During the lifetime period of the different FOTs carried out both at the National and European levels, there is a crucial need for a platform of knowledge exchange in order to let these individual FOT's benefit from each others' learning experiences as well as giving the European Commission an overview of the activities involved. This networking platform open to all stakeholders from public and private sectors will give a benchmarking overview of the range of successes in reaching societal benefits with ICT based functions and systems for road transport all over Europe. FOT-Net's prime goal is to establish a support action for strategic networking of existing and future National, European and Global FOTs (e.g. US and Japan). The action should include all stakeholder groups that play or will play an active and needed role in existing and future National, European and Global FOTs. The major objectives of FOT-Net are twofold. First FOT-Net will establish a European networking body for National, European and Global FOTs where all stakeholders from public and private sectors are represented. Then FOT-Net will contribute to improve significance, visibility, comparability and transferability of available FOT results at National and European level by promoting the implementation of a common FOT methodology (FESTA results).