Voluntary industry agreement for the bus industry on Geofencing

Important results from the project

Objective: To create the conditions for an industry agreement to use geofencing to achieve common climate, traffic safety and work environment goals. Sub-objective: - Mapping of objective with the ambition to create common target images for the bus industry - Mapping of what an industry agreement for geofencing can mean for climate goals, increased understanding and knowledge transfer regarding geofencing, traffic safety goals and working conditions - Gather the industry via some large actors to investigate interest in common objective and an industry agreement if Geofencing

Expected long term effects

The conclusion is that there are good opportunities for a voluntary industry agreement for Geofencing in the bus industry. An industry agreement could: - Accelerate the implementation of technology for speed compliance and increased traffic safety - Influence technology choice and technology development towards more cost-effective solutions with less hardware requirements - Lay the foundation for much-needed work for better quality of data to evaluate speed compliance and road safety - Be part of the work to develop new measures and new methods for measuring traffic safety

Approach and implementation

The preliminary study has focused particularly on the execution side of the bus industry, the bus companies based on the assessment that they have the best conditions to initiate an agreement. The analysis work has been very much about understanding the conditions for the bus companies in general. Challenges with implementing geofencing as from their perspective and ongoing road safety work. The conclusions have been that the work going forward should be about preventing regulations, avoiding procurement processes and focusing on common goals between authorities and bus companies.