---
title: "An Automated Maintenance Plant for Highways"
authors:
  - "N'zebo Richard Anvo"
  - "Alwyn Mathew"
  - "Lavindra de Silva"
  - "Damian Palin"
  - "Jie Xu"
  - "Samuel Schaefer"
  - "Abir Al-Tabbaa"
  - "Fumiya Iida"
  - "Ioannis Brilakis"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2026/955"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/955"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2026/0955.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2026
pages: "8354-8357"
track: "Demo Track"
keywords:
  - "AI: Robotics"
  - "AI: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications"
---

# An Automated Maintenance Plant for Highways

N'zebo Richard Anvo, Alwyn Mathew, Lavindra de Silva, Damian Palin, Jie Xu, Samuel Schaefer, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Fumiya Iida, Ioannis Brilakis

*Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 8354-8357. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2026/955](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/955)

## Abstract

The Digital Roads project at Cambridge University is leveraging digitalisation, automation, and low-carbon materials to build an Automated Maintenance Plant (AMP) for UK road networks, aimed at minimising repair times to reduce congestion, improving safety, and contributing to the UK’s net-zero goals through faster, more accurate, and efficient road maintenance.