eSafety Compendium

Road MapsThe market introduction of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems involves policy,technological, societal, business, legal and consumer aspects. From the public sectorpoint of view it has to be possible to estimate the market introduction timetable and touse this information to plan for investments and to determine what other measures arerequired for enabling take-up. The Road Maps Working Group promotes thedevelopment of Industry Road Maps, and based on them, elaborates in collaborationwith experts from the Member States corresponding Public Sector Road Maps, whichpredict product development and deployment, and indicate the eSafety Foruminvestments required for improvements in the road networks and in the informationinfrastructure.Business CaseInitially, an eighth Working Group was set up as well, working on the Business Case forIntelligent Vehicle Safety Systems. Due to very close synergies with the eCall WorkingGroup, and the largely overlapping list of members, this group was merged into theWorking Group, which is now called the eCall Driving Group.1.3.2 The Plenary SessionsTwo eSafety Forum Plenary Sessions, chaired by the Commission (DG INFSO), wereorganised in 2003. The main tasks of the eSafety Plenary Sessions are to discuss theselected topics on the basis of the Working Group reports, and to try to conclude withForum Recommendations, which present consensus views on the implementation of theaction in question.The Commission organised the first plenary meeting of the eSafety Forum in Brussels onApril 22, 2003. The Forum brought together 150 representatives of the Europeanautomotive and telecommunication industries, providers of intelligent transport systems,infrastructure operators, public authorities and the Commission.Following the lines set out by its four preparatory working groups, the forum adoptedrecommendations on how to implement eCall (in-vehicle emergency calls), AccidentCausation Data, a better Human-Machine Interaction and a stimulating Businessrationale. Four new Working Groups were also set up covering International Cooperation,Real-time Traffic and Travel Information,Research and Development priorities and Road Maps.The 2nd Plenary Session of the eSafety Forum took place in Madrid onNovember 17, 2003 on the occasion of the 10th Intelligent Transport Systems andServices World Congress. The Forum which featured high-level plenary speakers and apanel discussion discussed the Draft of this Summary Report, and made the Conclusionswhich are presented in Annex III.Page 129 of 490