Automatic Toll Collection

Road Pricing and Toll Collection…

• To balance demand and Supply
• Use flexible fees – To control spatial volumes within network,
Influence the timely distribution, Support the shift of other
transportation modes
Principles of Tolling
1. The fees are approach or entrance oriented
2. The fees are usage oriented (depend on time and or length of
usage of priced road network
Types – Open System, Closed System
Advantages: Reduce congestion, Reduce emission, Increase
safety, Save revenue, Etc.
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Toll Collection:
1. Manual collecting
2. DSRC = Dedicated Short Range Communication
3. Video, ANPR (automatic number plate recognition), LPR (License Plate
Recognition)
4. Tag / Transponder / RFiD – Recognition (electronic license-plate)
5. GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)

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DSRC: Hongkong, Singapore, Stockhlom

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 GNSS

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 RFID

• E-ZPass and other similar

systems
• Metro Road Systems Pvt
Ldt (Research & Develop
firm – India offer license
plate recog. – currently
not in US)
• RFID tags on license
plates (Testing done in
UK)

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