August 17, 2004
London May Use RFID to Enforce Congestion Charge
Transport for London (TfL) is looking into the use of RFID technology to enforce the congestion charge in central London.
According to silicon.com:
Although the main congestion charging contract is held by Capita, the current analogue camera and telecoms contracts are held by Initial Electronic Security Systems, BT and Colt, who send images to a central site. Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology at this central site is used to capture images of vehicles entering the zone and identify their registration plates.
For the proposed western extension zone, TfL initially wants the ANPR function to be carried out digitally at the roadside, with the full evidential record then being transmitted over low-cost cabled networks using digital technology.
Read more: Car-tracking RFID tags may enforce Congestion Charge
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