for the deployment and improvement of single ITS (see CEP Overview): – Road safety - In order to reduce the number of road deaths the Commission wishes to prescribe in particular “driver assistance [...] traffic management and the use of parking facilities. – Use of road, traffic and travel data - Currently, data on the condition of the road network, which is required for digital mapping, and infor- mation [...] (2) Guidelines relating to the minimum quality requirements for road and traffic data ensure the geographic continuity of ITS based on road and traffic data. Cons: (1) There is a risk that the Commission
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facing road transport. The general objective of this proposal is to establish a framework to accelerate and coordinate the deployment and use of Intelligent Transport Systems applied to road transport [...] context The increasing congestion on our transport system (freight road transport is expected to increase by 55% and passenger road transport by 36 % by 2020) and the related energy consumption and negative [...] the Trans-European Transport Network Programme. One of the key proposals under i2010 is the Intelligent Car Initiative which aims to reduce road accidents, congestion and gridlock, and to lower fuel
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passengers by road in order to harmonise the conditions of competition between modes of inland transport, especially with regard to the road sector, and to improve working conditions and road safety. This [...] Whereas: (1) In the field of road transport, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 of 20 December 1985 on the harmonisa- tion of certain social legislation relating to road transport (4) sought to harmonise [...] between modes of inland transport, espe- cially with regard to the road transport sector, and to improve working conditions and road safety. Progress in these areas should be safeguarded and extended.
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Since 1969, the European Union (EU) has laid down social legislation in the field of road transport to improve road safety and drivers’ working conditions, and to ensure fair competition among transport [...] COM(2009)225. EN 4 EN EU legislation as one of ‘the most serious infringements’ within the broader list of infringements to commercial road transport rules6. But without harmonising a minimum [...] OBJECTIVES OF EU INITIATIVE (9) The overall aims of road transport social legislation (the rules on driving time and rest periods) are to improve road safety and drivers’ working conditions and to ensure
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such equipment. 2.4.5. Citizens/road users All road users are put at greater risk of injury when road safety is compromised. This is particularly true of road traffic accidents involving vehicles [...] asing reality that road transport within the EU is transnational in nature. International road freight transport accounted for about one third (or 612 billion tkms) of total road freight transport in [...] thanks to less frequent checks. 5.3.2. Impact on road safety It should be underlined that road safety is also one of the main objectives of the social road transport legislation, as explained above. The
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1.2. Condition of safety- belts/buckles. Visual inspection and by operation. (a) Mandatory safety-belt missing or not fitted. (b) Safety-belt damaged. (c) Safety-belt not in accordance with the [...] a static brake testing machine and/or during a road test with a decelerometer. Brake inoperative on one side or in the case of testing on the road, the vehicle deviates excessively from a straight [...] t clearance to road wheel. (c) Not in accordance with the requirements(1).. 7. OTHER EQUIPMENT 7.1. Safety-belts/buckles and restraint systems 7.1.1. Security of safety- belts/buckles mounting
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se" Department of Transport (UK, 2008), – DEKRA Road Safety Report 2008 – Strategies for preventing accidents on Europe's roads, – DEKRA Road Safety Report on Trucks 2009, [...] Communication on 'Towards a European road safety area: policy orientations on road safety for 2011-202017', proposed to further halve the overall number of road fatalities in the Union by 2020, starting [...] commercial road transport activities as well as provisions on a vehicle registration procedure to ensure that vehicles which constitute an immediate risk to road safety are not used on roads. (4) A number
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competences, one in seven young people leave education and training too early. Around 50% reach medium qualifications level but this often fails to match labour market needs. Less than one person in three [...] now increasing twice as fast as it did before 2007 – by about two million every year compared to one million previously. The combination of a smaller working population and a higher share of retired [...] decade: – Our economies are increasingly interlinked. Europe will continue to benefit from being one of the most open economies in the world but competition from developed and emerging economies is
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Issues Causes of the debt crisis in the Eurozone ► The indebtedness of public budgets is just one of the problems with which the distressed Euro- states are currently struggling. The overall problem [...] reviewed regularly; state bonds bought by the ESM are not privileged in the case of insolvency. ► The road ahead to a debt union is clear. The ESM will become a bottomless pit for the northern European countries
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be regularly submitted to periodic “roadworthiness tests” in order to ensure that vehicles on the road “remain roadworthy and safe” (Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2). – According to the Commission, technical [...] (Art. 7 (1) in conjunction with Annex III). – Inspectors must attribute to each deficiency detected one of the following three levels of severity (Art. 7 (2)), upon which the follow-up usability of the [...] not need” to be re-tested - “Major deficiencies“ affect the safety of vehicles or threaten other road users. The competent authority – testing centres are not authorised – decides under which conditions
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