eSafety Forum calls for increased efforts to implement eCall

Creation date: 11 December 2006

More than 100 eSafety stakeholders came together in Brussels on 8 November 2006 for the 6th eSafety Forum Plenary to discuss how to move ahead with the Intelligent Car Initiative and eSafety in Europe.
 
The eSafety Forum is a joint platform involving over 150 active members representing all road safety stakeholders. The Forum’s general objective is to promote the development, deployment and use of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems, so-called eSafety systems.
 
Highlights of the meeting included the presentation of the 3rd Commission Communication 'Bringing eCall back on track' and the presentation and adoption of the ‘Information and Communication Technologies for Mobility Strategic Research Agenda’. Mr Rudolf Strohmeier, Head of European Commissioner Viviane Reding’s Cabinet, made a keynote address stressing the importance of bringing the benefits of the information society to the citizens. Mr Strohmeier pointed to eCall as a good example of how this can be achieved, but cautioned that the target of full-scale roll-out of eCall by 2010 would not be accomplished if the Member States did not step up their efforts to upgrade their emergency service centres.

The eSafety Working Groups presented the latest results of their activities, and two new Working Groups were presented: Service oriented architectures and ICT for clean mobility.

More information about the 6th eSafety Forum Plenary meeting.