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RSS congestion chargeManchester on the road to high tech transport
News The city has secured £1.5bn of government funding to significantly improve its public transport, which includes the implementation of a London-style Congestion Charge scheme in 2013. In addition to the government funding, £1.2bn will be made... [10 Jun 2008]
Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists
News A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could benefit from the technology. Professor John Tyrer, professor of optical instrumentation at Loughborough... [26 Feb 2008]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Former Andersen and Deloitte management consultant Granger took on the NHS IT role in 2002 after delivering the London Congestion Charge scheme. The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the... [05 Dec 2007]
IBM snaffles Congestion Charge contract
News Transport For London (TfL) has awarded a contract to IBM to manage the systems that run the Congestion Charge and Low Emission Zone schemes in London. According to a TfL spokeswoman, IBM was selected as the preferred bidder because it was... [26 Oct 2007]
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News The former Andersen and Deloitte management consultant came to the NHS IT post on the back of his successful stint delivering the London Congestion Charge scheme, becoming the UK's highest-paid civil servant - a silicon.com Freedom of Information... [18 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing
Comment Unfortunately all efforts to sort out public transport have seen no significant improvements and in many areas the situation is critical, especially in London where it seems to me the congestion charge has failed to improve traffic flows. [12 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: Deutsche Telekom targets services
Comment Or even local representatives from bodies such as Transport for London, the people behind the soon-to-be-extended Congestion Charge. This week, as I mentioned in my last blog, saw me in Germany. I was really interested to find out all about that... [02 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: A 30,000ft view of the CIO
Comment It's a subject I know always interests our readers, from our past exclusive look behind the scenes at London's Congestion Charge nerve centre to speculation on how the government might try to run some kind of national pay-as-you-drive road tax... [30 Jan 2007]
Leader: Let's not rush into road charging
Leader But in the fifteen or so years since he wrote it congestion has gotten so much worse that the comparison doesn't quite hold anymore. Few people would disagree that something needs to be done about road congestion. [01 Dec 2006]
'Red light' warnings for government IT projects rise
News Projects deemed to have been successful include the pension credit system, the London Congestion Charge and the Department for Work and Pensions' £824m payment modernisation programme, which enabled pensions and benefits to be paid directly into... [16 Nov 2006]
'Extreme Big Brother fears to become a reality'
News Cars linked to global satellite navigation systems, which will provide the quickest route to avoid current congestion, automatically debit the mileage charge from bank accounts and allow police to monitor the speed of all cars and to track... [01 Nov 2006]
Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies
News Current congestion charging technology is too expensive to roll out everywhere, while GPS is not accurate enough to use to charge motorists, he said. The answer to congestion is not to add more and more roads said Begg, until last year chairman of... [27 Jul 2006]
Federated identity 'can transform e-government'
News They may be a home owner, a voter, a congestion charge payer, a customer for street sweeping and all these identities may be separate. Leading public sector IT bosses have told silicon.com they would welcome moves by the UK government to adopt... [22 Feb 2006]
Photos: Egypt follows Bangalore's offshore lead
Photo On the physical infrastructure side there are more Smart Villages planned but travelling through the congestion in Cairo itself is still a painfully time-consuming exercise. Ancient Pharaohs and pyramids may be what Egypt is most famous for but the... [10 Feb 2006]
London C-Charge smart tagging and tracking trial extended
News Transport for London (TfL) is set to extend the trial of road toll-style car-tracking tags that could be used to deduct the Congestion Charge fee automatically from motorists driving into the centre of London. [13 Dec 2005]
