Welcome to the eSafety website

For the benefit of road users and society in general, eSafety is working for a quicker development and increased use of smart road safety and eco-driving technologies. They are called 'smart' because they are based on the powers of computers and telecoms.

In 2008, road accidents killed 39.000 people in the EU, and 1.7 million got injured. Human error is involved in 95% of all traffic accidents! Road transport burns one quarter of the EU's overall energy consumption, and one fifth of the CO₂ emissions are caused by road vehicles.

'eSafety technologies' help reduce these negative effects of road transport. They bring down the number of road victims and reduce road traffic's energy consumption and CO₂ exhausts.

Future events

News:

2010
11/01	Press Release on EU-US Collaboration in Transport Research, with a focus on Cooperative Systems. See the website on the EU-US Collaboration of the the US's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) The press release and the website were published on the occasion of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Washington D.C., USA

2009
09/12	An Information Day on the 4th Call for Proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme (Competitiveness and Innovation Programme - CIP) will be held on 14 January 2010 in Brussels (Charlemagne building - rue de la Loi 170). See the agenda. See the draft ICT PSP Work Programme 2010. Objective 1.3 focus on the Energy efficient co-operative transport management systems (pages 11 & 12) Objective 1.4 explains how to support eCall's implementation based on Europe's single emergency number 112 (pages 12 & 13).
24/11	Opening of ICT Call 6. Under the heading 'ICT for the Mobility of the Future', we are looking for proposals on 'Field Operational Tests for Integrated Safety Systems and Co-operative Systems' and for proposals on 'ICT-based systems and services for Smart Urban Mobility and new Mobility Concepts'. We are also calling for submissions on 'Coordination and Support Actions' as well as on 'International cooperation'. For details, please go to ICT for the Mobility of the Future's site or to section 4.6 of Work Programme 2009/2010. The Work Programme is downloadable from the Call 6 page under the heading 'Information Package'.
18/11	An EU-US Joint Declaration on Research in Cooperative Systems has been signed in Washington, D.C. It aims to identify joint areas of cooperative systems research, and to support the development of global open standards for such cooperative systems. See photos of the signature event.
30/10	The eCall Summit : Time for deployment The 12th eSafety Forum Plenary meeting, Brussels, 29/10/2009.
27/10	The Intelligent Cargo Study ("Impact assessment on the introduction of intelligent cargo systems in transport logistics industry") analyses the potential of ICT to increase the efficiency, security and safety of freight transport. The study considers different scenarios for the paradigm shift from centralized to decentralized ICT services and identifies a migration path towards the most promising scenario. The study was conducted by PTV, Germany, and ECORYS, The Netherlands.
19/10	37th eSafety Forum Steering Group Meeting, Brussels, 6/10/2009 Read the draft minutes. The presentations are available here.
15/10	The Commission mandates the European standardisation bodies CEN, CENELEC and ETSI to develop standards for communicating cars (car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication). Read the mandate in DE, EN and FR.
01/10	3rd European eCall Implementation Platform meeting, Brussels. Read the summary of the meeting.
25/09	Final report of the WING study: Impact Analysis in the domain of ICT for Transport.
20- 25/09	16th ITS World Congress, Stockholm/Sweden Flash report on ICT for Transport's activities in Stockholm. Annex to the flash report. A video on Cooperative Systems as they were demonstrated in Stockholm.
09/09	GSM Association signs the eCall Memorandum of Understanding The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) List of MoU signatories. GSMA Europe Position paper on eCall. Read the European Commission's Press Release. View the pictures.

		View the VIDEO on the i2010 Intelligent Car Initiative.

		View a short TV feature from EURONEWS on 'Smart cars to help reduce road fatalities'. It is available in 7 languages.
Last update: 12/01/2010