Special Eurobarometer 267: Use of Intelligent systems in vehicles

DG Information Society and Media launched this Eurobarometer study that covered all 25 Member States. 24,815 citizens were interviewed face to face between 7 June and 12 July 2006 about their perception of intelligent vehicle systems and their usefulness.
Improving road safety, guaranteeing the efficiency of transport and making driving more economic and thus more environmentally friendly are the key challenges posed to road traffic today.
These challenges are truly pan-European: they affect all 25 Member States and call for a European-level solution. The intensity of these problems varies from country to country due to different levels of infrastructure and vehicle safety, driver behaviour and composition of the car fleet which in turn requires even deeper co-operation between all stake holders towards more harmonised regulations and infrastructures throughout Europe.
There are several ways to tackle the problems, among others intelligent vehicle systems, caused by the increasing volume of traffic:
1) Educating and training the drivers
2) Enforcing road safety rules
3) Improving the physical road infrastructure
4) Improving vehicle safety e.g. by encouraging the use of Intelligent Systems in vehicles.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer