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AI4LIFE

Cities are responsible for about 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions and road transportation accounts for about a quarter of those emissions. Furthermore, hours wasted in traffic congestion costs Europe €110 billion per year. These costs, in addition the air pollution-related health issues, add up to several hundred billion euros per year. And most importantly, 20,000 people die annually in accidents on European roads, about 40% of which occur in cities and 50% at intersections.
Transport control centre monitoring screens

Project summary

Cities are responsible for about 70% of all greenhouse gas emissions and road transportation accounts for about a quarter of those emissions. Furthermore, hours wasted in traffic congestion costs Europe €110 billion per year. These costs, in addition the air pollution-related health issues, add up to several hundred billion euros per year. And most importantly, 20,000 people die annually in accidents on European roads, about 40% of which occur in cities and 50% at intersections.

Intersections play a very important environmental, economic and social role in urban environments but are also key bottlenecks and prone to fatal accidents. Thus, the project AI4LIFE aims to build an integrated AI-based smart intersection management system that will reduce congestion, (thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions and time wasted in traffic), reduce accidents, and increase the quality of life of citizens.

The project will integrate solutions from two complementary enterprises: ISBAK and Kentyou. ISBAK, the municipal company of Istanbul, will bring the internet of things (IoT) infrastructure and an innovative adaptive signalised intersection management system to AI4LIFE. And Kentyou, an innovative award-winning startup, will bring its interoperable AI-driven data platform and a tool for visualisation and decision-making support.

The integrated solution will be validated in two complementary pilot cities: Istanbul, Turkey and Helsinki, Finland. The project will also build a commercialisation strategy to scale the solution in Europe and beyond.

Project start:

1 January 2024

Project end:

31 December 2024

Budget:

€579,999

Countries

finland, turkiye

Context

The objective of AI4LIFE is to reduce traffic congestions and accidents in urban areas, ultimately increasing the quality of life of its citizens.

Challenge

AI4LIFE is addressing the future mobility challenge to improve traffic flow and safety, with enhanced user experience both for citizens and the mobility management operators.

Expected outcome

The main output of AI4LIFE will be an integrated intersection management system composed of IoT devices and a software tool enabling data-driven decision making for sustainable mobility.

Impact

The main short term impact of the project has been about reducing the time of detecting abnormal traffic situations and interventions to improve the traffic status. Currently there are still quite manual work on-going for traffic monitoring. The traffic operators need to watch over cameras, the traffic intensity map to detect abnormal situations or receive calls from the citizens. With AI4LIFE project we are automatising as much as possible the detection of abnormal situations and warn the operator for potential issues. In addition, instead of using several tools at a time (traffic monitoring, data analysis, camera surveillance, events, impact monitoring, etc.), the traffic operators can focus on using one main tool that provides all these functionalities

Project partners

Members of the Association, Leading Cities
Türkiye

City of Istanbul

Silver
France

Kentyou

Silver
Türkiye

ISBAK - Istanbul IT and Smart City Technologies Inc.

Members of the Association, Leading Cities
Finland

City of Helsinki

Project Lead

Levent Gürgen

levent@kentyou.com