Using data science to foster research into factors that impact on road safety

When managers at Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. Ltd. saw a need to stimulate research into traffic safety using existing big data, they opted to search for suitable partners with the requisite skills and experience to work with them to create an environment to help foster research into factors that impact on road safety. Seeking to leverage this research to help them promote safety on the roads and develop suitable insurance products, they founded a partnership with Shiga University's Graduate School of Data Science - the first such department in Japan - to establish the Japan Safety Society Research Center (JSSRC) to accomplish these goals. Opening in April 2017, the JSSRC has progressively worked towards improving research in this area.