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From: s.minguijon@salvador-minguijon.es
To: XXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: “Pay as you drive” Information
Dear XXXXXX,
What we have learned in England is that the population rejects an obligatory system implanted at national level and that processes and stores information that can be used against the citizen’s interests.
This impedes the development of a centralized project of Road-Charge in a short term.
The solution that would be adopted is to implant independent systems to solve concrete problems of specially congested areas or to finance new investments in road infrastructures.
It is supposed that these problems are more and more serious and more extended and will consequently also expand the control systems.
The governments have to be sufficiently skilled so to implant technologies that can be integrated at national level later on.
The system “Pay as you drive” has to be implanted at national level and to avoid a radical social rejection, it has to be voluntary. It also has to be very careful with the information that processes because any scandal in its custody would have disastrous consequences for the project.
It seems to be that the citizens trust the custody of the information more talking about serious companies (overalls big financial entities) that in the own state.
That is to say that no matter how much technological and conceptually the projects Road Charge and Pay As You Drive are basically the same thing, the citizens will have different requirements and expectations about the same ones and its adaptation to these requirements implies, at this time and in certain countries, a significant technological difference between both projects.
Regarding the state of the projects “Pay as you drive” the only one really significant at the moment is the one of Norwich Union, the other ones are simply acquiring Know-How.
I don’t think that in Europe it will be more than 2 or 3 technological platforms that offer the application. In one of them will have a predominant role IBM, to constitute the other ones there are many companies of several sectors that are trying to structure a viable project.
I hope this information is you useful.
Regards.
Salvador Minguijón Pérez.
Interim Management.
+ 34 649 49 17 70
+ 34 976 59 58 71
Email: s.minguijon@salvador-minguijon.es
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