eSafety Compendium Addendum 1 - iCar Support

After having recalled the birth of eSafety and the role of the eSafety Working Group, Mr.
Vits outlined the first and the second eSafety Communications (respectively on ICT for
Safe and Intelligent Vehicles and on eCall). Then he presented the Working Groups that
completed their activities: Heavy Duty Vehicles, Real-Time Traffic and Travel
Information, Digital Maps, Human Machine Interaction and Accident Causation
Analysis. The active Working Groups are Communications, Research and Technological
Development, User Outreach, International Cooperation and Implementation Road
Map. Two new Working Groups, Service Oriented Architecture and ICT for Clean
Mobility, have been created.
Mr. Vits also introduced the i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative and its three pillars, namely
the eSafety initiative and the eSafety Forum, RTD in Information and Communications
Technologies and Awareness raising Actions.
The presentation was concluded by recalling that this meeting would follow the objective
of:
- making an overview of the progress achieved so far in the eSafety initiative,
aiming to adopt the recommendations presented by the eSafety Working Groups
(Day1)
- deciding on the next steps on the priority topics eCall and User Outreach, on the
basis of the recommendations of the Working Groups (Day 2)
- presenting the new Working Groups and Commission initiatives, in particular the
Intelligent Car Initiative and the Eurobarometer study, and discussing the next
four years within eSafety (Day 2).
eSafety Implementation status in the EU
Mr. Jacob Bangsgaard (eSafety Support) reported on the implementation status of
eSafety, focusing on national activities.
Mr. Bangsgaard started by presenting the situation of eSafety implementation in a few
European countries. The Netherlands is one of the active countries in the field of eSafety.
They are for example working towards the deployment of eCall. Spain has started to be
more actively involved in eSafety activities, whereas Sweden has always shown a very
strong participation in eSafety and has already looked into incentives for the deployment
of eCall. Finland is at the forefront in Europe for eCall deployment.
Mr. Bangsgaard added that the new Member States were catching up on several issues. In
particular, attention to eCall is growing, especially in the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Presenting initiatives undertaken in Romania, Mr. Bangsgaard said that such initiatives
outside the EU should be supported.
He outlined the work of the International Cooperation WG, specifying that for some
emerging markets, focus on road safety and even eSafety, as a way to improve road
safety, was increasingly strong. India, for example, would like to learn from Europe on
how to manage the increase in the number of vehicles on its roads. India is very
interested in eCall, integrated traffic management, mobility behaviour and crash testing.
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