AI for Safer Roads Innovation Challenge

How can AI help set speed limits that fit the roads people actually use today?

This was the question behind the AI for Safer Roads: Safer Speeds Innovation Challenge 2026. At the Final Pitch Event on 28 October, four finalist teams, chosen from 46 teams across 15 countries, presented their AI-powered solutions to an international jury:

Each team had five minutes to pitch, followed by questions from jury members from TomTom, Esri, the World Bank, Agilysis Limited, and ADB. Solutions were assessed on methodology, scalability, data accuracy, usability, and how actionable their outputs are for road safety experts and government planners.

 

 

The challenge organizers thank all the finalist teams, jury members, and our partners: Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank Development Economics, International Telecommunication Union, AI for Good, the ADB Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific (JFPR) and High-Level Technology Fund (HLTF), for helping advance data-driven road safety across Asia and the Pacific.