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* UK - Intelligent cure for congestion?
London,EN,UK -Commercial Motors, by Steve Hobson -14 December 2011: -- The UK's existing road network can be used and managed more effectively to reduce congestion, especially at peak times, without the need for compulsory road pricing, according to a new report from the Automotive Council and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills... ‘Intelligent Mobility – a national need?’ calls for greater collaboration between government, car manufacturers, the logistics sector and technology companies to use current road capacity to its full potential... Instead, the preferred options are to improve voluntary systems that advise drivers of the least congested routes, though take up of satnav systems equipped with this facility among car drivers has so far proved disappointing... Intelligent mobility will involve vehicles communicating with each other and the road network to direct drivers away from congested routes. It could involve satellite tracking of congestion hotspots as well as existing camera systems and in- car systems that transmit as well as receive data from cloud-based computers... The working group is planning an Intelligent Mobility summit next April to begin the cross-industry collaboration needed to make the plan a reality...
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