Licencing Trusted Driver Technology

The Trusted Driver technology is available to companies involved with road pricing.

It can provide the privacy solution for new road pricing proposals.

It may also be useful for Pay-As-You-Drive motor insurance, and other telematics applications where the lack of a robust privacy solution are limiting the market penetration.

Possible engagements with the Trusted Driver Program:

Making your design privacy-ready:

  • How would the Trusted Driver privacy mechanisms fit in with your Time Distance Pricing system design?
  • Outputs: Privacy enabled design

Proof-of-concept integration of privacy WS prototype

  • Location Processing Service: linked to your charging model
  • Pricing Service: linked to your billing system

Licensing of patents for inclusion in TDP scheme.

The Trusted Driver protocols are protected by patent applications.

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.