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Question No. 1

Reply by the Hon. Michael Leung, Secretary for Transport to a Question by the Hon. LEE Yu-tai

Question:

in Legislative Council on 8.4.87

As a decision has been made not to proceed with electronic road pricing, will Government inform this Council what use would be made of the equipment and manpower which were previously acquired for the scheme?

Sir,

Most of the manpower for the ERP Pilot Scheme was

Government contributed only one provided by the consultants.

traffic engineer to the study team.

Since the end of the

Transport

studies he has returned to the Transport Department.

Branch also provided some administrative support.

The equipment acquired for the Scheme falls into two broad categories: first, hardware for data capture, including electronic number plates and loop interrogators, video camera, and a computer base storage and retrieval system for photographs; and second, smaller items, mainly consumables, such as computer discs, tapes, cable and other display material.