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Use Case #2 · Lead: INFRA PLAN · Thessaloniki

Infrastructure maintenance & road monitoring for hazards.

Combining real-time data and intelligent infrastructure to streamline maintenance, reduce risk, and support safer, more efficient road networks.

The Challenge

Reactive maintenance can't keep up with modern road networks.

The maintenance of urban and secondary roads is a complex challenge - crucial for safety, efficiency and longevity. With expanding urban areas and intricate transport networks, traditional manual maintenance is proving inadequate and costly. Potholes disrupt traffic, create hazards, and drive up municipal repair costs over time.

Historically, road maintenance has been reactive - addressing damage only after it becomes severe. This approach increases repair costs and impacts local economies through traffic delays, vehicle wear and accident risk. Manual inspections over large networks are labour-intensive and prone to oversight, making early detection difficult.

Secondary roads connect urban centres with remote areas. They often receive less infrastructure investment and face distinct challenges - sudden weather, fog, fallen trees, rockslides and animal crossings. Robust monitoring and timely intervention are essential.

iDriving's response: proactive monitoring and advanced technology - real-time data combined with intelligent infrastructure to streamline maintenance, reduce risks and support safer networks for all users.

Activities & results

The Use Case #2 pilots, step by step.

PUC 2.2 · Thessaloniki, Greece

✓ Trials 6–8 Oct 2026

From 6 to 8 October 2026, the Municipality of Thessaloniki hosted a three-day pilot in the car park of the Forest Theatre (Theatro Dasous). The partners tested tools that detect hazards caused by weather, such as heavy rain, flooding or strong winds, and send safety warnings in real time. Drones flew over selected high-risk spots to look for obstacles on the road, such as fallen trees, rocks or bins, and helped to monitor weather conditions. The Municipal Police Directorate worked with the partners to test the solutions in real urban conditions; the cameras were used only to detect environmental and road-safety hazards, not to identify people or vehicles.

Highlights from the iDriving pilot in Thessaloniki, 6–8 October 2026. Watch on YouTube →

Road hazard warning sign during the iDriving pilot in Thessaloniki
  • 19 Dec 2024 · Online2nd workshop of the Thessaloniki pilot use case: capability gaps in critical road situations and traffic management, user requirements and KPIs. Read more
  • 6–8 Oct 2026 · ThessalonikiThree-day pilot at the Forest Theatre car park. Read the pilot story
Read the full pilot story →

PUC 2.1 · Karlovac, Croatia

● This week · 21–22 Oct 2026

The Karlovac pilot is taking place this week. The iDriving partners meet in Karlovac for the project plenary on 19–20 October 2026, followed by the trials on 21–22 October 2026, with drones run by Acceligence. The scenario focuses on road maintenance on urban and secondary roads: detecting road defects such as potholes with drones and sensors, mapping them in 3D in the iDriving digital twin, planning repairs with less disruption, and keeping roadworks zones safe for workers and road users. News, photos and video will follow here soon.

  • 1 Nov 2024 · Online1st participatory workshop for the Karlovac use case.
  • 17 Jan 2025 · Online2nd participatory workshop with 45 participants, partners and local stakeholders, on pilot design and user requirements for urban and rural road maintenance. Read more
  • 2 Oct 2026 · ŠibenikAt the cITy Upgrade conference, participants discussed examples from iDriving and the experience of the City of Karlovac. Read more
Pilot Preparation · UC #2 Groundwork · status at M18 (Dec 2025)

How the Karlovac & Thessaloniki pilots were prepared.

Per the D1.5 mid-term report (M01-M18), Use Case #2 has built the methodological and technical foundations for two parallel trials. The Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) framework is structured, weather pipelines are deployed, and data-sharing protocols are agreed with local authorities.

HR

PUC 2.1 - Karlovac, Croatia

Infrastructure maintenance & defect detection

  • FMEA framework refined with historical and contextual data aligned to the Karlovac use case.
  • Core maintenance modules structured: risk assessment, health/logistics, maintenance scheduling.
  • Data-collection coordination established with the Municipality of Karlovac and local transport operators.
  • Local police engaged for adverse-weather records to support KPI definition.

Lead: INFRA PLAN · COK Grad Karlovac

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PUC 2.2 - Thessaloniki, Greece

Hazard monitoring & weather-aware safety

  • Fully Dockerised WRF/WRFDA weather monitoring environment deployed.
  • Ingestion pipelines integrated for radar and weather-station data.
  • Environmental hazard classes defined (rockslide, fallen tree, flash-flood scenes).
  • Open datasets collected for geological and road-hazard scenes; annotation guidelines drafted.

Lead: Dimos Thessalonikis · DReVen

D2.1
Enhanced Safety Criteria Catalogue published (M18)
D5.1
First iDriving prototype available for UC #2 integration
M19-M28
Planned UC #2 trial window (T6.3 - Infrastructure Maintenance & Monitoring)
D6.2
PUC2 trial execution & validation report (due Dec 2026)
D2.1 - Safety Criteria Catalogue → Mid-term review (D1.5) →
Expected impact

From reactive repair to proactive resilience.

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Major road defects detected in real time
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Cut in maintenance costs through optimisation
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Reduction in work-zone incidents
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Road users informed in real time
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Reduction in weather-related accidents
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Faster obstruction detection & reporting
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Less congestion in high-risk areas
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Increased voluntary safety adherence