In-car systems ensure that vehicles become more and more an integral part of the traffic and transport system. Since the number of actually implemented in-car systems grows each year, the authorities are confronted with dilemmas concerning vehicle electronics and road traffic telematics and their impact on road safety. The issue, however, has become more fundamental as it is not restricted to the vehicle any longer. Vehicle electronics and road traffic telematics interfere in the relationships in the classical triangle human-vehicle-road and the opportunities and threats that may follow from this. The project WAVE is a first attempt to deal with this symbiosis. In WAVE policy makers, researchers, manufacturers, operators of telecommunication services, interest groups and branch organisations co-operate. In this paper the background, goals and preliminary results of WAVE are expounded.
Abstract