This session examines how emerging technologies, trends and system innovations are reshaping safe and sustainable mobility across Asia and the Pacific.

Road safety remains a critical development challenge, increasingly intersecting with broader mobility trends such as digitalization, decarbonization, public health, and urban transformation. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), predictive risk analytics, automated enforcement, digital traffic management, and safety performance indicators (SPIs) are improving crash prevention and system accountability. Transport policies are increasingly linked to health outcomes, including trauma care systems, active mobility, and air pollution reduction.

The session will explore how governments and partners are leveraging innovation to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries and improve other public health outcomes, and enhance data-driven planning and investment prioritization. Through case studies and financing perspectives, the discussion will highlight practical pathways for scaling technology-enabled, health-aligned, and climate-conscious safe mobility solutions. The session will also launch the "AI for Safer Roads" safer speeds innovation challenge, which is open to data scientists, AI specialists, transport engineers, and policy innovators from ADB member countries.

By the end of the session, participants will:

1. Understand new and emerging technologies that support enhanced road safety implementation.
2. Learn practical approaches to government management and coordination of technologies in road safety initiatives.
3. Identify opportunities for partnership between government and non-governmental partners.
4. Explore frameworks for enhancing investment in technology and innovation in road safety.