RECENT NEWS:
03/09/2007
Notification has been recieved regarding OccuTek's selection for funding by the TSB ITSS Type 1 Innovation Platform. The project start date has been set for the 17th September 2007, and the project duration is planned for 24 months.
SUSCRIBE FOR OCCUTEK NEWS:
PROJECT ABSTRACT:
OccuTek is an applied research project to investigate and validate the use of mobile phones to verify passenger vehicle occupancy as a means of promoting ride sharing through occupancy related discounts to road usage charging (RUC). Results will be demonstrated using a car equipped with a RUC device. The objective is to create a low cost, occupant friendly, after market solution that can be widely deployed as an integral part of RUC systems including TDP. This is a highly innovative approach to meet the challenge of reliable occupancy detection - not yet seen in the published literature. It offers a scalable solution that by its very nature works anytime, anywhere without roadside infrastructure. OccuTek also enables occupancy to be utilised in a vast number of applications, including 'step-changes' in E-Call and Adaptive Traffic Management, which shall be demonstrated within the project scope.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
The key identified benefit of the OccuTek project is the proof of concept that mobile wireless communications can be used to verify vehicle occupancy. The project objectives are to provide a low cost, practical and scaleable means of doing so. Each partner brings to this consortium a set of skills and experience that collectively offers the potential for this benefit to be realised. Project partners include:
