IBM and NXP have offered the technological decision for elimination of a problem of stoppers

IBM and NXP have started the pilot project aimed at the decision of a problem of stoppers on roads of the Netherlands. The first practical test of system of gathering of payment for using roads in the Netherlands urged to show new technology of gathering of road duties. The new system establishes the size of payment according to road type, a time range and characteristics of environment of used roads. This information is displayed on displays of vehicles.

Eric Van Merrienbyor (Erik van Merrienboer), oldermen (a member of municipality) Eindhoven on transport, has shown simplicity of system, having established a prototype of the so-called Onboard Block (On Board Unit) in one of cars of employees IBM and NXP, participating in the project. The test system has been developed in close cooperation with a region management. Company Beter Bereikbaar Zuidoost-Brabant (A More Accessible Southeast Brabant), the Alliance of regional partners of Eindhoven (Eindhoven Regional Partnership Alliance), the ministry of transport and communications and a province Northern Brabant carry out financial support of test projects. 

50 employees of the Technological Campus (High Tech Campus) Eindhoven will test system within 6 months. Onboard the car of each participant of the test the Onboard Block (On Board Unit) which will register all trips will be established and to define their cost. On the protected website participants of the project can look, which route they went, to define its cost and to understand, whether has helped to lower a choice of a concrete route trip cost. At the second stage of the project drivers will move at less loaded o’clock or to use cheaper roads, to reach from the house for work. The project provides encouragement of drivers which choose the optimal routes. Results of the test will appear in the end of this year.

The onboard Block developed NXP together with CPS Europe, contains microcircuit NXP ATOP. This microcircuit has built in receiver GPS which allows by means of wireless means and at preservation of optimum degree of privacy, to define a car site. On a GPRS-network the device continuously transfers the information on a site of the car to system IBM which counts a route and its cost. At system engineering company IBM made use of the global experience in area of systems of gathering of road duties (Road User Charging) and an intellectual traffic control (Smart Traffic).

The system is easily established by the driver. The chip provides constant wireless connection with the device established on a windscreen. The system corresponds to all current European standards.

Cities of all world suffer from congestion of transport networks which grows out of the increased inquiries of consumers and absence of the infrastructures, capable to cope with these complexities. Eventually the problem only is aggravated, since the number of megacities with the population more than 5 million persons increases.

For the decision of these problems of the government of all countries invest in creation of new intellectual transport systems. Such transport systems will help large cities to cope with an overpopulation problem, to improve conditions of environment of cities and to raise their economic competitiveness. Researchers and advisers IBM already realised intellectual transport networks and control systems of the traffic in Stockholm, Brisbeyne, Singapore, Dublin, London and other cities of the world which list constantly grows.