10th eSafety Forum Plenary Meeting - safer and cleaner mobility

Creation date: 16 December 2008

The members of the eSafety Forum met in Brussels on 6th November for the 10th eSafety Forum Plenary Meeting. The eSafety Forum is a joint platform gathering over 150 active members representing all road safety stakeholders that are committed to support the development, deployment and use of active safety systems to enhance road safety throughout Europe.

The event featured presentations on Europe’s needs to have a cleaner and safer mobility and on the future research challenges in the information and communications technologies. Another main topic presented at the meeting and welcomed by the participants was the final report of the “ICT for Clean and Efficient Mobility” working group. The report presents a review of the potential benefits and their significant impact that ICT (information & communication technologies) and ITS (intelligent transport systems) applications can have on road transport energy efficiency and emissions of pollutants and CO2.

The Forum concluded that the current technologies and applications developed by the open platform for vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and services (CVIS) should be adopted and used by all the other projects and more basic research is needed to create a harmonised set of core applications. Moreover the starting of the European-wide FOTs activities were considered to be necessary to assess the real impact of the introduction of the systems on the end users and on the traffic status. The results of these activities can become an important communication tool to raise awareness and to provide useful data to decision makers.

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