The SAFESPOT European Integrated Project is co-funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies and starts its activities on the design and development of cooperative systems for road safety in 2006. The project, promoted by EUCAR (the research association of the Car Manufacturers), will last four years, it is coordinated by Centro Ricerche Fiat, it includes 50 partners from 12 different European countries (Italy, Germany, France, UK, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Hungary) among car makers, suppliers, road operators, service providers and research centres. The main aim of the project is to understand and assess, trough test in real condition, the potential of the cooperative approach in term of road transport safety improvement. This paper is an overall description of the project aims and objectives and addresses the first phase of the SAFESPOT project activities, namely the definition of the relevant use cases and scenarios of applications (A). For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD E212343.
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