The area of road telematics and driving assistance systems is characterised by a fast technological development and a strong competition in the industrial world between Europe, Japan and the USA. The success of the deployment of these new products needs, beyond technological research efforts, strong and continuous actions in the domains of human factors.
Integration of European scientific research capacities on user/system interactions applied to road transport through the HUMANIST NoE will allow:
 to increase Societal Benefits of ITS implementation by taking into account the heterogeneity of users population,
to harmonise Road Safety and ITS approaches among Members States,
to face the international challenge,
to contribute to standards and to policy developments,
to strengthen potential inputs to R&D European industries,
to react quickly to any new technological developments by structuring common knowledge databases, identifying knowledge gaps, avoiding redundancy and duplication of research activities.
The knowledge gathered and produced by the HUMANIST Consortium will contribute to the eSafety initiative, which is a joint industry-public sector initiative for improving road safety by using new information and Communication technologies. Human-Machine Interaction was identified as a priority area for the implementation of the eSafety WG Recommendations to support the development, deployment and use of intelligent integrated road safety systems. HUMANIST will bring input to the HMI Working Group in order to develop further recommendations.
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