General News: eSafety Observers to meet in Lisbon

Date: 30 November 2007

6 December 2007 event to provide annual overview of national eSafety activities.

eSafety stakeholders representing national interests are set to converge in Lisbon 6-7 December 2007 for their yearly European-wide Observers meeting. Involving over 15 Member States, the meeting will focus on three central areas of eSafety activities: Real-time traffic and travel information (RTTI), deployment, and cooperative systems.

The meeting is organised by the eSafety Support project with the support of Portuguese infrastructure operator BRISA. The fifth in an annual series of European-level meetings, it gives participants the opportunity to cooperate and share experiences on key issues relating to eSafety. It caps off a successful year of Regional Observers meetings held in Delft/Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Brno, Czech Republic which allowed participants to discuss and debate eSafety issues with the local and regional stakeholders.

The meeting will feature high-level remarks by Paulo Marques Augusto, President of the Portuguese National Authority for Road Safety, and presentations by the European Commission. A technical visit to the BRISA traffic management centre will complement the meeting’s discussions by offering a glimpse into its Lisbon operations.

Presentations and information from the meeting will be available on the eSafety Support website, www.esafetysupport.org.