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Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall

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...

Tags: budget, public sector, sme, innovation

[12 Mar 2008]

How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive

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...

Tags: norwich union, teradata, road pricing, driver

[27 Nov 2007]

Mac faithful up in arms about iPhone price cut

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...

Tags: steve jobs, ipod, apple, iphone

[07 Sep 2007]

Motorists hit back on road pricing

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...

Tags: reader comments, peter cochrane, charges, pay-as-you-go

[18 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing

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...

Tags: peter cochrane, gps, road pricing

[12 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 European Galileo satellite programme according to...

Tags: gps, satellite, sat nav, europe

[06 Jun 2007]

UK pay-as-you-drive fuelled by local plan

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...

Tags: pay as you drive, road pricing

[23 May 2007]

Road-pricing satellites need more cash

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...

Tags: galileo

[18 May 2007]

Leader: Let's not rush into road charging

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.

Tags: satellite car tracking

[01 Dec 2006]

Pay-per-mile road charging 'will raise £28bn'

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.

Tags: sir rod eddington

[01 Dec 2006]

Mobile Networking: Come on In, the Water's Fine

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.

Tags: network design, patterns, flexible working, legislation

[14 Nov 2006]

More cash for road-pricing satellites

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.

Tags: galileo

[25 Aug 2006]

Pay-as-you-drive plan panned

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]

Pay-as-you-drive 'black box' cars proposed

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...

Tags: road-charging, douglas alexander

[07 Aug 2006]

Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies

Euro satellite navigation takes to the skies

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: Why politicians can't ignore IT

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.

Tags: goverment, minister, ecommerce

[31 May 2006]

Satellite-tracking road-use charging gets green light

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.

Tags: douglas alexander, department for transport

[11 May 2006]

Super 3G in laptops: A good deal, faster?

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...

Tags: dell, vodafone, 3g, hsdpa

[25 Jan 2006]

More money for high-tech road pricing

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...

Tags: pay-as-you-drive road tax

[29 Nov 2005]

Congestion Pricing for Highways

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.

Tags: performance budgeting and management, united states, road, congestion

[05 Jul 2005]

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