2. INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Executive Summary is arranged in six sections.
The first section, 2.1 Context of Environment Telematics in Europe, introduces the role of telematics and summarises the main driving forces and mechanisms leading to their use in Europe. This section is meant to "set-the-scene" and define telematics' value and role in supporting the implementation of EU policies, particularly with regard to the environment.
The second section, 2.2 Good Practices in Environment Telematics, introduces, in table form, the 12 applications surveyed. The tables include the name of each application, the environmental issues the application addresses and the nature of their funding.
Sections 2.3-2.7 summarise the main results, conclusions and other attributes of case-studies and provides additional analysis. The first two sections look to answer the question: "Why implement telematics applications?" while the latter two consider "How to implement telematics applications." These questions are also used to subdivide Sections 2.3-2.7 into two parts. An attempt has been made to provide as much "value-added" and useful summary information as possible.
Section 2.3 examines the applications' Relevance to Central and Eastern Europe, particularly with regard to the environmental problems of the region. Section 2.4 highlights the Environmental Benefits to be gained from the use of such specialised applications. Section 2.5 considers the Implementation Framework and addresses the technical requirements for application transfer, while Section 2.6 Lessons Learned, summarises project experiences related to their management, legal frameworks and expectations of the use of telematics.
These four themes were considered to be most relevant to the target audience (public authorities in CEE), and are chosen as the best means to respond to the needs identified in CAPE's surveys of the CEE region.
Each of the above sections is arranged in a broadly similar format, and each discusses applications and issues respective to the four key priority areas identified by CAPE for environment telematics (waste and contaminated sites management tools, environmental monitoring, emergency management applications and tools facilitating public access to information). Section 2.3, on "Relevance to Central and Eastern Europe" summarises CEE environmental problems, independent of the attributes of the 12 case-studies. Sections 2.4 on "Environmental Benefits" and 2.5, on "Implementation Framework," detail case-study attributes, according to the environmental issues they support. This means case studies are addressed by environmental theme, and in the order shown in Table One overleaf. Attributes are addressed on a project-by-project basis, largely because of their heterogeneous nature and the difficulty in summarising key issues. (It is also assumed this is the most useful means of providing access for the expert and/or decision-maker with a specific interest). Section 2.6 Lessons Learned, rather than separated by priority areas, summarises a number of key project management issues that were commonly raised amongst all projects, and therefore is issue-based.
The main goal of the Executive Summary is to summarise the
key results of the surveyed applications and to serve as an introduction
for the reader to the more detailed information provided within
the case studies themselves on the subsequent pages.
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