Road user charging is presented as one of the most powerful transportation demand management tech... more Road user charging is presented as one of the most powerful transportation demand management technologies for the immediate future. Under a road pricing scenario, drivers would be levied a usage fee that is based on the distance traveled, the specific road or zone that is used, the degree of congestion at the time of use, and the class of vehicle used. This article describes how Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offers technology offer that can be effectively applied to a road pricing environment. It also looks at the issue of multipath errors, and particularly those occurring in urban canyons where GNSS is vulnerable. The article discusses how dual Global Positioning System (GPS)/Galileo receivers will assist GNSS receivers in dealing with the issue of imperfect positioning.
A number of countries experienced a significant decline in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) between 2... more A number of countries experienced a significant decline in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) between 2004 and 2008. Whether this is a permanent trend will influence transportation policy in terms of needed highway capacity and the increasing access to public transportation. More recent statistics indicate that VMT is again on the rise. The author believes that VMT may be in a plateau period and predicts that both VMT and automobility will continue to increase.
This report, released by the Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO.... more This report, released by the Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO.com), is applicable to any city with a population over 100,000. It details the interaction between two independent and competing markets for vehicle automation: household semi-automated vehicles and public-service robo-taxis and robo-shuttles. It examines how and why they compete and the implications for congestion, sprawl, parking, infrastructure, jobs, transit and other outcomes. EndOfDriving.org is a project of Grush Niles Strategic. We examine the problem of meeting the expected four-fold increase in worldwide demand for passenger miles traveled (2010-2050) using the same 1 billion registered vehicle count current in 2010. This project involves multiple transportation, urban, and social issues.
On the basis of arrangements currently used in telecommunications systems, this paper describes a... more On the basis of arrangements currently used in telecommunications systems, this paper describes a TDP (Time-Distance-Place) low-cost system for identifying road charges on all sections of a road network; billing road users appropriately; collecting payments at the designated rates; and crediting the providers of the roads on which the travel takes place; all without identifying the travelers. The data used by the system are generated within secure in-vehicle metering units, in response to location information received from the Global Positioning System (GPS). Charge calculations are based on time of journeys (“T”); distance travelled (“D”) and places in which the journeys are made (“P”). The amounts owed are collected by competing “Network Tolling Operators” (NTOs), which have no access to journey description data. The NTOs, in their turn, pay the appropriate road providers, in the manner of E-ZPass and similar systems today, revealing to them only the total volumes of traffic for w...
This article describes a technology that allows for infrastructure-free roadway network tolling. ... more This article describes a technology that allows for infrastructure-free roadway network tolling. In light of the recent rejection of a large-scale American congestion-type tolling scheme by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, authors present a means of collecting market-based prices from the 200 million motorists in the United States. It is pointed out that cellular telephone networks already meet many of the complex requirements that a nationwide network of vehicular on-board units (OBU) that market-based pricing would require- customer service facilities, back office billing, high system up time, banking, communication networking, and experience with a highly complex and large network of base units. The major problem with this system is ensuring driver privacy and anonymity in light of the tracking requirements that such a system necessarily entails.
The social evolution of automobility opposes the network and economic optimization logic we use t... more The social evolution of automobility opposes the network and economic optimization logic we use to promote road pricing. We need a new approach to switching to mileage-based. To be accepted by a majority of drivers, that new approach must respect need for automobility in the presentation of the arguments for road pricing.
Road user charging is presented as one of the most powerful transportation demand management tech... more Road user charging is presented as one of the most powerful transportation demand management technologies for the immediate future. Under a road pricing scenario, drivers would be levied a usage fee that is based on the distance traveled, the specific road or zone that is used, the degree of congestion at the time of use, and the class of vehicle used. This article describes how Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offers technology offer that can be effectively applied to a road pricing environment. It also looks at the issue of multipath errors, and particularly those occurring in urban canyons where GNSS is vulnerable. The article discusses how dual Global Positioning System (GPS)/Galileo receivers will assist GNSS receivers in dealing with the issue of imperfect positioning.
A number of countries experienced a significant decline in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) between 2... more A number of countries experienced a significant decline in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) between 2004 and 2008. Whether this is a permanent trend will influence transportation policy in terms of needed highway capacity and the increasing access to public transportation. More recent statistics indicate that VMT is again on the rise. The author believes that VMT may be in a plateau period and predicts that both VMT and automobility will continue to increase.
This report, released by the Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO.... more This report, released by the Residential & Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO.com), is applicable to any city with a population over 100,000. It details the interaction between two independent and competing markets for vehicle automation: household semi-automated vehicles and public-service robo-taxis and robo-shuttles. It examines how and why they compete and the implications for congestion, sprawl, parking, infrastructure, jobs, transit and other outcomes. EndOfDriving.org is a project of Grush Niles Strategic. We examine the problem of meeting the expected four-fold increase in worldwide demand for passenger miles traveled (2010-2050) using the same 1 billion registered vehicle count current in 2010. This project involves multiple transportation, urban, and social issues.
On the basis of arrangements currently used in telecommunications systems, this paper describes a... more On the basis of arrangements currently used in telecommunications systems, this paper describes a TDP (Time-Distance-Place) low-cost system for identifying road charges on all sections of a road network; billing road users appropriately; collecting payments at the designated rates; and crediting the providers of the roads on which the travel takes place; all without identifying the travelers. The data used by the system are generated within secure in-vehicle metering units, in response to location information received from the Global Positioning System (GPS). Charge calculations are based on time of journeys (“T”); distance travelled (“D”) and places in which the journeys are made (“P”). The amounts owed are collected by competing “Network Tolling Operators” (NTOs), which have no access to journey description data. The NTOs, in their turn, pay the appropriate road providers, in the manner of E-ZPass and similar systems today, revealing to them only the total volumes of traffic for w...
This article describes a technology that allows for infrastructure-free roadway network tolling. ... more This article describes a technology that allows for infrastructure-free roadway network tolling. In light of the recent rejection of a large-scale American congestion-type tolling scheme by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, authors present a means of collecting market-based prices from the 200 million motorists in the United States. It is pointed out that cellular telephone networks already meet many of the complex requirements that a nationwide network of vehicular on-board units (OBU) that market-based pricing would require- customer service facilities, back office billing, high system up time, banking, communication networking, and experience with a highly complex and large network of base units. The major problem with this system is ensuring driver privacy and anonymity in light of the tracking requirements that such a system necessarily entails.
The social evolution of automobility opposes the network and economic optimization logic we use t... more The social evolution of automobility opposes the network and economic optimization logic we use to promote road pricing. We need a new approach to switching to mileage-based. To be accepted by a majority of drivers, that new approach must respect need for automobility in the presentation of the arguments for road pricing.
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