eSafety Compendium

Recommendations:(12) After consultations (telecommunications authorities, civil protectionauthorities, industry through CGALIES) adopt a Commission Recommendationon the introduction and implementation of E-112 in Europe.(13) Establish a European Emergency Communications Forum to continue theCGALIES work and to monitor the implementation of E-112 in the MemberStates.Establish national liaison groups to co-ordinate the implementation and buildingup of the E-112 service chain.(14) For in-vehicle emergency calls (e-calls), establish data requirements and datatransfer protocol for e-Calls originating from vehicles. Establish an interfacespecification and routing and handling procedures for e-Calls with location andother accident-related information.3.9. Traffic and Travel InformationReal-time TTI for road safetyAccurate, reliable and on-time Traffic and Travel Information has the potential toincrease the safety and efficiency of the transport system in many ways. With real-timetraffic information, the road users can avoid congestion and bottlenecks, selectalternative routes and avoid secondary accidents and incidents in urban areas and themotorway network.Multiple services are in use in Europe, with various technologies. RDS-TMC is the onlyavailable pan-European service, supported by the TMC Forum. The cooperationbetween the car industry and service providers has produced many commercial servicesfor multiple platforms (in-vehicle platform, internet and mobile phones). On the side ofdata collection, so called Floating-Vehicle Data (FVD) is emerging as a new method forreal-time traffic information.Essential requirements for the establishment of TTI services are access to the publicsector data, and capability of the private and public sectors to co-operate in serviceprovision at local, regional, national and EU levels. In order to facilitate this, theCommission published in 2001 a Recommendation on the deployment of Traffic andTravel services in Europe 30 . This recommendations asks the Member States to report in2002. Also, a Commission proposal for a Directive on ”Exploitation of Public SectorInformation” has been recently published 31 , and is expected to become mandatory in2005.The commercial sector appears to be well placed to provide services in largeconglomerations like London, Paris and Berlin. However, the realisation of pan-European TTI services and especially services providing all the necessary safety-relatedinformation cannot be expected from the private sector only.30 Commission Recommendation on the development of a legal and business framework forparticipation of the private sector in deploying telematics-based Traffic and Travel Information (TTI)services in Europe, OJ L 199/20 24.7.200131 COM (2002) 207 final dated 5.6.2002. “Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and oftheCouncil on the re-use and commercial exploitation of public sector documents”Page 37 of 490