IMPLEMENTING ENHANCED EMERGENCY SERVICES FOR THE EUROPEAN CITIZEN

The rapid adoption of mobile communication technology in Europe and the availability of the internet via mobile phones provide new opportunities for location-dependent services. These can be used to enhance the safety and security of European citizens, particularly if the common emergency number (112) becomes more widely adopted. Automatic location of emergency calls and multilingual support should become the norm, backed up by proposals for a new telecommunications regulatory framework. However, permanent surveillance of the whereabouts of European citizens via their mobile phones is considered unacceptable and a European Commission Telecoms Data Protection Directive is proposed. The establishment of a co-ordination group to facilitate these changes is described. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • KOOLEN, L
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS HELD TURIN, ITALY, 6-9 NOVEMBER, 2000
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Emergencies; Global Positioning System; Incident detection; Intelligent transportation systems; International; Internet; Legislation; Mobile telephones; Surveillance
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 2184: Emergency; 8034: Europe; 9126: Global positioning system; 1632: Incident detection; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 9034: International; 8585: Internet; 1556: Legislation; 9101: Surveillance; 390: Telephone
• Subject Areas: Law; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00937755
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Feb 5 2003 12:00AM