eSafety Compendium Addendum 1 - iCar Support

Regarding eCall and RTTI, the stakeholders should follow the recommendations of the
eCall Driving Group and the RTTI Working Group.
Concerning dynamic traffic management and local danger warnings, the Implementation
Road Map WG recommends that the road authorities and operators develop together a
European vision and strategy for the deployment and operation of dynamic traffic
management and local danger warning systems in co-operation with vehicle and
telecommunications industry.
Concerning speed alert, the European Commission and the other stakeholders should
solve the currently open issues and utilise the implementation roadmap produced by the
SpeedAlert project.
Prof. Kulmala informed that a renewed Working Group with active membership would
continuously update the 2005 Final Report. In order to do so, the members will add
security as an additional implementation issue to road maps, monitor priority system
deployment in the 25 Member States and create illustrative road maps for decision
makers.
Prof. Kulmala concluded by presenting a proposal of a simplified Road Map.
Heavy-Duty Vehicles Working Group Recommendations
Mr. Francisco Ferreira (EC, DG INFSO), presented the objectives, approach, work
and results attained of the Heavy-Duty Vehicles Working Group.
According to him, the general objective of the Working Group was to investigate how
road safety could be improved in the specific context of heavy-duty vehicles. Its main
tasks had consisted in:
- developing a comprehensive view of road safety of heavy-duty vehicles,
- producing a summary of significant accident types,
- evaluating around fifty safety measures,
- analysing the introduction obstacles such as cost, regulations, …etc and
- defining recommendations.
Mr. Ferreira outlined the main recommendations of the Working Group. According to
him, the differences between passenger cars, vans and heavy-duty vehicles give need for
special treatment to ensure further increase of vehicle safety of heavy-duty vehicles. He
added that due to the high mass of heavy-duty vehicles, the avoidance of accidents
(primary safety, active safety) should have a higher priority than the reduction of accident
consequences (secondary safety, passive safety). The combination of both measures
would have the highest impact in reducing fatalities.
Mr. Ferreira indicated that the broad market penetration of available or ready to market
vehicle safety systems was hindered by a missing business case. The Working Group
underlined that the current regulations for masses and dimensions also hindered, if the
load length should be kept, the introduction of an advanced passive safety system.
The Member States should therefore:
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