Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC), in response to its commitment to reduce traffic accidents and deaths caused by this cause, began to use an artificial intelligence system that measures road insecurity.
The system, known as AIDA, is a technology sponsored by the United Nations Organization (UN) and consists of a special vehicle that recognizes different factors that can cause accidents such as road lighting, traffic signs and road conditions, while giving recommendations on possible solutions to these problems.
The algorithm of the program evaluates the roads in stars. The most unsafe places have one, while those with the least chance of causing accidents have five.
“With these diagnoses we know what kind of actions (from the point of view of construction and road structure) to carry out to raise the road system itself from two to five stars,” said Deligne Ascención Burgos, Minister of Public Works.
This system has been used in several parts of the country, such as the Duarte highway, which has been declared in a “state of emergency” to give priority to intervention, after having obtained a total of two stars, an indicator of the great dangers which represents going through it.
Other measures that the institution has committed to take to guarantee safer roads are the positioning of railings and signs, as well as the construction of motorcycle-pedestrian crossings.
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His statements were issued at the Weekly Lunch of the Corripio Communications Group, where Luis Bastardo, Deputy Minister of Regional Coordination; Rafael Vásquez Espínola, director of COMIPOL; Rafael Espinal, General Director of the Cabinet and Andrés (Licho) Matos, Director of Communications.
ministry commitment
These measures respond to the commitment made by Minister Ascension before the United Nations General Assembly on Global Road Safety held last June in New York City.
There the minister, who represented the country as head of delegation, promised to reduce deaths and injuries caused by traffic accidents by 50% in the decade 2021-2030, in response to resolution number 74/299, of the General Assembly of UN.
That document declares the period 2021-2031 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety.
