Combining real-time data and intelligent infrastructure to streamline maintenance, reduce risk, and support safer, more efficient 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.
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.
Infrastructure maintenance & defect detection
Lead: INFRA PLAN · COK Grad Karlovac
Hazard monitoring & weather-aware safety
Lead: Dimos Thessalonikis · DReVen