VISION: Road Transport in Europe 2025 - FEHRL

Capture of Accident Data
◆ Develop in-vehicle systems for recording accident events for post-hoc investigation.
Develop scene surveying systems and image recognition and data extraction systems for rapid data capture of the
scene following an accident.
Security
● Develop vehicle tracking and sensing systems within infrastructures to recognise major emergencies and terrorist acts.
Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure
Understanding and Informing Users
Understand user opinion on the use of transport services, better optimise those services and systems with respect
to efficiency, safety etc, and understand how to summarise and present to customers/users the overall
performance of transport systems with respect to efficiencies, safety and the environment, so that the user can
make fully informed choices and improved decisions.
Travel Behaviour and Factors Influencing it
◆ Understand how travel behaviour may be modified by packages of measures such as road pricing, improved public
transport integration, better public transport vehicles, and innovative ticketing systems. Understand how the
control of externalities would influence travel behaviour and travel patterns. Improve understanding of the
demand/supply relationships, especially in complex and congested networks. Use the improved understanding of
traveller behaviour and capacity limiting processes to develop better real time management models for traffic and
pedestrian movement.
◆ Develop detailed models for international passenger and freight travel that take account of travel demand across
the EC and all the driving forces but that are also capable of identifying and appraising the impacts of network
improvements at a relatively local level.
Investigate opportunities and requirements for freight 'transhipment' near city boundaries from 'heavy' to lighter
vehicles (lorries to vans etc).
◆ Develop better option models for predicting the effects of planning strategies.
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