Title :
Occutek - identification and application of vehicle occupancy levels
Author :
Honary, S. ; Szczygiel, Marcin ; Honary, Bahram ; Momahed-Heravi, B.
Author_Institution :
HW Commun. Ltd., Lancaster, UK
Abstract :
OccuTek is an applied research project, partially funded by the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate and validate the use of mobile phones for the verification of the number of passengers within a vehicle as a means of promoting ride sharing through occupancy related discounts to Road Usage Charging (RUC).
Keywords :
middleware; mobile computing; mobile handsets; road vehicles; traffic engineering computing; OccuTek; Technology Strategy Board; applied research project; mobile phones; occupancy related discounts; passenger number verification; ride sharing; road usage charging; vehicle occupancy levels; HOV lanes; Occupancy; Road User Charging;
Conference_Titel :
Road Transport Information and Control - RTIC 2008 and ITS United Kingdom Members' Conference, IET
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Print_ISBN :
978-0-86341-920-1
