Ypsilanti Township, Mich. ---June 24, 2026 --- The American Center for Mobility (ACM), a 500-acre campus and test track located at the historic Willow Run site near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and focused on safe, sustainable, and secure advances in mobility technology, is pleased to announce a research partnership including ACM and centered on SafeDriver-IQ is gaining national attention, with the peer-reviewed research findings presented at the IEEE Engineering in Technology and Innovation (EIT) 2026 conference, held in La Crosse, Wisconsin May 21-23, 2026.
The AI-driven SafeDriver-IQ framework was developed by independent researcher and IEEE senior member, Joyjit Roy and co-authored by Sushanta Das, Ph.D., ACM’s vice president of research and development, Mojtaba Bahramgiri, Ph.D., of Michigan Technological University, which is the primary engineering services provider at ACM, and research partner Samaresh Kumar Singh, principal software engineer at Texas-based HP, Inc.
SafeDriver-IQ introduces an inverse crash modeling approach that converts crash classifier outputs into continuous safety scores ranging from zero to 100 and integrates eight years of national crash data from the NHTSA Crash Report Sampling System with autonomous vehicle trajectory data from the Waymo Open Motion Dataset. It produces real-time, interpretable safety intelligence designed to protect vulnerable road users, including pedestrians and cyclists. Research indicates the framework could reduce traffic crashes by up to 22.7%.
“Current prediction models provide only binary outcomes, limiting actionable insights for real-time driver feedback,” Das said. “SafeDriver-IQ transforms binary crash classifiers into continuous, real-time driver safety scores and addresses a critical gap in road safety technology.”
The research exemplifies how ACM unites with independent researchers to direct positive outcomes in mobility; in this case, to shift road safety from reactive crash analysis to real-time prevention, with applications in advanced driver assistance systems, fleet risk management, and urban infrastructure planning, too.
Lead researcher, Roy, affirmed the value of ACM’s contributions.
“ACM’s involvement has been central to shaping SafeDriver-IQ into a framework designed for the mobility industry’s real demands,” Roy said. “The goal is to deliver proactive safety intelligence to fleet operators, infrastructure planners, and the autonomous vehicle ecosystem at scale.”
Building on the work presented at IEEE 2026, the team is developing a next-generation agentic multi-mod-al architecture for proactive safety in autonomous transportation. This phase two research has already been accepted for presentation at the American Society of Civil Engineers conference to be held March 1-5, 2027, in Philadelphia.
About the American Center for Mobility
The American Center for Mobility is a nonprofit mobility and technology campus located at historic Willow Run in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. ACM provides infrastructure, testing environments, event space, and convening power to help organizations advance safe, sustainable, and secure technologies across transportation and related industries. Learn more at acmwillowrun.org.
