Welcome to Applied Location Corporation

These pages support the publicly visible research of Applied Location Corporation. They change frequently, but not regularly. They are put here in the spirit of mutual exploration and discovery so as to invite ideas and criticism that would further our goals of managing the rise of vehicular congestion and its attendant green-house emissions, while minimizing continuing loss of land and habitat to new roadway infrastructure and enabling more sustainable and liveable urban environments.

Our work is multidisciplinary.  We necessarily consider many aspects of economically efficient pricing, transport equity, parking management, cordon pricing, pay-as-you-drive insurance, privacy concerns, transit programs and transport optimization, as well as the positioning, radio, telecomm, and GIS technologies that will enable finely tunable, fair, and equitable transport management and planning programs.

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Applied Location is dedicated to designing location-based patents, systems, software, and services that enable transport system designers and funders to remove transport inequities among modes of transport.  Based on a specific philosophy and principles, our work addresses:

• Urban gridlock,that already costs Canadian cities $2 billion a year in lost productivity, and is estimated to rise to $7 billion within 20 years. By then the average commute in Toronto, for example, could take half again as much time as it does now. (see Marni Cappe).  Comparable or greater losses are experencied in major cties in the rest of the world.
• Automotive emissions that are estimated to contribute in the range of 25% to 30% of greenhouse gases in developed countries.
• Well-established research showing that motorists underpay automotive journeys and that when that inequity is addressed a fair and equitable manner − a manner that internalizes current externalities such as the cost of pollution, congestion, land use, the uninsured components of crash costs, etc. − the number of automotive journeys and the average length of those journeys diminishes. (see Todd Litman)

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Our core system, Skymeter, (patent pending) enables three forms of metering and billing for use of existing transport infrastructure in a common on-board device and common datacenter.  These are road-pricing (both cordon-pricing and selective-route pricing), parking-pricing (to enable spillover management), and pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) insurance.

All services and systems based on Skymeter are designed to be voluntary-use, secure, tamper proof, enforceable, amenable to after-market innovation, and as much as possible return the cost of device installation to the vehicle motorist within the first six months of adoption.

With this system, we offer software and services to:

• public and private road authorities,
• parking authorities and parking management firms,
• P+C insurance providers,
• integrators or solution providers to any of the above,
• to motorists who:
  • may prefer the convenience of paying for parking on an automated (debit or credit) basis calculated by the minute, or
  • may prefer the option of lower insurance premiums if they drive less than average, or
  •  may live in cities that adopt road-pricing, such as London (UK) has done in 2003.

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The Skymeter system is composed of two principal components:

• an on board system that computes, stores and forwards at least all parking events (but in certain incarnations and applications all location events (full tracklog);
• a datacenter that gathers, processes and generates invoices for these events for one or more of the pricing applications (parking, insurance, road), and further aggregates and processes these events to generate congestion maps for planning, reporting and, in certain real-time applications, for realtime reporting, navigation optimization, and controlling traffic signal networks.

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