Communication Technologies for Vehicles: eCall

Carpooling and the Pan-European emergency call "eCall 112": Connected cars and their potential for environmental and transport policy

“…10 Shorter response times reduce congestion after any incident. As described by Iparraguirre and Brazalez (2016), the MSD standardised in CEN TS 15722:2015 comprises the optional data field 'number of passengers'. Note that:…”

The Economic Value of an Emergency Call System

“…The eCall system is part of the "Road Safety Strategy" which was launched by the European Union in 2010. The system is meant to work throughout the entire European Union based on the existing platform of a uniform emergency call number 112 [9], with the main goal to manage emergency calls. The general aim of the system's implementation can be summarized as "automating the notifications of traffic accidents from anywhere in the European Union and associated countries" [9].…”

“…This is a significant challenge given that alone in the year 2014, there have been approximately 26,000 people who died as a consequence of a car accident in the European Union. Yet, the system does not only aim at lowering the number of human casualties on roads; but it aims as well at reducing the number and the severity of injuries in general [9]. Moreover, the introduction of the eCall system is also an attempt to unify the in-vehicle emergency systems within the European Union.…”

“…Moreover, the introduction of the eCall system is also an attempt to unify the in-vehicle emergency systems within the European Union. As a matter of fact, many similar systems such as the "Volvo On Call" are operational throughout Europe [9]. However, these systems are voluntarily purchased by car-owners as optional add-on service and are not standard.…”

“…As indicated, the road towards an EU-wide implementation of the system was interrupted or postponed several times. However, the introduction of the EU "Road Safety Strategy" in 2010 marked the beginning of a more dynamic development [9]. One of the largest steps in ensuring a required level of preparedness of the European market was taken in 2011 when a pilot project co-founded by the European Union, referred to as the Harmonised eCall European Pilot (HeERO), was launched.…”