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Innovation
and road safety
For
public-private partnership
Concerns
for sustainable development and for improved
public safety, particularly road safety, are
high up on today's policy agenda in France and
throughout the world.
One
of the questions we must address is how to mobilize
innovation
to meet these challenges and achieve the goals
set for road traffic.
The initiative taken by the organizers of the Intermat
2003
Exhibition to open up an interchange and exhibition
area for the road sector gives us an opportunity
to present some of these innovations and make
them known beyond our borders through Isted.
These innovations concern real time information for all
those
concerned by roads, mobilization of companies towards
road safety and their staff towards accident prevention,
improvements in road surfacing products and
equipment, and targeting of road materials recycling processes towards
the objective of zero waste.
These
applications are all based on strengthened public-private
partnership
in which the impetus and support given
by public authorities are relayed by the dynamism
and
creativeness of companies.
The increasing demand for international cooperation can
draw
on ideas to be gathered from these few examples and
from the exhibitors at the Intermat 2003 Exhibition,
which
when tailored to the different contexts will be valuable
for the future.
Yves
Robichon,
Deputy
Director of Road
Safety and Traffic
Contents
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Innovation
and road safety - For public-private parnership
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Feature:
Safety
is becoming a major
challenge for public
policies, particularly
in the road
sector. The road
safety innovations
proposed
in this feature,
which are as
much political and
technical as social,
are having an
enabling effect on
public-private partnership.
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