Committed to Connecting the World International Telecommunication Union WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety ICTs and Improving ROAD SAFETY-How far? ITU-T SG 12 Chairman: Kwame Baah- Acheamfuor Lead Study Group on Driver Distraction & In-car Communications
ICTs and Improving ROAD SAFETY-How far?. ITU-T SG 12 Chairman: Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor Lead Study Group on Driver Distraction & In-car Communications. How we love ICTs. Video on Texting when Driving. Distraction in Numbers. Source : United States Department of Transport 2006. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Committed to Connecting the World
InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
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
Committed to Connecting the World
How we love ICTs
Video on Texting when Driving
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WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
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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
WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
Committed to Connecting the World
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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WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
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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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WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
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FG Distraction
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WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving Road Safety
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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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WTISD 2013 ICTs and improving 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