—– Original Message —–

From: Salvador Minguijon

To: Salvador Minguijon

Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:48 PM

Subject: “Pay as you drive” Information

Dear ladies and gentlemen: 

            In November we were surprised by the civic and resigned acceptance of the project “Road Charge”. Now, it is very possible that a letter to the English government rejecting the project is subscribed by a million citizens. 

            The government is reaffirmed in developing this project but, without any doubt, will make it with many more cautions. 

            The users have the suspicion that behind this project it hides an increment of taxes, without taking the opportune measures that facilitate the use of the public transport, and they are also very reticent with the implications about the lost of intimacy that this project can suppose. 

            With regard to this last point, I suppose that the article The respect to the privacy in the projects “Pay As You Drive.” can be interesting. 

            Every day we see clearer and clearer the reasons because IBM has bet for the initial development of its project in countries in phase of industrial development. The traffic problems that are generating in China, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, etc is incomparably more serious than those that has England, even in spite of being the country of Europe with more problems of traffic density, and they don’t exist (or at least they are not manifested) these reticences on the part of the users. 

            IBM has made a shy announcement of the beginning of its tests, but mainly the importance that has its collaboration with the CERT highlighting and on the other hand the CERT announces the same fact with a clear declaration of intentions of what they seek to reach. Definitively it is necessary to keep in mind, IBM has a firm interest in this market. 

            The Victoria Transport Policy Institute has published two new articles with the quality level that has accustomed us, its reading is almost indispensable Win-Win Emission Reduction Strategies and Win-Win Transportation Solutions. 

            While we are waiting some notification of Norwich of how their project is developing, something that I suppose will make to satisfy its shareholders, we continue obtaining information with dropper on the part of its suppliers, in this case of Trafficmaster although the truth is that neither it is very explicit. 

            This month I have also attached some documents that will be useful to follow the state of the patents presented on this project in
Europe. Neither the interpretation exposed in Wikipedia in Telematics neither in Insurance it is completely correct, although the truth is that it is maybe a very specific topic and its detailed analysis would be outside of what Wikipedia seeks to be. 

            In my blog you will find a study on the Penetration mechanisms in the market of the projects “Pay As You Drive” that I hope that it is of your interest. 

            I have upgraded my database Pay as you drive directory. 

            If somebody wants that their address is erased of my distribution list, please return me this message with the word “DELETE.” 

Yours sincerely. 

 

                                                                      
Salvador Minguijon Perez.