eSafety Compendium

· NL – Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Western EuropeanRoad Directors (WERD), Paul VAN DER KROON· Nokia GmbH, Razvan OLOSU· Orange World, Michel FOND· POLIS – European Cities and Regions Networking for New Transport Solutions,Jerôme POURBAIX, Maurizio TOMASSINI· PSA Peugeot Citroën, Bernard COUSYN· RACC – Real Automobil Club de Catalunya Nuria ALBERTI, Pere SAURET· Renault, Daniel AUGELLO· Scania Infotronics AB, Peter GILLBRAND· Siemens VDO Automotive, Theo KAMALSKI· Società Autostrade, Sandro TOMASSINI· Tele Atlas Data Gent NV, Ad BASTIAANSEN· Vodafone, Passo Stefan VIEWEG· Volkswagen, Tycho VON JANPREFACEAbout eSafetyeSafety is a joint industry – public sector initiative for improving road safety by usingnew Information and Communications technologies 5 . The overall objective is to joinforces and to build up a European strategy to accelerate the research and development,deployment and use of Intelligent Integrated Road Safety Systems including AdvancedDriver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for increasing road safety in Europe.About this reportThis is the final report of the eSafety Working Group. The eSafety High-Level meetingon 25 April 2002 called for establishing of such a Working Group, to be tasked to furtherelaborate the above-mentioned European strategy, to recommend actions and to preparefor the next High-Level Meeting. TheCommission services established this Working Group, which has met four times on 7June, 8 July, 9 September and 8 November. This report represents the result of the workin the Working Group.5 For more information, refer to www.eu.int/information_society/programmes/esafety/index_en.htmPage 15 of 490