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I DRIVE SAFELY!: Traffic School Gets Drivers Back on the Road Safely With Avaya Solution
White Paper had a very basic telephone system in place and only limited methods to track its responsiveness to customer calls to its toll-free number and emails sent by way of the company's Web site. I DRIVE SAFELY! [24 Apr 2007]
Indian tech execs ponder problems ahead
News Attrition and salary increases are also taking their toll on margins, and the increased interest of multinationals such as Accenture and IBM, as well as the captive offshoring operations that have been set up, are... [26 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: Deutsche Telekom targets services
Comment Toll gates or taxing purely on fuel consumed - both currently in use - are judged too cumbersome or too imprecise by most higher-ups. You can see what I saw on an excursion with a crew from the company administering the... [02 Feb 2007]
Photos: Germany's road charging tech
Photo Toll Collect runs the road charging. For two years Germany has had an electronic road-charging system for heavy goods vehicles on the autobahn. If a driver is stopped, after checks show... [02 Feb 2007]
Strip clubs popular with biz travellers: Shock
News Missing the family and flight delays and cancellations were cited as the major reasons why business travel can take its toll on the soul, and 55 per cent of travellers said the most annoying fellow passenger on a flight... [28 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Road tax rage
Comment Forget about all the TV news reports you saw talking about making every road a toll road (an interesting image). I want to get my teeth into the subject of road charging... [09 Aug 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Life after DRM doesn't look so bad
Comment And it really is quite hard to see exactly why we should all be paying a toll to Microsoft every time we watch a film at home. Cycling is another alternative; as yet there is no road tax on bicycles and... [14 Feb 2006]
Leader: Driven by in-car connectivity
Leader Imagine RFID and other contactless chips for road toll payments - the sort of payments that are happening now in some cities and will be done via satellite in the future, we predict. There has long been... [06 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... [13 Dec 2005]
Is satellite car-toll tech ready for prime time?
News The price would depend on the level of congestion and satellite tracking would be used to enforce the toll. Since the start of the year, the satellite-based 'Toll Collect' system has been charging trucks... [06 Jun 2005]
Firefox growth rate slips again
News The Firefox browser continues to rack up incremental market share gains against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but security concerns may be taking their toll as the growth rate continues to slip. Chris Hofmann, Mozilla's... [11 May 2005]
Tech heart to future UK roads policy
News I have no killer idea in my head at the moment but we have trials going on [looking at car pooling and toll roads, for example] and we must plan journeys better. Dubbed a 'jam buster', 'highways tsar' and... [24 Jan 2005]
London trials £2.2m Congestion Charge smart card scheme
News London is set to begin a £2.2m trial of road toll-style smart card charging technology that could be extended as an enforcement tool in the congestion charging zone. The readings will be used to measure... [16 Nov 2004]
IBM proposes national congestion charging system
News A key plank of the government's flagship integrated transport policy could be under threat if it does not develop a single national technical platform for congestion charging and roll toll schemes, according to new... [12 Nov 2003]
Five years ago... Smartcards delay road toll trial
News The Leicester environmental road tolling scheme (Lerts) used smartcard technology and roadside microwave readers to toll car drivers entering the city. For years road traffic-reduction... [07 Jul 2003]
