Organisation
The Floow
Amount awarded
£156,436
Completed
2025
Uploaded to Knowledge Centre
12 November 2025
This research project has confirmed the potential of telematics and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a fairer, more objective way to support the driving fitness of older adults.
The Fit2Drive project, which directly informed the recent UK Government consultation on older driver legislation, concludes with twelve recommendations to improve how society manages safe, independent driving for an ageing population.
This project was led by The Floow in collaboration with the School of Computer Science and the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield and the NIHR Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative (D4D). This project was funded by The Road Safety Trust.
The UK’s ageing population means more people are driving beyond the age of 60 than ever before. While many continue to drive safely, concerns exist around how best to assess “fitness to drive” in ways that are both fair and effective.
Traditional methods – such as one-off clinical reviews or driving tests – can be costly, infrequent, and only capture a limited snapshot of a driver’s ability. This approach is struggling to cope with the demand.
Fit2Drive set out to explore whether telematics technology already widely used in motor insurance could be utilised to help measure driving behaviour of older adults over time. The project sought to understand how cognitive changes may impact or be seen in driving behaviour.
Using telematics devices, driving behaviour was monitored longitudinally using many hundreds of measured behavioural features. These findings were analysed using advanced machine learning to help understand driving behaviours of older drivers and those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
As well as exploring the possible value of measured data the project also co-designed interactive feedback capabilities with clinicians and older drivers. This explored how measured information could be shared back to drivers and clinicians to help support informed discussions or future decision making about driving fitness.
The study demonstrated that telematics data could be a valuable, ongoing support system, providing objective evidence to help older drivers and their doctors make informed decisions about continued driving.
Click the link below to access the full report:
https://www.roadsafetytrust.org.uk/funded-projects/the-floow-ltd