Aisin Mobility collaborates with Gaist, the UK leader in innovative road surveying technology, to help local authorities improve road safety.
With the wide deployment of connected cars in recent years, a massive amount of data is collected each day on European roads. Aisin has found the way to leverage this existing connected car data to make our roads safer, under the brand RoadTrace™. Aisin, a global mobility company, is now collaborating with Gaist, a renowned innovator in road surveying technologies, to combine their technologies and help UK local authorities to prioritise their road maintenance work, based on the safety impact for road users.
Aisin‘s RoadTrace™ technology is able to detect unusual driving patterns directly from the data collected by existing connected vehicles. Data is harvested and aggregated from multiple sources, then processed using RoadTrace™ AI to produce the intelligent insights that indicate problems of road surface deterioration, signage, lining and road geometry or infrastructure design issues.
Gaist will provide high-definition imagery of the areas to be investigated and access to their road maintenance scheme design capabilities to support Aisin in delivering a powerful tool to local authorities and other road operators. It will enable them to identify potential road safety issues efficiently and easily and prioritise their maintenance plans accordingly.
In addition to supporting road operators to efficiently tackle safety challenges, the service will significantly contribute to improving road safety for users and support the European Commission’s ‘Vision Zero’ mission to reduce road deaths to zero by 2050.
The partnership brings together two of the global leaders in the highways technology field. Aisin, a leading mobility company and part of the Toyota Group, creates responsible and connected mobility solutions for people and goods. Combining their automotive and geolocation heritage with pioneering AI techniques, Aisin is building the connected mobility ecosystems of the future.
Adding to recent developments in driver assistance safety systems, like Driver Monitoring and Intelligent Speed Assist, Aisin’s RoadTrace™ technology provides insights on collective road usage to Road Operators and Local Authorities, helping them to make roads safer.
The unrivalled highways surveying and analysis provided by Gaist has seen its customer base extend rapidly. Demand for its highly detailed and current data is today high from broadband and utilities groups, ‘smart parking’ companies and those at the forefront of the Connected Autonomous Vehicle revolution alongside its established UK customer base of local authorities.
“Aisin is delighted to be working with Gaist to bring our pioneering road safety insights to local authorities, helping them to make informed decisions based on real road usage for safer roads.”
“We firmly believe that this revolutionary new offering will bring about a step change in road safety. For years big data, connected cars and AI have been overhyped in their ability to meaningfully transform the real world as we know it. What this product offers is real innovation, applied in a real world context to bring about real change. Gaist and Aisin share a vision for using data that is now available through advancements in connected car technology to derive real and useable insights that will benefit all road users.”
For Aisin, this collaboration is the first step in its ambitious plan to expand its services to governments, road operators and local authorities in Europe, after the successful launch of similar services in Japan.
For more information contact Lorna Payne, Business Development Manager at Aisin on lorna.payne@aisin-europe.com