On 15 October, the Law and Internet Foundation (LIF) held an internal workshop with the iDriving partners to review the results of the policy survey carried out among them earlier this year. The workshop was conducted by Defne Halil, a legal researcher at LIF, and brought together more than 20 people from the partner organisations in an online session.
The survey is part of Task 7.3, which is led by LIF. The task looks at what iDriving’s work means for policy, and its end result will be a set of policy recommendations. To be useful, these recommendations need to reflect how things work in practice for the partners who develop and test the project’s solutions, from AI-based monitoring to digital twins. They also draw on the experience gained at the pilot sites in Austria, France, Croatia, Greece, Romania, and Spain.
This is why the process started with the partners themselves. In March, the technical partners received a survey about their practical experience. It covered working with road safety data, meeting requirements such as the GDPR, the AI Act, and the ITS Directive, making tools work across different systems and countries, and the kind of support they find most useful. LIF then reviewed the responses and grouped them into themes.
The workshop was an opportunity to check this analysis with the people who had provided the answers. LIF presented the themes, and the partners went through them one by one, confirming the interpretation and clarifying points where needed.
This validation step matters because it makes the recommendations traceable. Each one will rest on input that the partners have not only provided but also reviewed. This makes it easier for policymakers to see where a recommendation comes from and how it relates to practice.
Next, the results will be discussed with stakeholders outside the consortium, including public authorities, road operators, industry, research organisations and standardisation bodies. The final recommendations are planned for 2027, before the end of the project.
LIF thanks all partners who completed the survey and joined the workshop.
iDriving (Intelligent & Digital Roadway Infrastructure for Vehicles Integrated with Next-Gen Technologies) is a 36-month Horizon Europe project (Grant Agreement No. 101147004) developing intelligent and digital road infrastructure solutions for safer urban and secondary roads. More at idriving-project.eu.
