In his written judgement Ouseley concluded that, «A taximeter, for the purposes of Section 11 of the
Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, is not a device which receives GPS signals in the course of a journey, and forwards GPS data to a server located outside of the
vehicle, which calculates a fare that is partially or wholly determined
by reference to distance
travelled and time taken, and sends the fare information back to the device.»
In an attempt to ease
travel congestion, Beijing officials reduced traffic flow
by 30 percent during the conference, barring some 800,000 of its 2.82 - million strong fleet of
private vehicles from
traveling within city limits.