The development of Intelligent Transport Systems applications may have the potential to significantly improve Road Safety. FEMA is therefore addressing ITS, within the EU e-safety forum and the UN-ECE Working Groups, in conjunction with riders' organisations (AMA, MRF, FIM), the motorcycle industry (ACEM, IMMA) and the IHVO.

The present focus of ITS is on four-wheeled vehicles. Some ITS applications will need specific development to enable them to be used on motorcycles. The use of ITS applications which can influence the behaviour of a motorcycle - for example by applying the brakes or regulating the fuel management system - should always be optional. They should only be considered when it has been demonstrated that they will not destabilise a motorcycle in a range of conditions and circumstances. Because of PTWs' dynamics, some ITS applications will not be able to be adapted to motorcycles, or may not be cost effective if it should be possible.

FEMA demands that the recognition of the principle that "where a vehicle or a category of vehicles are not compatible with an ITS application, it is accepted that the vehicles' incompatibility will not result in its being excluded from any part of the road system that utilises that ITS application". Traffic management applications of ITS should, therefore, be developed to include motorcycles and could usefully be adapted to give them priority over other vehicles.

For road pricing applications of ITS, while the technology to include motorcycles is feasible, a political decision should be made to exempt them from road pricing as part of the solution to many traffic problems which exist throughout Europe.
Another principle FEMA demands to be recognised is that "no ITS application should be developed if it can put at higher risk a specific group of vehicles or users".