Picture a busy city street: cyclists navigating traffic, pedestrians crossing in a hurry, e-scooters weaving through narrow roads. For many, these daily journeys still come with hidden risks. The question is—how can cities better understand and prevent them?

How can cities turn safety ambitions into real impact? SOTERIA’s Safe City Certification offers a practical, data‑driven approach to improve urban road safety and protect vulnerable road users.

Most hotspot analyses still rely mainly on accident databases. This approach is useful, but it also comes with clear limitations: it only reflects recorded crashes, requires significant manual effort, and is typically updated only occasionally. More importantly, it leads to a reactive perspective—locations are flagged as risky only after accidents occur. This naturally leads to a key question: how can we identify potentially unsafe locations before accidents happen?