AUTOMATIC TOLL-COLLECTION ON THE ITALIAN MOTORWAYS. A REPORT BASED ON 4 YEARS' OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE

After an analysis of the needs related to the problems of management and optimization of traffic flows near the motorway toll gates, all the constraints that affected the design and development of the automatic fee collection system are presented. The outstanding technological aspects of the Telepass system are described briefly, together with the developments achieved in the most recent years. The multifunctional capability of the system, the advantages of Smart Card technology, and its utilization for a Multilane management as the starting point towards Integrated Payment Systems are pointed out. The impacts on the users, on the service provider and on those who directly manage the fee collection are also described. Some considerations on the cost/benefit ratio analysis, highlighting the overall advantages of such a system, are also presented. The problems that still have to be faced and the possible future initiatives for improving the system functionalitites and the quality of service are also discussed. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 868006.

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• Authors:
  • DAVANTI, P
  • Armellini, A
• Conference:
  • TOWARDS AN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON APPLICATIONS OF TRANSPORT TELEMATICS AND INTELLIGENT VEHICLE-HIGHWAY SYSTEMS, NOVEMBER 30 - 3RD DECEMBER 1994, PARIS. VOLUME 6
• Publication Date: 1994

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 3352-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Benefit cost analysis; Conferences; Improvements; Intelligent transportation systems; Payment; Quality control; Tariffs; Toll roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Quality
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9108: Improvement; 8051: Italy; 272: Payment; 9063: Quality; 241: Tariff; 2702: Toll road
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00676344
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-89006-825-9
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 12 1995 12:00AM