“Safety is our priority and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to help better protect people who use or work on our roads,” said James Gibson, National Highways’ technology programme portfolio manager.
National Highways has announced the winners of their Hazard Protection on Roads Accelerator competition launched to find innovative ways to improve road safety, with six projects receiving £60,000 to turn their ideas into reality.
Launched in collaboration with Connected Spaces Catapult, the initiative targeted small or medium enterprises that may not have worked with National Highways before, with a shortlist of nine organisations initially granted up to £30,000 funding to design trials.
The six finalists are due to road test their ideas between now and November, working in conjunction with National Highways and its supply partners to use national infrastructure, such as CCTV systems and motorways.
Among the finalists are Esitu Solutions, based in Nottingham, which will create a virtual reality training course as a downloadable app for the Meta Quest headset to promote safer and more considerate driving.
The VivaCity team from London, will use sensors to collect data on near-misses and other hazardous interactions between road users to let safety teams understand the causes of conflicts and collisions between drivers, and design better intervention.
Also from London, Valerann will use real-time road data analytics to fuse data from a broad range of sources and deliver road traffic insights and accident risk modelling, allowing proactive management of road risks by road traffic officers.
The other finalists include Roadside Technologies, from Wiltshire, which is developing an automated hazardous object detection solution, VESOS, in Devon, set to develop systems to harvest eCall data automatically sent after collisions or breakdowns, and CrossTech, from Wiltshire, which has developed a stopped vehicle detection verification system.
National Highways’ technology programme portfolio manager, James Gibson, said: “We are delighted with the innovative ideas that we have discovered and very excited about how well they are developing.
“Safety is our priority and we are always looking for new and innovative ways to help better protect people who use or work on our roads. We are confident that through these trials we can find better ways of identifying, analysing and responding to hazards that could ultimately help to prevent road accidents and people coming to harm on our roads.”
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