People's Daily Online, 25 May 2011Singapore will conduct trial run of a new generation of electronic road pricing (ERP) system that may use satellite tracking instead of the huge gantries standing at roads leading to the downtown areas, local media reported on Wednesday.
For bidders have been selected for the trial run, including the Kapsch TrafficCom from Austria, ST Electronics and IBM Singapore, MHI Engine System Asia and NCS from Japan, as well as Watchdata Technologies and Beijing Watchdata System from China. The Land Transport Authority said each will receive 1 million Singapore dollars (0.8 million U.S. dollars) in seed funding "to design, develop and demonstrate technological solutions." Full story
