London
Western Extension Zone closure date
Introduction
Welcome to the '
The program is
designed to automatically alert you when you enter the congestion zone and
allows you to pay the congestion charge easily thereby saving you from the very
expensive £50 fines if you forget to pay.
It also keeps a
log of your entries into the congestion zone and tells you how far you are from
the congestion zone at any one time.
You can inform it
whether or not you are a registered resident within the zone and it will tell
you the date you have paid the charge up to taking into account any weekends,
bank holidays and free charge periods.
Installation Instructions for iPhone, Android, or Blackberry phone with GPS
Simply go to the following web site (no installation
required)
Hardware requirements for Pocket PC Program
- Pocket PC (with Bluetooth)
- Bluetooth GPS receiver (optional if
Pocket PC has an inbuilt GPS receiver)
- Mobile Phone (optional if you do not
wish to pay the congestion charge via text message)
(If you require a
Bluetooth GPS Receiver and / or a Pocket PC, then www.magicgadgetz.co.uk can provide
them for you at a very reasonable price.)
Installation Instructions for Pocket PC Program
Click on the website links below and save the files
onto your Pocket PC and then click on each file to install it:
- http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/CC_Auto_Pay.CAB
- http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/TextMessager.CAB
- http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/BlueTools.arm.CAB
- http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/NETCFv2.ppc.armv4.cab
- http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/GpsGatePPC.exe
(optional - install from normal computer via active synch)
Operational Guide for Pocket PC Program
Click on
'Start'->'Programs'->'CC Auto Pay' to start the program after it has been
installed.
The first screen
to appear will be a request to license the trial version of the program which
you can do by going to http://www.wabridge.co.uk/ccautopay/license
The GPS Setup
screen will then appear. Ensure that your Bluetooth GPS Device is turned on and
click the 'Discover' button. Then click on your GPS Device in the left hand
list and then the resulting gps service in the right
hand list. (This only needs to be done once the first time the program is
started).
(If your Pocket PC
has an inbuilt GPS receiver which you wish to use or you wish to share the GPS
data with another application then tick the 'Use GPSGate'
box – see GPSGate below for further details).
GPS data
containing your current position and how far you are away from the congestion
zone and whether you are within the charging hours will then appear in the
'Main' screen and be refreshed every second.
The program will
inform you when you enter the congestion charging zone within the charging
hours and prompt you to send a text message to pay for the congestion charge.
To do this, click on the 'Send Text Msg…' button. The
'Send Text Msg' screen will appear. Ensure that your
mobile phone is Bluetooth discoverable and click on the 'Link to Phone' button.
Then click on the name of you phone in the list and 'Connected' should then
appear below the list once the program has paired with your phone. (The first
time for security purposes your mobile phone may ask you whether you wish to
accept a connection with the Pocket PC and prompt you for a common pairing
number which you should also enter in the Pocket PC screen. Connections should
be successfully established with most Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones with
Bluetooth enabled and the program has been specifically successfully tested on
Sony Ericsson k750i, k850i and Nokia 6230i models. Blackberry and IPhones have not been successfully connected to during
tests.)
Then provided you
have already registered your mobile phone with Transport for
To inform the
program that the congestion charge has been paid (whether by text message or by
any other means) click on the 'Charge Paid' check box so it is ticked. The
'Paid Until' date will then appear below.
Registered Residents
If you a resident
within the congestion zone (and have notified Transport for
Western Extension Zone closure date
To enter the date
after which the Western Extension zone is closed click on 'Options' and enter the
date in the box at the top of the screen. At the time the program was written
the date had not been stated by the Mayor of London although the intention for
sometime in the Spring of 2010 had been declared. An
estimated date of 04/04/2010 has been entered which can be changed accordingly.
Entries Log
To view the
entries you have made into the congestion zone click on the 'View Entries'
button. You will see the date and time as well as the latitude and longitude of
the entry and whether you have paid for it or not. You can mark an entry as
paid or clear a payment from the log by clicking on the appropriate button. You
can also click on the 'Remove Entry' button to remove an entry from the log
provided the program has been licensed.
GPSGate
GPSGate is a program provided by a third party
company (franson.com) that allows one GPS connection to be shared by different
applications (for instance this program and a satellite navigation program). It
is also able to pick up any inbuilt GPS connection on your Pocket PC. If this
is a requirement for you then tick the 'use GPS Gate' box in the 'GPS setup'
screen after first ensuring that you have installed the optional GPSGate program (item number 4 in the installation
instructions above). GPSGate will work for free for
two weeks after which a 'gpsgate express license
code' is required which can be obtained from www.franson.com
.
License the program
You can download
and try this program for free but after five entries into the congestion zone a
licence code is required to unlock the program.
The license code
costs just £19.99 which is less than half the £50 fine you receive
for forgetting to pay the congestion charge just once.
To obtain the
license code click on the 'Buy Now' button below and your payment will be made
securely via PayPal.
The license code will be automatically emailed
to you and / or you can retrieve the license code by entering your email
address in the box below.
Once you have the
license code, enter it in the 'Options' screen and click the 'Submit' button. A
confirmation message will appear and the program will be fully unlocked.
Contact Details
If you have any
questions then please contact ccautopay@wabridge.co.uk