Mapping the way to safer roads

Creation date: 10 November 2006

eSafety stakeholders meeting in Brussels on 14 November identified the critical issues impeding large-scale implementation of dynamic traffic management and proposed a concrete road map to remove and solve these issues.

The “Implementation Road Map for Dynamic Traffic Management – Vehicle Systems Co-operation” Workshop was organised by the Implementation Road Map Working Group of the eSafety Forum. Set up in 2003, the working group aims to identify the technical and economical potential of intelligent vehicle safety systems, as well as the topics and timetable for possible infrastructure improvements.
 
The first version of the implementation road maps was published in October 2005. The road maps will now be expanded, detailed and made more concrete in a series of workshops.

The 14 November workshop started off with a presentation on “A vision on traffic management now and in 2020”. Six case studies on “Use of vehicle data in traffic management and use of traffic management data in vehicle systems” were presented and discussed. In the afternoon session the discussion centred on the “Main issues and obstacles in dynamic traffic management – vehicle system co-operation” and on the “Detailed road maps for solving the issues and obstacles”. Parallel working groups concentrated on specific issues/obstacles. The workshop concluded with an overview of the working groups´ results and overall conclusions.