- Title: Equinox: For Whom The Road Tolls
- Date: 28th August 1994
- Summary: In the next ten years current ways of travelling on the motorways of Europe and Britain will radically change. The ideology of payment for road travel is changing and the Government wants electronic tolls to be installed by 1998. The programme looks at the technology which can enable this to happen together with other roadside technologies to control the speed at which cars travel.
- Description:TRAVEL ON MOTORWAYS,AUTOBAHNS,AUTOSTRADAS ETC. IS ON THE EDGE OF CHANGE. IN TEN YEARS OR SO,THE CURRENT WAYS OF TRAFFIC MOVING AROUND MOTORWAYS WILL CHANGESIGNIFICANTLY. THIS EQUINOX LOOKS AT THE TECHNOLOGY and ECONOMICS BEHIND THIS. TRAVEL ON MOTORWAYS, AUTOBAHNS, AUTOSTRADA, IS ON THE EDGE OF CHANGE. IN TEN YEARS OR SO, THE CURRENT WAYS OF TRAFFIC MOVING AROUND THE MOTORWAYS OF EUROPE AND BRITAIN, WILL ALTER SIGNIFICANTLY. A COMBINATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS WILL PRODUCE A DIFFERENT SYSTEM. THIS EQUINOX LOOKS AT THE MOTORWAY FUTURE, AND DRAWS ON EXAMPLES IN GERMANY, GREECE AND SWEDEN TO SHOW HOW IT IS SHAPING AND WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE FOR ROAD TRAVELLERS. IT REVEALS THE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES BEING BROUGHT TO BEAR TO EASE MOUNTING TRAFFIC FLOWS AND TO BUILD THE ROADS.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Fulmar West LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:28/08/1994
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s