📋 Tender Overview
Spains road safety authority the Directorate-General for Traffic DGT and the City of Barcelona with Mobileye presented data from the first two months of the Autonomous Ready initiative a program intended to enhance the safety of streets while analyzing the status of infrastructure to continue improving roads for the future.Through the Autonomous Ready project the City of Barcelona and DGT are using cutting-edge driver assistance technology available now from Mobileye to make the city safer both immediately and in the long term. Equipping fleet vehicles that travel roads at a high frequency serves a dual purpose Fleets gain a significant safety boost while the city gains valuable insights into the most accident-prone points in the city where infrastructure can be improved.Barcelonas public-private collaboration incentivizes city fleets to join the project by providing preferred status to these safe fleets in areas such as parking access and loading and unloading privileges. Additionally these fleets are preparing themselves for expected EU regulations mandating the use of advanced driver-assistance systems ADAS technology beginning in 2022.Barcelonas leaders hope the city can serve as an example for other cities across Spain and the world.The pioneering initiative is intended to make Barcelona safer in two main ways. First by equipping hundreds and eventually thousands of fleet vehicles with Mobileye retrofit collision avoidance and mapping technology those vehicles will be involved in fewer accidents. Secondly by passively surveying the roads of Barcelona and sending that data to the cloud for analysis the city can improve its infrastructure and make city streets safer for all.As equipped fleets travel the streets of Barcelona on their usual routes on-board cameras collect anonymous information about roadside infrastructure that is then aggregated with external data such as accident history or weather information. The aggregated data becomes the basis for the application of artificial intelligence AI in the detection of potential dangers and the identification of hidden problems that generate mobility risks. Over time as these sensors gather more information city leaders can gain an in-depth understanding of the citys risk profile by identifying patterns of behavior in the daily traffic in which vehicles bicycles and pedestrians co-exist. As a result city streets are safer today while evidence-based infrastructure improvements make for safer and more efficient mobility tomorrow.
