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News Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, said it would lobby for strong technology representation on an advisory committee for SME access to public sector contracts but questioned why technology was omitted from the science...
[12 Mar 2008]
Case Study The UK government is fascinated as it eyes plans for a PAYD system to replace standard road tax discs. Tony Lovick, pricing actuary at NU, said a trial, using GPS-based IVUs (in-vehicle units) provided by Trafficmaster, began in November 2003 and...
[27 Nov 2007]
News Jobs wrote: "Even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a...
[07 Sep 2007]
News Since silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane discussed how motorists might try and beat road pricing plans in a recent blog, our virtual postbag has been brimming over with readers' responses. As Cochrane pointed out, concerns have already been...
[18 Jun 2007]
Comment How many people would have to do this to cripple the entire national road pricing system? Road pricing of up to $3 per mile at peak times - yes $3 per mile per car! Augment all of this with high taxes on road usage and fuel, and punitive parking...
[12 Jun 2007]
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 European Galileo satellite programme according to...
[06 Jun 2007]
News The government is pushing ahead with plans to introduce pay-as-you-drive road-pricing across the country, after announcing a draft bill to overhaul the UK's transport system. Under the Local Transport Bill, local authorities will be given powers to...
[23 May 2007]
News One likely application of the Galileo system is government road-pricing An ambitious European satellite network will need more public money if it is to get off the ground on time. The European Commission said the roadmap for Galileo needs a rethink...
[18 May 2007]
Leader Before rushing headlong into the implementation of road-pricing technology, politicians need to act on the wider issues of transport policy, and not simply crack down on motorists without giving them an option to change their travel choices.
[01 Dec 2006]
News Eddington said congestion-targeted road-pricing could be worth up to £28bn to the UK economy by 2025 and should be a question of "how, not if", although he admitted it is not feasible in the short-term.
[01 Dec 2006]
whitepaper This new, flexible working frontier brings many challenges for your business - in parallel with other factors such as changing demographics, and the impact of environmental measures such as road pricing.
[14 Nov 2006]
News Likely applications for Galileo once it is operational will include road pricing across the UK, from around 2014. The government is spending another €31m on the European Space Agency's development of the Galileo satellite navigation system.
[25 Aug 2006]
News Almost a third (31 per cent) of the 650 respondents said they believe the new system would see everybody paying more to drive in the UK, suggesting it's a further example of stealth taxing.silicon.com reader Tim Haines wrote: "There's already a...
[16 Aug 2006]
News Alexander wants new powers to ensure any local road-pricing initiatives are interoperable and consistent with a national framework. The letter said: "Current legislation offers very limited powers for pricing on the trunk-road network outside of...
[07 Aug 2006]
News The government thinks that it could be feasible to use Galileo for road pricing by 2014. While no government that wants to get re-elected is likely to make road pricing compulsory in the short term, another way satellite technology could become...
[27 Jul 2006]
Leader There are actually lots of really important decisions - such as the introduction of ID cards, or satellite-based road pricing, or NHS modernisation - that are only achievable through the use of cutting-edge tech.
[31 May 2006]
News The government initially announced the national road pricing plans last year as an attempt to tackle growing congestion problems. And we need to see how emerging technology could be used for road pricing.
[11 May 2006]
News According to Dell's Eric Greffier, the product is aimed at both large corporates with a significant proportion of remote staff or 'road warriors' and SMEs who may have the occasional need of remote-working capability but who don't have a data...
[25 Jan 2006]
News Seven local authorities are sharing £7m to explore ways to tackle local congestion and help develop government plans on road pricing. Last year the government's road pricing feasibility study recommended that schemes should be piloted to test...
[29 Nov 2005]
whitepaper The reason is that greater road capacity - which initially permits greater speeds - tends to attract motorists who previously used other roads, traveled at off-peak times, took public transit, or moved farther out in the suburbs.
[05 Jul 2005]
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