From street to safer cities

ILMIHA Labs combines computer vision, road behaviour analysis, and injury data to build the evidence layer African cities need to make roads safer.

A motorcycle safety pilot in Tamale uncovered a deeper challenge shaped by infrastructure gaps, unsafe behaviour, and gaps in training and enforcement.

That response became ILMIHA Labs, a platform built to turn street-level observation into evidence agencies can act on.
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Three integrated tools built from the ground up for African road conditions, connected by a single evidence layer.

[ TECHNOLOGY ]

01 - Vision AI Model

Seeing the Road as Data

Our custom-trained Vision AI model monitors how vehicles, motorcycles, and pedestrians move through roads and junctions in real time, revealing movement patterns, safety compliance, and emerging risks. Built for African urban conditions: dense traffic, informal road users, mixed mobility, and variable infrastructure.

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DETECT_STATE: ACTIVE

What the model detects

  • Vehicle types: motorcycles, cars, trucks, tuk-tuks/rickshaws, pedestrians

  • Estimated approach speeds and spacing

  • Helmet use and rider passenger counts

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ASSESS_STATE: ACTIVE

02 - Road Infrastructure Assessment

Understanding How the Road Shapes Risk

Road crashes are not just caused by driver behaviour, they are shaped by what the road looks, feels, and functions like. Our infrastructure assessment layer evaluates road design, signage, markings, junction geometry, and surrounding conditions.

What the assessment covers

  • Road condition, markings, and signage visibility

  • Junction geometry and sight-line analysis

  • Speed-management features: humps, signage, lane narrowing

03 - Road Traffic Injury (RTI) Data

From Hospitals to Hotspot Maps

The third layer of Mobility Intelligence connects road behaviour and infrastructure evidence to what is actually happening to people. In collaboration with Tamale Teaching Hospital (GHS), we integrate non-identifiable RTI data to identify crash hotspots.

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LINK_STATE: ACTIVE

What RTI data enables

  • Location-based crash hotspot mapping

  • Severity and injury pattern analysis by corridor

  • Direct linkage between behaviour and outcomes

How Tamale Built a Platform

[ THE PLATFORM ]

One platform, three integrated layers: Vision AI, infrastructure assessment, and injury data working together as a single evidence layer.

In response, ILMIHA Labs evolved this pilot into a broader Mobility Intelligence platform, combining Vision AI, behavioural observation, and infrastructure analysis to generate scalable insights for policy, enforcement, and safer transport system design.

The evidence layer

Three integrated layers, built from street-level observation in Tamale. Together they form a single evidence base for road safety decisions.

[ Vision AI ]

01 - Vision AI

Computer vision trained on African road contexts. Detects road users, classifies behaviour, and flags risk events in real time across the network.

[ Road Infrastructure ]

02 - Road infrastructure

Physical asset mapping and condition scoring - junction geometry, signage and crossings - tied to where risk actually concentrates.

[ RTI Data ]

03 - Road traffic injury data

Injury records linked to location, time and road type, in collaboration with Tamale Teaching Hospital.

One evidence stream

Behaviour, infrastructure and injury outcomes, unified - so cities can target interventions where they matter most.

Partners & Collaborators

[ COLLABORATION ]
[ Implementation ]

Northern Regional Urban Roads Dept.

Implementation partner. Provides crossing inventory, institutional authority, and public-sector deployment route.

[ Health data ]

GHS / Tamale Teaching Hospital

Health data partner. Provides non-identifiable RTI data to link injury outcomes to road location and behaviour.

[ Strategic scale ]

NRSA

Strategic uptake and scale partner. Road User Intelligence data shared via platform for national oversight.

Okada / motorcycle formalisation

Ministry of Transport

Engaged on evidence-based policy for motorcycle formalisation and school-zone safety infrastructure.

Case studies

Pedestrian Crossing Programme

Transforming safer roads with a focus on school zones in Ghana. We've mapped over 81 points in Tamale, combining Vision AI speed analysis with clinical health outcomes to prioritize urgent crossing redesigns where risk is highest.

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Road User Intelligence Dashboard

A living evidence layer for African secondary cities. We surface real-time behavioral patterns, helmet compliance, passenger loading, and high-risk maneuvers, enabling agencies to shift from manual counts to continuous data-driven enforcement.

Open the RTI Form
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STATUS: PUBLISHED

Connect with ILMIHA Labs

[ CONTACT ]

Scaling street observation into evidence-based policy and transformative infrastructure across Ghana.

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