MAIN CONCLUSIONS

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS
The 2nd

• The 10th ITS World Congress
• Madrid, 17 November 2003
• European Commission, Information Society
  Directorate-General

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Introduction

• eSafety extensively covered at the 10th ITS
  World Congress in Madrid
• The High-Level Global eSafety Plenary Session
• The 2nd eSafety Forum Plenary Session (Forum
  members)
• Two Strategies and Perspectives Sessions
• Six Special Sessions
• Technical Presentations Sessions

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Global eSafety Plenary (1)

• Moderator
• Mr Patrick Faure, Vice-Chairman, ERTICO
  Supervisory Board Executive Vice-President,
  Renault
• Speakers
• Mrs Maria Dolores de Cospedal Garcia, Deputy
  Minister, Home Affairs Ministry, Spain
• Erkki Liikanen, Member of the European Commission
• Louis Schweitzer, ACEA President and Chairman and
  Chief Executive Officer of Renault
• Mr Gyorgy Csepeli, Parliamentary State Secretary,
  Ministry of Informatics and Communication,
  Hungary
• Mr Hiroyuki Watanabe, Senior Managing Director,
  Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
• Mr Jeff Paniati, Associate Administrator for
  Operations, Federal Highways Administration, USA

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Global eSafety Plenary (2)

• Main Conclusions
• eSafety gaining international recognition and
  moving towards Global eSafety
• The three cornerstones of eSafety RTD,
  Commission Communication, eSafety Forum
• Strong support from the automotive industry
  manifested by resources made available for the
  seven Working Groups
• First instances of implementation at MS, regional
  and local level, but more efforts required

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Global eSafety Plenary (3)

• Global eSafety Next Steps
• The eSafety decade 2010 onwards
• Moving towards zero fatalities
• The fourth cornerstone The user / the driver
• Simplified eSafety Road Maps for 2004-2008
• Voluntary commitment
• Public Awareness
• eCall foundations 2006 The first target of
  eSafety

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2nd Plenary MeetingIntroduction (1)

• The 2nd eSafety Forum Plenary Meeting
• Brought together 120 representatives from
  industry, European Commission, Member States and
  other public authorities
• Showed continuous commitment of all stakeholders
  to eSafety
• Examined in detail the progress of the first
  year, on the basis of a Draft 2003 Summary Report
• Discussed and concluded on the next steps of the
  eSafety initiative

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2nd Plenary MeetingIntroduction (2)

• Moderator
• Martin Rowell Member of ERTICO Supervisory
  Board, Vice President Industry Relations Europe,
  NavTech
• Keynote speakers
• Erkki Liikanen Member of the European
  Commission, Responsible for Enterprise and the
  Information Society
• Louis Schweitzer President of ACEA and Chairman
  and Chief Executive Officer of Renault
• Presentation of the Results of the First Year
• Ivan Hodac - Secretary General of ACEA
• Olivier Mossé - Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO

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2nd Plenary MeetingIntroduction (3)

• Moderated Panel Discussion
• Norbert Schuldt Head of Division, Transport
  Telematics, New Transport Technologies, Federal
  Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing,
  Germany
• Rosalie Zobel - Director, European Commission,
  Directorate-General Information Society,
  Directorate C
• Ivan Hodac - Secretary General of ACEA
• Olivier Mossé - Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO
• Chairs of the seven eSafety Forum Working Groups

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2nd Plenary MeetingMain Conclusions (1)

• 1) Good progress in all the seven industry-led
  eSafety Forum Working Groups, with the first
  concrete results emerging (eCall)
• 2) Commission Communication ICT for Safe and
  Intelligent Vehicles adopted on 15 September
  2003 seen as an important milestone
• 3) Industry emphasizing the need for integrated
  approach, affordability, standardization and
  harmonizing of legal requirements

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2nd Plenary Meeting Main Conclusions (2)

• 4) In-vehicle Emergency Call (eCall) remains
  number one priority for both industry and the
  public sector
• Agreement to use E-112 as per Commission
  recommendations
• Architecture, messages and routing defined
• Working on an economic model and a MoU
• 5) Accident Causation Analysis needs urgent
  short-term actions and a long-term strategy
• On short-term, useful databases exists but
  additional funding needed (1,5 M)
• Work to be continued for defining long-term data
  needs and strategy

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2nd Plenary Meeting Main Conclusions (3)

• 6) Focus in the Real-Time Traffic and Travel
  Information is in making it happen at the
  European level - also in the cities
• On a short-term, building on the RDS/TMC services
• Innovative public-private business model required
• An European project is needed to secure access to
  public data and to develop European-wide services
• 7) Human-Machine Interaction presents a very
  complex problem for the introduction of
  in-vehicle systems, including nomadic devices
• HMI-related problems defined on the basis of the
  Member States reports
• Targeting amendment of the European Statement of
  Principles, and other measures if necessary

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2nd Plenary Meeting Main Conclusions (4)

• 8) Survey of ongoing RTD projects reveals lack of
  systems approach and confirms need for further
  work
• More than half of RTD efforts focus on the
  vehicle, with substantial gaps in funding of
  other areas
• Further analysis of the around 70 projects
  required
• Moving towards recommendations for the focus of
  further RTD and analysis of impacts/benefits
• 9) International Co-operation seen as an
  essential part of the eSafety initiative
• First analysis shows similar interest profiles in
  EU, USA and Japan
• Moving towards concrete co-operation in the
  selected priority topics

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2nd Plenary Meeting Main Conclusions (5)

• 10) Agreement on implementation Road Maps seen
  essential for the public sector investments and
  for user awareness
• Inventory of relevant eSafety systems which will
  reach the market by 2010 created (eSafety Matrix)
• Closely linked to other Working Groups (e.g. RTD,
  eCall, RTTI)
• Next Analyzing the cost/benefit and to work out
  realistic implementation scenarios for eSafety
  Systems

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Next Steps (1)

• The eSafety Forum
• Finalisation of the eSafety Forum 2003 Summary
  Report
• The eSafety Forum Workprogramme 2004 Existing
  and new Working Groups
• Two eSafety Forum Plenary Sessions in 2004
• A High-Level Meeting in 2004 (tbc)

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Next Steps (2)

• Other Actions
• The Commission Communication ICT for Safe and
  Intelligent Vehicles possible Council
  Conclusions
• Cost-benefit study started by the Commission
• eScope The eSafety Observatory
• Major IST Conferences 2004 Budapest 24-26 May,
  Nagoya 18-24 October

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eSafety

• Communication
• Information and Communication
• Technologies for Safe and Intelligent
• Vehicles
• Published on 15/09/03,
• Ref. COM(2003) 542
• Mail box
• INFSO-eSafety_at_cec.eu.int
• Web-site
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/programme
  s/esafety/index_en.htm