Electronic Toll Charging Products

The paper will address the results of the Transit New Zealand Toll System Project conducted for Transit New Zealand by Hyder Consulting Ltd. The paper will focus on the unique approach of matching policy to technology and how the functional design and Proof of Concept addressed the development of the lowest target transaction cost through innovative and creative toll product design for the National Tolling System. The results of the functional design and the resulting business case will also be addressed as findings. The TSP Study produced a governmental Proof of Concept which was the basis for the functional design and shaping of an approach to produce the lowest possible toll transaction costs. Based on worldwide experience in toll products from Australia, Europe and the USA, the range of tolling products was addressed as what was viable for the New Zealand environment. As a result, a unique and innovative approach was developed to sell and book various road user accounts through every day interfaces that already existed in New Zealand and thereby make the toll product offering familiar and comfortable to the individual road users. Such an approach is unique from around the world and as a result, the findings are of interest to any existing and planned toll road operator or concessionaire. The products were selected to be technology neutral and be able to support current and future direction of Transit NZ as it debated the existing CEN 278 standards versus the newer USA 5.9 GHz WAVE standard that are being developed and prototyped in the USA by FHWA. The paper addresses the impact of these two options but the commonality of approach for reaching each road user.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Opiola, Jack
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures;
• Pagination: 14p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Charge collectors; Design; Electronics; Policy making; Product development; Smart cards; Technology; Toll collection; Toll facilities
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• Subject Areas: Design; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01016020
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2006 9:56AM