An independent and global machine-learning research institute established by HERE Technologies has launched its second annual Traffic4Cast competition.

The Institute for Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI) wants the AI community to analyse the datasets in ten cities and create algorithms that predict future traffic flows.

Submissions for this year’s competition are due by October 15, 2020 with the top ranked teams winning a US$10,000 (£8,000) prize and a 12 month research fellowship.

Last year more than 40 teams competed with winners from South Korea, Oxford/Zurich and Toronto, all who successfully demonstrated that neural networks were the most effective method used at predicting traffic instead of “non-black box” solutions.