ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEMS

Cars pass through a toll plaza without coming to a stop. Tags mounted on the vehicles' windshields are "read" electronically by a sensor at the tollgate. The roadside computer deducts the amount of the toll from the drivers' prepaid tag. Fumbling for change while waiting in long lines to pay a toll has become a thing of the past. Traffic backups at toll plazas have disappeared and pollution levels have gone down. The toll authority's revenue collection process has become more efficient and its plans to expand the toll plaza to accommodate more toll booths can now be scrapped at a significant cost savings. The above scenario is not a futurist's dream. It describes electronic toll collection systems operating on half a dozen toll facilities today and contemplated by a score of other U.S. and foreign toll roads in the years ahead. It is but an early example of the practical payoff the traveling public may expect from the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/1071393X
• Corporate Authors:

  Urban Mobility Corporation

  1133 15th Street, NW, Suite 1200
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Publication Date: 1994-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Serial:
  • Innovation Briefs
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Urban Mobility Corporation
  • ISSN: 1071-393X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated toll collection; Electronic equipment; Fare collection; Intelligent transportation systems; Toll collection; Toll plazas
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic systems
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00672179
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Federal Transit Administration
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 1995 12:00AM