The LiveRoad Protocol (LRP) is a neutral, privacy-by-design open standard for verified real-time road event intelligence — manufacturer-agnostic, governance-neutral, and permanently open. A Toyota sensor can inform a BMW navigation system, contribute to a HERE map tile, and trigger a municipal alert — without proprietary intermediaries.
Vehicles, cameras, IoT sensors and connected infrastructure perceive road reality every second. Yet global cartography runs on data refreshed in hours or days. The bottleneck is not detection — it is the absence of a neutral protocol between sensors and maps. The Internet did not grow by building better websites; it grew by standardising the protocol beneath them. LRP applies that logic to cartographic intelligence.
A clean separation of concerns: contribution, validation, and consumption. Each layer is independently specified, independently implementable, and independently auditable.
LRP is positioned alongside — not against — ETSI ITS, C-V2X, SAE J2735, DATEX II, NGSI-LD, SensorThings API, ISO 20078, UNECE WP.29 R155/156, Catena-X, and Gaia-X. Where those standards govern communication, supply chains, or static geometry, LRP governs the missing layer: verified, real-time road event intelligence shared across competing ecosystems.
The LRP is stewarded by the LRP Ecosystem Partnership (LEP), a federated body operating under the Foundation Covenant. Authorship and intellectual origin belong to Michel Martins de Araujo, registered and timestamped in 2025 via Avctoris. Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International with Foundation Covenant.
The LRP v3.0 Academic Paper specifies the full protocol — architecture, trust model, threat model, governance, regulatory and economic framework. Request a copy or contribute to the reference implementation.