Quantitative Measures for GPS Based Road User Charging

Author

Feng, Shaojun ; Ochieng, Washington ; North, Robin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

495

Lastpage

500

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to derive quantitative measures for road user charging (RUC). Instead of using complicated sensors to measure pollutant emissions and driver behavior, this paper uses location, velocity, acceleration and time (LVAT) determined by most widely used GPS receivers together with supporting information to derive indirect quantitative indicators for emissions and driver behavior. Test results show that most of the factors relevant to RUC are highly correlated to LVAT. This should enable the implementation and operation of a simple and cost effective variable RUC scheme based on LVAT data derived from GPS measurements.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; acceleration; pricing; radio receivers; road traffic; road vehicles; transportation; velocity; GPS receiver; driver behavior; location-velocity-acceleration-time; quantitative indicator; quantitative measures; road user charging; Air pollution; Costs; Global Positioning System; Insurance; Navigation; Pollution measurement; Road vehicles; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Vehicle driving; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2008. ITSC 2008. 11th International IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2111-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2112-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732640

Filename

4732640