EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIANS WARN OF SLOW UPTAKE IN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) institutions and national governments must take a proactive role to publicise the usefulness and availability of intelligent transport systems, to boost demand and ultimately lower costs, members of the European Parliament say.
Its transport committee has backed a detailed report warning that despite the sophistication and proven worth in safety terms of in-vehicle intelligent systems, European "penetration rates remain very low in relation to their potential."
This is particularly the case in the poorer EU ...
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