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title: "Smart City Expo Barcelona 2026: What Cities Want From Road Safety Data"
description: "Takeaways from Smart City Expo Barcelona 2026: cities want reliable road safety data from cameras they already run, connected to their own systems."
image: https://blog.goodvisionlive.com/hubfs/smart-city-expo-barcelona-2026-blog-header.png
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# Smart City Expo Barcelona 2026: What Cities Want From Road Safety Data
Nov 10, 2026, 4:22:15 PM
## Summary
- At Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, municipalities of every size, from small towns to large cities, asked GoodVision for reliable road safety data from the cameras they already operate.
- City teams named manual counts and pneumatic road tubes as the methods they want to move away from.
- No city improves road safety on its own. Municipalities, system integrators and technology providers need to agree on the real need and then work in the same direction.
- A road safety system works when its components exchange data. Adding tools that cannot talk to each other gives a city more screens to watch, not better decisions.
- GoodVision's role is the data and analytics layer, delivered through APIs into the platforms that cities and integrators already run.
Cities at Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 wanted road safety data they can trust, taken from cameras they already own and delivered into the systems they already use. That was the clearest message our team heard over three days on stand F186 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via, from 3 to 5 November, and it came from small towns as often as from large cities.
Our business development team spent the show talking with municipal traffic and mobility teams, system integrators and other technology providers. Three points stood out. Each one says something about how cities will buy road safety technology over the next few years, and about where a company like GoodVision fits.
## Why Can't One City Fix Road Safety on Its Own?
No city improves road safety alone. A municipality knows its streets, its crash history and its political priorities. A system integrator knows how to design, install and maintain a working system across hundreds of sites. Technology providers each bring one capability: detection, signal control, enforcement, a data platform.
Road safety improves when those players understand the real need together before anyone picks a product, and then connect their technologies so they move in the same direction. When that alignment is missing, a city ends up with a pilot that works in isolation and never scales.
Within that ecosystem, GoodVision is one partner among several. We add traffic data and analytics to what municipalities and integrators are building. The city sets the goal, the integrator builds the system, and GoodVision supplies the data that tells both of them whether it is working.
## What Do Cities Want Instead of Manual Counts and Road Tubes?
The demand we heard most was practical. City teams are tired of manual counts and pneumatic tubes stretched across their streets. A manual count or a tube survey gives you a few days of data at one location, collected by a crew that then moves on. Neither shows the near misses that happen between crashes, which are the early warning a road safety program needs.
At the same time, many of those cities already run CCTV at their intersections. That footage gets watched in a control room or archived, and rarely measured. What municipalities asked for in Barcelona was a way to turn the cameras they already have into a source of reliable data, and to manage road safety in an integrated way from there.
That is where GoodVision can help. Our AI runs on existing camera infrastructure and works with CCTV and video management systems of any brand. From a camera's view, a city can get:
- Counts and classifications of every road user, including pedestrians and cyclists
- Trajectories and speeds
- Near-miss events measured with Post-Encroachment Time (PET) and Time to Collision (TTC), the surrogate safety metrics that flag conflicts before they turn into crashes
- Structured data and alerts sent to the city's or the integrator's own platform
Not every camera suits every analysis. Position, angle and image quality decide what a camera can measure, and road users need to fill enough of the frame to be detected reliably. Some sites need a camera repositioned or added. A short assessment of the existing network tells you which cameras can do the job before anyone commits to a rollout.
## How Do You Build a Road Safety System Where the Parts Work Together?
The third point was a warning. Plenty of technologies can create real synergies and form a solid, integrated solution. The risk is stacking up tools that do not talk to each other: a detection system with its own dashboard, a signal controller with its own interface, a data platform that cannot read either. Each one works. Together they give operators more screens and no shared picture.
Building intelligent monitoring takes orchestration. The components need to coexist, exchange data and serve one goal. That work usually sits with the integrator, and it goes faster when every component is built to connect.
GoodVision is designed to be one of those connecting pieces. Live Traffic has a public REST API and integrates with smart city platforms, traffic operations dashboards, signal controllers and wider ITS systems. A city can also run it as a standalone tool and connect it later.
If you are assembling a road safety system, four questions help test whether a component will fit:
1. Does it work with the cameras and video systems you already run?
2. Can its data leave the product through an open, documented API?
3. Can it run alongside your existing systems without replacing them?
4. Will your integrator be able to connect it to the platform your operators already use?
A component that fails these questions may still be a good product. It will be harder to orchestrate.
## FAQ
### What Is Smart City Expo World Congress?
Smart City Expo World Congress is an annual smart city event held at Fira Barcelona Gran Via. The 2026 edition ran from 3 to 5 November, and GoodVision exhibited on stand F186 in Hall 2.
### Can Existing Traffic Cameras Be Used for Road Safety Analysis?
Often, yes. GoodVision works with existing CCTV and video management systems of any brand, and whether a given camera fits depends on its position, view and video quality.
### What Road Safety Data Can a City Get From Its Cameras?
With GoodVision, a city can get counts and classifications of every road user, trajectories, speeds and near-miss events measured with PET and TTC.
### How Does Camera-Based Traffic Data Reach a City's Own Systems?
GoodVision Live Traffic sends structured data and alerts through a public REST API and integrations with smart city platforms, traffic operations dashboards and signal controllers.
### What Role Do System Integrators Play in Smart City Road Safety?
Integrators design, connect and maintain the full system, and they make sure each component, including the data layer, works with the others toward one road safety goal.
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If your city already runs cameras at its intersections, request a pilot and see what they can measure on your own network before you commit to a rollout. Get in touch through our contact form at [goodvisionlive.com/contacts/](https://goodvisionlive.com/contacts/).
Tags: [AI in transportation](https://blog.goodvisionlive.com/tag/ai-in-transportation), [AI Traffic Analytics](https://blog.goodvisionlive.com/tag/ai-traffic-analytics), [Road Safety Analytics](https://blog.goodvisionlive.com/tag/road-safety-analytics)
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