts, underestimating the risks. Urbanisation has also led to a rise in cyclists, e-bikers and pedestrians sharing roads designed primarily for motor vehicles.
The current infrastructure has struggled to adapt to the evolving mix of road users. Even a small lapse in attention can have severe consequences - particularly for vulnerable road users.
iDriving's response: proactive monitoring of high-risk areas and targeted interventions to enhance road safety, redefining urban road-safety standards for a better future.
Between 16-20 February 2026, the consortium ran a five-day on-site trial in Graz - the first real-world validation of iDriving's enhanced logging and user-interaction monitoring stack. Testing kicked off at the Torus bus garage with physical setup and system integration, then progressed to operational scenarios with drones operated by Acceligence capturing traffic footage in tandem with the wider system.
UAVs operated by Acceligence captured traffic footage with on-board NVIDIA Jetson processing - object detection, incident detection and intelligence streaming back to the system.
YOLOv11 (Small and Medium) running on edge hardware with DeepSort and ByteTrack tracking - identifying helmet/seatbelt use, mobile distraction, vehicle classification and traffic violations.
An OCR pipeline integrated for licence-plate recognition under varied lighting - feeding the violation logging system in real time.
Confirmed data transmission, message handling and system integration across modules from CERTH, Université Gustave Eiffel, Tekniker and Netcompany-Intrasoft.