Road telematic systems (in other words ITS, or Intelligent Transport Systems, according to English usage) have been under development for several years. The offspring of an alliance between computing and telecommunications, such systems make new advances possible in many domains, including: • Improving the overall efficiency of the transport system, • Controlling mobility, • Reducing nuisance, • Making travel safer, • And, of course, improving road safety. Using telematics, new perspectives open up for road safety, and we can already draw many lessons - some from our own country and some from abroad. This report emphasises the contribution of such systems to road safety. In particular, the following applications have been identified as the most promising: • Reducing offences using automated policing/enforcing; • Combating alcohol and loss of concentration; • Reducing warning delays, including for isolated accidents; • Intelligent speed adaptation (ISA); • Incident detection and management. The detailed report then moves on to “brakes” on the development of the systems in question, dis-cusses some of the potential adverse effects to be avoided, then gives a number of recommendations. Pointers are then given to some of the most interesting avenues for deployment of the applications deemed to be the most interesting. Finally, a conclusion sums up the report and provides a few ideas for taking the debate forward. A bibliography rounds off the text. (Author/publisher)
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