ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DEI PROFESSIONISTI PER LA SICUREZZA STRADALE

Their core work

AIPSS is an Italian professional association dedicated to road safety, bringing together specialists who work on making roads safer for all users. Their practical expertise spans road infrastructure maintenance, driver fitness monitoring, and traffic management — bridging the gap between safety policy and on-the-ground implementation. They contribute domain knowledge on road safety standards, driver behaviour assessment, and operational safety protocols to European research consortia. Their work directly addresses how roads are maintained, how professional drivers are monitored, and how autonomous systems can improve roadwork safety.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

AIPSS began with a focus on coordinating road safety operations (ECOROADS, 2015) and simulating driver behaviour (SimuSafe, 2017) — relatively traditional road safety topics. By 2021, their work shifted sharply toward technology-intensive applications: autonomous robots for road maintenance (InfraROB) and AI-driven driver monitoring with neurometrics (FITDRIVE). The trajectory shows a clear move from safety coordination and behavioural research toward applied automation and intelligent monitoring systems.

AIPSS is moving from traditional road safety advisory work toward technology-driven solutions — expect them to seek partners in AI, robotics, and sensor systems for future transport safety projects.

How they like to work

AIPSS has participated exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator, across all four projects — suggesting they provide specialist road safety expertise rather than leading large consortia. With 53 unique partners across 22 countries, they are well-connected and clearly comfortable operating in large, diverse European consortia. Their consistent participant role and professional association nature make them a reliable domain expert that brings practitioner credibility to research projects.

AIPSS has built a broad European network of 53 partners across 22 countries through just 4 projects, indicating they join large consortia with wide geographic spread. Their connections are concentrated in the transport safety ecosystem across Western and Southern Europe.

What sets them apart

As a professional association rather than a university or company, AIPSS brings a practitioner perspective that most research partners cannot — they represent the people who actually work on road safety daily. This makes them valuable for projects needing real-world validation, end-user requirements, and dissemination to the professional road safety community. Their dual expertise in both infrastructure (roads, maintenance, robotics) and human factors (driver behaviour, fitness, neurometrics) is an uncommon combination in transport safety research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FITDRIVE
  Largest funding (EUR 453,610) and most technically ambitious — combines AI, neurometrics, and behavioural screening to monitor professional driver fitness.
• InfraROB
  Represents AIPSS's entry into autonomous robotics for road maintenance, including robotized safety cones and RPAS — a significant technology step-up from their earlier work.