The Trusted Driver Model for TDP Road Pricing
The "Trusted Driver" technology provides the solution to a major problem in road-pricing and pay as you drive insurance schemes: how to preserve the motorists' privacy.
This website explains what is meant by TDP (Time, Distance, Place) road pricing, the UK Department for Transport's TDP Demonstration Program, and why privacy is such an issue.
It then explains how the Trusted Driver model solves this problem.
You can download presentations given at the Road Pricing 2008 conference on 10 December 2008, the TSB Information Day on 22 January 2009 and the Open Rights Group Database State seminars.
We at the Trusted Driver Consortium are worried that the Department for Transport is not properly examining the privacy issues within the Demonstrations Project.
Their invitation to tender documents did not ask for proposals to study privacy enhancing technologies; on the contrary, they specified the use of "charge records" which explicitly link journey details and driver identity.
If privacy issues are not considered from the outset then there is a real risk that the Demonstrations Project will deliver road pricing proposals with inadequate privacy, with the consequence that it will be politically impossible to implement TDP road pricing schemes.
We call on the Department for Transport to:
- Examine privacy enhancing technologies, including Trusted Driver, within the Demonstrations Project.
- Conduct a formal Privacy Impact Assessment as a separate program within the Demonstrations Project.
Privacy tools: Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook Privacy by Design Report and Privacy Engineering Whitepaper
Useful Links...
Congestion and road pricing Department for Transport's road pricing website.
Road Pricing Feasibility Study Department for Transport's investigation into road pricing.
Road Pricing Demonstrations Project Explains the Department for Transport Demonstrations Project. Includes Invitation to Tender documents.
The Eddington Report Executive Summary
Intelligent Transport Systems and Services the Technology Strategy Board program and competition document
Talks presented at the Privacy-Friendly Fraud Detection and Payment Enforcement in Road Charging Schemes conference run for the DfT by the Enterprise Privacy Group. See the paper on the German road pricing scheme.
Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook from the Information Commissioner's Office
Privacy by Design Report from the Information Commissioner's Office
Privacy Engineering Whitepaper from the Cyber Security KTN Privacy Special Interest Group
Road Pricing 2008 conference - includes a section on the DfT's Road Pricing Demonstrations Project.