Newsletter 22.03.2012

Dear Madam / Sir,

We would like to inform you about a whole range of things:

• We are on Twitter now! Please follow us at ICT4Transport_EU;
• The Intelligent Car website has been re-launched with a complete new look and feel: www.ec.europa.eu/intelligentcar. More language versions to follow;
• TRA 2012 is approaching fast, and the final programme is now available at http://www.traconference.eu/. Please register to this important transport conference!
• Four "Smart connected electro-mobility" projects were launched at the European Parliament, Brussels, on 8 February 2012. Please go to  www.ec.europa.eu/esafety 08/02/2012 for more info;
• Take a look at the 40-second video on eCall as part of the Internet of things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUYBQQU7VCu8M6djxI4dvpIg&feature=player_detailpage&v=lkIXHzcU5XA;
• ICarSupport has published an ITS Standardisation Handbook: http://www.icarsupport.eu/assets/News/iCar-SupportStandardization-handbook.pdf. We recommend that all FP7 projects make use of it as soon as standardisation comes into play;
• A coordination day of all Field Operational Test projects (FOTs) focusing on Cooperative Systems will be held in Brussels on 25 May 2012. More info will soon be available at www.fot-net.eu;
• The EuroFOT final event is going to take place in Brussels on 26 & 27 June 2012. Please save the date and find more info on www.eurofot-ip.eu;
• Slovakia is organising a FP7 Networking & Partnering event in Bratislava in mid-May: http://b2match.eu/fp7connections2012;
• the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has put driver Distraction Guidelines up for comment: http://www.distraction.gov/download/dot-pdf/Distraction_Guidlines_Feb_15_2012_for_web_posting.pdf.

Please follow us on Twitter (ICT4transport_EU) and keep in touch with the eSafety website.

Best regards,
Juhani Jääskeläinen
Head of Unit 'ICT for Transport'
European Commission
Directorate-General Information Society and Media
infso-g4@ec.europa.eu