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Assessing sustainability of road tolling technologies
Published in Gianluca Dell’Acqua, Fred Wegman, Transport Infrastructure and Systems, 2017
D. Glavić, M. Milenković, A. Trpković, M. Vidas, M.N. Mladenović
Tachograph TCT records the mileage driven by the user through an OBU connected electronically to the vehicle’s odometer (the instrument that measures the mileage). A tachograph system which is in place in New Zealand requires manual, rather than electronic, data collection (Technology options for the European Electronic Toll Service 2014).
Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work
Published in Mobilities, 2023
Then there is an array of devices which achieve control-at-a-distance either by directly limiting the speed of a body and/or by inscription, recording the speed of movement through a trace. There are devices which govern the maximum speed which any unit can achieve. These place physical limits on engines, for example by setting a maximum speed of a type of train, coach or bus or ship, or the ‘governing’ of trucks in distribution fleets, typically to 90kph (56 mph). Governing speed (literally limiting the capacity of an engine) is how operators seek to achieve maximum efficiencies from units in an industry where fuel is one of the major operating costs. Then there are the devices which relate to compliance with regulatory working hours. Chief of these is the tachograph, which records truck drivers’ driving and rest time through the working day and week. The original tachograph is a classic example of what Bruno Latour calls an inscription device – it’s a piece of paper into which a trace is inscribed of the movement, and speed, of a vehicle in any given day. Contemporary tachographs are digital, but their purpose is the same; to regulate drivers and monitor their working time. More recently, the advent of tracking technologies in real time (GPS) has allowed operators to know exactly where any individual unit in a given fleet is at any one point in time. This is the means to keeping track of mobile assets in geographical space.
Requirements from vehicle routing software: perspectives from literature, developers and the freight industry
Published in Transport Reviews, 2018
Nicolas Rincon-Garcia, Ben J. Waterson, Tom J. Cherrett
An important element in CVRS is the ability to provide control over the operation, where creation of reports with a statistical module is a common capability (Drexl, 2012). A new challenge in the industry involving data storage is the driving time regulation, where drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tons are subject to mandatory breaks and limited driving hours, the main aim of this policy is improvement of road safety by reducing fatigue and drowsiness (Jensen & Dahl, 2009). The Tachograph is used to record the activities of drivers, and can be paired to CVRS in order to provide driving times and smooth out driver workloads (Paragon, 2009).