Friday, 4th December 2009 - 16:30

ITS United Kingdom's Road User Charging Interest Group takes a trip to Dublin

The ITS (UK) Road User Charging Interest Group met in Dublin during November. ITS (UK) Members Sanef and Egis Projects both have well established tolling installations near Dublin, so the group decided to take the opportunity of visiting these as well as hearing from Irish experts about different aspects of road user charging in Ireland. Delegates heard talks by the Department of Transport and the National Road Authority, and by Avego, Efkon, BetEireflow and Easytrip. The visit to Egis’ control room at the Dublin Port Tunnel, and the Sanef-run M50 toll, were very interesting and only the prospect of missed planes got the UK delegation back to the airport on time.
The ITS (UK) Road User Charging Interest Group has over 200 subscribers, and is led by Andrew Pickford of Transport Technology Consultants and Keith Mortimer of Efkon.
There is currently no Irish ITS association equivalent to ITS United Kingdom, but ITS (UK) is now working with Members IBI and Arup to support Irish ITS professionals who are interested in establishing an ITS organisation.

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Picture shows the Dublin Port Tunnel (photo credit - Egis Projects)

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For further information, please contact:
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Notes to editors:
ITS UNITED KINGDOM, the UK association for the promotion of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), is a not-for-profit public/private sector association financed by members' subscriptions, and provides a forum for all organisations concerned with ITS. We work to bring the benefits that ITS can offer in terms of economic efficiency, transport safety, and environmental benefits to the United Kingdom - and at the same time expand the ITS market.
The membership, over 160 UK organisations, comprises Government Departments, Local Authorities, Police Forces, consultants, manufacturing and service companies, and academic and research institutions.
Members benefit from ITS United Kingdom activities including seminars, workshops and regular news dissemination. ITS United Kingdom encourages discussion on issues such as public/private co-operation, standards, legislation, information provision and new technology.