Telematics applications for transport in Europe

Adopting the report by Mr Ulrich Stockmann (PSE, D), the European Parliament called for the Commission to review its action plan and carry out additional accompanying studies in order to rectify omissions. It recommended that a standing working party on telematics be set up and called for the consequences of the application of telematics on road users' health to be studied. It called for priority to be given to telematics projects in the field of multimodal integrated transport, non-motorized private transport, collective transport, urban public transport and environmentally-friendly modes of transport (rail and maritime and inland waterway transport). At a legislative level, the European Parliament called on the Commission to present a draft directive on standardization in the field of telematics applied to transport. The Commission was also called on to draw up a legal framework governing collaboration between various management levels (local authorities, regions, Member States, EU) and a list of obligations which services must comply with before being implemented. The report also called for: - the compatibility and interoperability of all components to be guaranteed and for telematics for the disabled to be promoted in public and collective transport; - the Commission to send the European Parliament a list of all the telematics projects which it is implementing or supporting in the transport sector and to implement a uniform train control system more quickly; - greater efforts to be made to implement the most recent technical innovations in the field of road safety and for the possibility of extending the action plan to combined transport to be studied.�