VISION: Road Transport in Europe 2025 - FEHRL

● Determine how best to acquire, filter and disseminate data for timetabling in real time by mode and location; this
will include understanding how real-time changes to service schedules interact and synchronise with
complementary modes. Design efficient travel and traffic data collection and management systems that are able
to deal with real time processing and are suitable for prediction. Establish management protocols for the
rationalisation of information collection and sharing. Investigate the functional requirements and market
opportunities for the storage and access of historic and real-time traffic data.
Road User Charges
● Investigate the potential benefits, costs and impacts of different structures, levels and geographic coverage of road
user charges. Determine how to inform the user of the charge in a meaningful way, and its relation to the trip, in
order to bring about appropriate behavioural change.
◆ Explore how models of financial management will impact on the type of charging system that is actually
implemented - the structure and level of charges and how they relate to use - and what elements of use are actually
charged for.
Investigate and establish the criteria for charging - environmental effects, effect on the road, effect on other road
users, for time saved, targets, constraints, desirables etc. - and the relation between objectives and behavioural
response.
● Devise options for migrating from the current approaches to travel taxation to a system based on road user
charges.
Investigate potential interactions and interfaces between local and national road user charging systems and how
to ensure that revenues are equitably distributed. Investigate how to harmonise potential systems between towns.
◆ Understand the potential impact of road user charging on residential and commercial land use distributions.
Develop intelligence processing and contingency plan selection for such events; provide intelligent coupling to
emergency services' operations.
● Develop database systems to record patterns of traffic etc events and permit recognition of unusual or threatening
(pre-terrorist) activity; develop processing and warning systems for emergency services.
● Develop video based surveillance and image recognition systems to input to safety and security systems (as well
as monitoring traffic flows). Develop vehicle theft and traffic systems.
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