The EU Road Safety Cluster has published a new white paper titled “Advancing Road Safety Through Data: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Insights from EU Road Safety Projects”, bringing together insights from multiple EU-funded research and innovation initiatives working to improve road safety and automated mobility across Europe.
ERTICO – ITS Europe, as coordinator of the EvoRoads and FRODDO projects and a partner in CAMBER, is proud of the projects' contribution to the publication, which highlights the critical role of integrated, high-quality data in enabling proactive, evidence-based road safety policies and supporting the EU’s Vision Zero objectives.
The white paper examines persistent challenges in road safety data, including fragmentation, under-reporting, inconsistent definitions, limited coverage of vulnerable road users, and constraints related to data governance and privacy. Drawing on experiences from Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ projects, it showcases innovative solutions such as AI-based analytics, Digital Twin frameworks, and federated data spaces, demonstrating how emerging technologies can transform road safety management from reactive crash analysis to proactive risk prevention.
The publication was coordinated by the PHOEBE project and features contributions from V4SAFETY, AI4CCAM, EVENTS, SOTERIA, CAMBER, FRODDO, PHOEBE, iDRIVING, PROTACT-US, SAFETeen, and EvoRoads. Together, these projects represent a broad spectrum of expertise spanning connected and automated mobility, vulnerable road user safety, behavioural analysis, and infrastructure monitoring.
By consolidating lessons learned across multiple initiatives, Advancing Road Safety Through Data provides clear policy recommendations aimed at strengthening data governance, improving interoperability, addressing under-reporting through data linkage, and supporting the deployment of digital infrastructures that enable safer, smarter, and more resilient mobility systems.
The white paper is now publicly available and is intended to support policymakers, road authorities, researchers, and industry stakeholders in advancing proactive, data-driven road safety strategies across Europe on the PHOEBE project website.