LIMITED ROAD CAPACITY EXTENTION BY LEGISTATION

Another way to reduce traffic congestion is by improving or adjusting the current legislation. Traffic congestion can still be much reduced by better traffic management and adequate congestion prevention. In cases where there are no external parties involved and the governments (or her contractors) are the only parties, legislation is maybe too heavy a word. 

LIMITED ROAD CAPACITY EXTENTION BY INVESTMENTS

In the light of the coming ICT wave extension of the overall road capacity is investing in the past. Just as investing in water roads in the beginning of the last century was a bad investment at a moment that the world was already changing to road traffic, investing in overall road capacity in the beginning of this century is a bad investment. The times are changing much more quickly than one hundred years ago. The coming ICT wave will have as a result that within 5 years from now (so before 2007) it will be possible to get speed tickets on the highways to the major cities of the world in both the morning and the evening rush. This coming ICT wave will reduce office traffic enormously and will reduce the traffic streams in the rush hours to normally flowing streams without traffic congestion.

BEST TECHNICAL DE-CENTRAL IN-CAR LOGGING ROAD PRICING SOLUTION

PASSIVE IN-CAR LOW WATT GSM MEMORY SOLUTION OPERATED BY TELCO’S/OIL COMPANIES

This road pricing technology is based on in-car logging of externally sent GSM echo’s. The storing of these echo’s with a time stamp is not done centrally, but in the in-car device. Whether the new location analysing services, which most telco’s recently have set up, have to be used is disputable. It is not necessary, because the system works also without these new services. This in-car and de-central logging system guarantees the important constitutional right of autonomous movement for civilians and companies.

This solution is the best functionally, the simplest to implementate, the easiest to operate, the lowest in costs, the highest in income, of all technically central logging based solutions. There is no better technological central logging system than the one described above, al others will require an new extra car national infrastructure, with all connected investment, realizing and operational issues. Above described system gives on all counts the best score by central logging. Police officers may test cars outside (not inside!!) on signals and can issue tickets with high fines if the device is absent. People can test the in-car equipment through their own phone shop. People can login to the telco’s online accounting system to see their road pricing data.

Both civilians as well as companies are perceiving governments more and more as just service institutes. They pay tax and they demand services for their money. This new look on government is a result of the intellectual maturing of society. Governments that are serious concerning their function, better adjust themselves to this intellectual maturity. Those that don’t adjust, will find themselves more and more out of the centre position in society.

The Planck Team
THE THREE ESSENTIAL DEMANDS ON ROAD PRICING

The first demand on road pricing is clear: It has to reduce traffic congestion substantially. Traffic congestion has long been seen as an unsolvable negative product of prosperity. Times, however, have changed: civilians and companies become more and more demanding towards their governments in solving this issue. The combination of prosperity and traffic congestion is more and more perceived and explained as governmental malpractice.

ROAD PRICING CONTRIBUTION BY PLANCK HOLLAND

INTRODUCTION

This contribution to the road pricing project in Holland is a dated, limited picture of the future mobility analysis and strategy which is currently in process by Planck globally.

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