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ICTs and Improving ROAD SAFETY-How far?

ITU-T SG 12 Chairman: Kwame Baah-AcheamfuorLead Study Group on Driver Distraction & In-car Communications

WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety

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How we love ICTs

Video on Texting when Driving

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Distraction in Numbers

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ACTIVITY RISK OF CRASH

Dialing with Handheld Devices 3 TIMES

Listening or talking on Handheld devices 1.3 TIMES

Reaching for a moving object 9 TIMES

Looking at External Objects 3.7 TIMES

Reading 3 TIMES

APPLYING MAKEUP !!! 3 TIMES

Source: United States Department of Transport 2006

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Safety Advocates on Use of ICTs

Worldwide Safety and Health Advocates for their concern on driver distraction, have been successful with more than 40 countries to restrict or prohibit the use of handheld phones while driving.

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Automakers on Road Safety

Automakers, Service providers and High-tech companies are pushing forward to bring other potentially distracting services and gadgets, including access to the World Wide Web and e-mail, 3D maps/navigation and high-definition video, to the front seat.

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ITU and Road SafetyFG CARCOM Created in 2009 to encourage the participation in this

activity of members of other standards organizations involved in car and Telecommunications/ICT industries, including experts and individuals who may not be members of ITU.

FG Driver DistractionCreated in 2011 has been instrumental in raising

awareness around ITU-T activity on driver distraction and the scale of this workload, as well as in providing clear direction to ITU-T’s driver-distraction work plan.

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FG CARCOMDraft Recommendation P.VSSRWill guarantee a high quality speech communication in

cars and will lead to significantly reduced driver distraction due to poor audio (communicational) quality in cars.

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FG Distraction

G.SAM (Mechanisms for managing the situational awareness of drivers) will define mechanisms for prioritizing navigation

G.V2A (Communications interface between external applications and a Vehicle Gateway Platform) will define the communications interface between the app and the driver-vehicle interface (DVI)

P.UIA (User Interface requirements for Automotive applications) will recommend characteristics of the auditory social media message

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FG Distraction

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How you can contribute

Contributions from Member States as well as Industry Partners to progress and conclude standards whose implementation will avert driver distraction and ensure road safety.

Member States and industry partners to promote the use of safe interfaces and hands-free devices in vehicles and take action to eliminate technology-related distractions while driving.

Member States to promote national policies to encourage

the use of ICT in enhancing road safety.

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Wayforward

Partnership with the automotive sector and with automobile associations worldwide under the banner of the F.I.A. –  the International Automobile Federation 

Be our partner too

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Thank you for your attention

Be safe on the Roads with ICTs….

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