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Editorial
France, a package
response
Today's applications of telematics
to transport offer a wide range of products and services ranging
from travel demand management to traffic control and user information
systems.
Many industrialists the world over are already present in this rapidly-expanding
market (VERTIS programmes in Japan, ITS in the United States and the
European Commission programmes).
These initiatives, which result in road safety improvements, free-flowing
traffic, motoring comfort and a reduction in environmental nuisance,
have received the support of the public authorities with a view to integrating
them into a coherent technical architecture and institutional framework.
The Fourth World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, organised
last October in Berlin, showed that several products and services are
now operational and ready for large-scale deployment.
There is a growing list of projected systems and services: in-vehicle
navigation systems, electronic fee collection, automatic incident detection
systems, anti-collision and driver assistance systems, etc.
During this congress, by bringing together this sector's public and private
actors under the same roof of the French pavilion, France demonstrated
the dynamism of its supply which provides a package response to road
telematics problems.
Alain Bodon,
Interministerial Delegate for Road Safety
Director of Road Safety and Traffic
Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing
Contents
- France, a package response
- Feature: Towards a "more
intelligent" highway
It is no longer enough for today's response to traffic
growth to merely consist in building roads. Hence the need
to optimise the existing transport systems.
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