road charging
RSS road chargingIBM Case Study: The City of Stockholm
White Paper Road-use charging systems must demonstrate a high degree of accuracy. Stockholm wanted to reduce both the number of traffic jams in the city and the municipality's air pollution levels. An inefficient... [11 Jun 2008]
Manchester on the road to high tech transport
News Manchester is aiming to develop a world class transport system complete with high tech road charging technology and travel smartcards. The road charging technology will... [10 Jun 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News A fund to develop road-charging technology, with plans to invite tenders to test the technology next year. Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, said it would lobby for strong... [12 Mar 2008]
Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists
News The dtech cameras are elevated so they have a three-quarter vantage point of vehicles on the road and are therefore able to get a view of any front and rear passengers, said Tyrer - who added the technology is "very"... [26 Feb 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet Well the UK has plans to use it for electronic 'pay per mile' road use charging by 2014 as it's cheaper than other tech available and more accurate than GPS. Well, the EU argues that satellites have... [28 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore
Comment I have just been challenged about some of the statements in my 12 June 2007 blog about the possibility of jamming GPS signals to avoid any future road charging schemes. Written on the Ipswich to London... [12 Dec 2007]
Mobile tracking tech to take off in Europe
News It has been mooted the British government might employ wireless tracking technology for its proposed road charging projects. Business needs and personal security concerns will contribute to the tech... [10 Dec 2007]
Motorists hit back on road pricing
News And silicon.com readers - many clearly very unhappy at the prospect of new methods of road charging - came up with a few ideas of their own about how people might want to cheat the system, from "stick a... [18 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing
Comment It might go like this: month one of road charging sees around 1,500 jammers deployed, month two sees the figure rise to 3,000 and month three to 4,500. Seems to me GPS road... [12 Jun 2007]
Spam busting plan to make businesses pay
News Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam. Goodmail Systems, which provides a service called CertifiedEmail, has signed up... [07 Jun 2007]
Road-pricing satellites get European thumbs up
News The UK government has made significant investment into Galileo and hopes to use it to develop a satellite tracking road charging scheme, which has divided public opinion. EU citizens are backing the... [06 Jun 2007]
Controversial green plans could cripple your car
News Proposed 'black boxes' which could be installed in all UK vehicles as part of road-charging plans may also be linked to a mechanism within car engines which would disable the vehicle if it exceeded a... [31 Mar 2007]
Photos of the month - February 2007
Photo For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for heavy goods vehicles on the autobahn. Honda's new Civic Type-R (above) is one of numerous cars now equipped with iPod capability.... [01 Mar 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News Road-charging protest crashes PM's website But Joe Public also made an impact as the online petition against the proposed 'pay-as-you-drive' road charge scheme crashed the 10 Downing... [28 Feb 2007]
Leader: Are e-petitions good for democracy?
Leader If you've been involved in the fierce debate on the government's controversial road-charging plans or the ID card scheme, there's a good chance you have indeed got mail from the Prime Minister sitting in... [20 Feb 2007]
