© Skymeter Corp Skymeter Corp Preet Khalsa, CTO
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 2 Our Purpose This Week Reducing our dependence on oil vs Declining Gas Tax revenue Increasing traffic congestion
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 3 A Part of the Solution Smart Road Pricing Meter each and every road Use Smart Meters like for Electricity
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 4 Background Infrastructure $ Emissions Traffic Source: Texas Transportation Institute; *Emissions inferred from US Dept of Transport data “there are all sorts of costs associated with driving that the driver doesn’t pay.” New York Times, April 20, 2008
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 5 Smart Road Pricing How do we charge for the roads like any other public utility? Charge for the roads by: Place Distance Time of Day or Week TDP
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 6 Tolling: Gates vs. GPS 150 m between intersections3 km between intersections intersections*40 intersections* km*110 km* All RoadsToll Highways $1M/intersection $150/vehicle Few intersections Many intersections
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 7 GPS in Detail GPS generally inaccurate Especially in “Urban Canyon” “Map Matching” typically used to counter Inaccurate maps? Map updates?
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 8 Urban Canyon Testing Shows: GPS Errors vs. Skymeter Skymeter: 40 Drives Overlaid. Asian City - May 2008 Another Asian City - June 2008
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 9 Superoperability We must co-exist with established Tolled Assets Back End Front End Assign different amounts from toll revenue to different entities Be a platform for Telematics
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 10 Transportation Policy Enable almost any policy Cordon Area Full TDP Driver Rewards
© Skymeter Corp Pay As You Go For Insurance, Parking and Roads 11 User Acceptance/CSF Toll must be fair and repeatable “Financial Grade GPS” Collecting the toll should not cost a large % of revenues We must be privacy driven Proceeds must be clearly attributed Tolling technology should have multiple uses To help defray costs To increase utility To increase the variable cost of driving