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Digital Roads of the Future

Driving a digital revolution of our road network

Welcome to the Digital Roads of the Future Initiative. The programme is leading the way in the digital revolution of our vital road network, a once-in-a-century transformation to make roads safer and greener. The initiative involves more than 50 researchers at Cambridge, working collaboratively with business. They will explore how digital twins, smart materials, data science and robotic monitoring can work together to develop a connected physical and digital road infrastructure system. The vision is to deliver resilient roads that can measure and monitor their own performance over time.









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Read more at: Full Paper Submission Deadline Extended to 24 January 2026

Full Paper Submission Deadline Extended to 24 January 2026

5 January 2026

We are pleased to announce that the full paper submission deadline for our upcoming July events has been extended to 24 January 2026 . This extension provides authors with additional time to prepare and submit their research for consideration. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your work and engage with leading experts...

Read more at: Digital Roads publish papers on autonomous road repair

Digital Roads publish papers on autonomous road repair

5 January 2026

The Digital Roads project has started the new year with two new publications on the autonomous repair of roads in the UK. The publications come from the Smart Materials, with Academic lead Prof Abir Al-tabbaa, and Automation & Robotics, with Academic lead Prof Fumiya Iida. system_architecture.jpg The first paper...

Read more at: Percy Lam, Digital Roads PhD Student, awarded Best Paper at BMVC Workshop 2025

Percy Lam, Digital Roads PhD Student, awarded Best Paper at BMVC Workshop 2025

28 November 2025

We are delighted to announce that Digital Roads supported PhD student, Percy Lam, has been awarded Best Paper at the DIFA: Deep Learning-based Information Fusion and Its Applications Workshop, affiliated to the 36th British Machine Vision Conference for his paper, 'Robust pothole Detection through Dual-pass RGB and Depth...