Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732640
