UPDATED 5.15pm:Â The future of car ownership might not be ownership at all.
Advocates of intelligent transport solutions have discussed the future of road transport at an ITS New Zealand gathering in Auckland.
British ambassador, and former technology director at the UK Department for Transport, Eric Sampson, says owning a car is very expensive.
"If I could press a button and summon transport, summon mobility out of thin air, that would do perfectly adequately."
Eric Sampson says car share networks, such as the one being planned by Auckland Transport, represent the future of private passenger transport in large cities.
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Meanwhile the message to Auckland, as the city debates whether road tolls or higher rates are the solution to transport funding shortfalls, is to just get on and do it.
And international director of ITS UK, Richard Harris, says Stockholm has introduced tolls to great success.
"They introduced road user charging, and then asked people what they thought of it. It's the fear of the unknown, people think in horror that it's going to price everyone off the road."
But Richard Harris says smart tolls at different times of the day would actually spread traffic out from the morning and evening peak.
ITS New Zealand and ITS UK are two of a number of intelligent transport groups globally, which advocate for and discuss these sorts of ideas and solutions.
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