Just wondering if anyone knows where I might find an aerial photo of a roundabout or junction, with gridlocked traffic (must be UK). The aerial libraries I've searched show roads, but nothing really snarled up. It's for the cover of a book: 'Pricing Our Roads: Vision and Reality'.
Thanks,
Stu.
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Not aerial but highish level.
www.travelpictures.co.uk/TP/TRAFFIC%20&%20ROADS/t&...l
Have you tried www.ukstockimages.com/
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Many thanks RF, will give it a try.
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Also could try this;
www.webbaviation.plus.com/industrial/motorways.htm
(sorry don't know how to post links properly!)
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Obviously does it itself!! :-p
Hope its of some use!
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Thanks kennybase, I had spoken to Webb, but he nothing sufficiently gridlocked. Lovely images though.
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Someone into computer graphics should be able to design what you want.
Anything at your local Tech College? May even do it free as a training exercise.
DVD
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How about News archives showing congestion resulting from accidents etc.?
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Have you tried getmapping
they hold aerial photos for the whole of the UK
I'm sure they will have taked pics of the M25 and other roads which will be gridlocked.
Might be worth a shot
Jonathan
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Of course you could always use a photo of one of the vast majority of roads in the UK that are NOT gridlocked on the front of your book?
But then that wouldn't help reinforce Government spin about gridlocked roads and the urgent need to force low income motorists off the roads though pricing would it?
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The fact that you are having to look so hard for such a picture would suggest that such gridlock is a rare event.
Perhaps the aerial photographers are caught in the jam on the way to the airport, seething at the empty bus lane to their right.....
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Yep, fair points from you all, however I'm just designing the cover for the publisher so please don't shoot the piano player!
For interest, here is the blurb from the back cover...
"The only significant road pricing scheme in the UK is that introduced by Ken Livingstone in London. But the technology now exists to develop a nationwide scheme of road user charging, with prices to road users varying with the level of congestion in a given area at a given time. The only obstacles to implementing road user charging would seem
to be political.
XXX and XXX have used sophisticated geographical and economic modelling to examine the potential effects of different types of road user charging schemes. The results of the modelling are explained lucidly and clearly. Using the results of the authors? models, policymakers should be able to find an approach which is acceptable given the practical realities they face. The authors also look carefully at the implications of road user charging and identify other policy areas that policymakers would need to consider. For example, in what circumstances would it be worth collecting the charge? Should any vehicles be exempt? Who should own and manage the roads? What should happen to rail and bus subsidies? For what other purposes could road pricing technology be used?
The authors use cleverly constructed multi-coloured maps to illustrate the effects of different road pricing policies and produce results that should make any policymaker think twice before rejecting new methods by which motorists could pay for roads."
Stu.
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