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Press Release: RUC trial in Sweden ARENA, a Swedish R&D project, serves as a platform for cooperation within the area of road user charging. Starting today, the 3-year project will trial its concept in cooperation with companies from New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
During this winter the ARENA project tests its concept for road user charging. The ARENA Field Trial will be the first trials conducted at the Test Site Southern Sweden, based in Karlshamn and operating in the two southernmost provinces; Blekinge and Skåne. Equipment will be tested and demonstrated in a real, day-to-day traffic environment.
5 suppliers and a number of interested transport companies and workshops are involved in the ARENA Field Trial. OBE’s of different kinds will be mounted in ordinary trucks. Through the equipment the trucks could pay road charges, road tolls and gain access to telematics services coordinated with road user charging. At the same time several countries in the EU, France, Slovakia and the Netherlands, heads for implementing distance-based road user charging. The trials starts today. For more information, please contact Project Manager Michael Forss.
Published on Monday, November 16, 2009.
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