Meeting in Parma, Italy - 17 June 2004

Chaired by Mr Martin Rowell of Navteq, the meeting included participants from Europe, US, and Japan who discussed the international aspects of the eSafety initiative. Mr Juhani Jaaskelainen from the European Commission presented the European eSafety activities. Interventions from the US (Mr R Bishop) and Japan (Mr S Osawa from AHSRA and Mr H Makino of MLIT) showed that cooperation between activities should be strengthened in a number of areas.

The group made a prioritisation of the eSafety intercontinental cooperation fields and the result will be discussed within the eSafety Forum.  

The main priorities mentioned for the international eSafety cooperation are:

• Consolidation of accident data
• Global impact assessment of technologies
• Global principles for HMI
• Vehicle-Vehicle and Vehicle-Infrastructure specifications
• Standardisation and certification
• Legal issues
• Socio economic benefits
• Exchange of "Best Practice" and outreach

The next meeting will take place 20 October in Nagoya, Japan concurrent to the ITS World Congress 18-22 October 2004.

Agenda from the meeting	.doc (22 KB)
Minutes from the meeting	.doc (55 KB)