Taking road user charges into the 21st century |
Taking road user charges into the 21st century, New Zealand is the first country to allow an end-to-end wireless road user charge (RUC) system for the country’s heavy truck fleets. |
The revolutionary technology allows truck operators to apply for RUC licences online and have them sent direct to display units in the trucks. Modernising New Zealand’s $1 billion RUC system could generate a payback of more than $1 billion to $2 billion to the economy in improved productivity, reduced RUC evasion and reduced administration and enforcement costs, says Brian Michie, founder and business development manager of Auckland-based technology company Eroad. Read more at cio.co.nz |
Unified communications boosts merged NZTA |
| Land Transport New Zealand was about to replace its phone system in 2007, when the government decided from August 2008 it would be merged with Transit New Zealand to form the New Zealand Transport Agency. |
| The scope of the project changed, to merge two phone systems into a single system based on Cisco’s Unified Communications System Release 6 – comprising call processing, voice mail, presence status, conferencing, video telephony and network switches. |
| “We’re capturing usage through Cisco’s Call Manager to gather metrics. We haven’t done a full analysis yet. But there are tangible savings on tolls, probably up to $300,000 a year immediately.” |
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Taking road user charges into the 21st century
