video tolling
Video toll demonstrations in North Carolina this week
Posted Mon, 2008-05-05 18:44Nine companies are demonstrating their camera systems in North Carolina over ten days starting
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Bay Area Tolls upgrade video enforcement and study V-tolling
Posted Thu, 2008-04-24 20:00
Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) are upgrading their video enforcement camera system (VES) and also planning a test of video tolling. Advised by Traffic Technologies Inc BATA began a procurement last October to install a new VES in 67 toll lanes at the authority's seven bridge toll plazas, training of staff, and maintenance for three years.
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North Carolina Turnpike providing site for vendors to demonstrate video toll gear
Posted Tue, 2008-03-25 11:30
North Carolina Turnpike Authority is enlisting vendors of toll camera equipment and license plate readers to demonstrate their wares from a bridge over I-40 from May 5 through May 23. The Authority is committed to cashless all-electronic tolling on several toll facilities in the pipeline so they have a major interest in video - which is the replacement for cash toll collection.237 words read more »
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Alliance for Toll Interoperability formed in south - video data standard priority
Posted Fri, 2008-02-15 12:58Representatives of nearly twenty toll agencies met in Dallas TX February 7 and decided to form an Alliance for Toll Interoperability (ATI). Initial focus of the group, mostly southern tollers, will be how to go about establishing license plate read reciprocity. With the strong move towards cashless tolling camera reads of license plates - 'video tolling' - becomes the mode for collecting the tolls of those motorists without a transponder account.
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TX183A in Austin to video toll, then go cashless
Posted Wed, 2008-01-30 22:23Central Texas RMA, operator of the 183A tollroad northwest of Austin TX is moving to implement
video tolling, as a first step toward giving up cash collection. They expect to begin sending out video toll bills in March or April. Cash collection will continue for now.
The move to video tolling was endorsed by the board of directors of the CTRMA today.
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Florida's SunPass goes video toll with five major rental car companies
Posted Thu, 2007-09-27 20:08
Florida will soon have the nation's largest video toll program with two statewide rental car deals and others on the way. Florida Turnpike Enterprise which runs the state's SunPass transponder account system today announced contract agreements with American Traffic Solutions which is acting on behalf of Avis, Budget and Hertz and with Rent A Toll acting for Dollar and Thrifty. 1053 words read more »
License plate reader PIPS bought by Federal Signal
Posted Sun, 2007-08-19 17:08
Federal Signal Corp based in the Chicago area has bought British-based PIPS which is one of the leaders in license plate reading cameras worldwide. PIPS camera systems are in wide use for toll enforcement and video tolling. 150 words read more »
Denver's E-470 begins video tolling of Dollar Thrifty rentals via Rent a Toll
Posted Tue, 2007-08-14 16:58Dollar Thrifty are now offering the Rent A Toll video toll service on their rental cars in the Denver metro area. Rent A Toll of Plano
Texas have been offering a similar service on Dollar and Thrifty rental cars on tollroads in Dallas (NTTA) since Sept 2006 and in Houston since Jan 2007.
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Central toll in Stockholm restarts with IR cameras only, 700k transponders dumped
Posted Thu, 2007-08-02 07:01
Stockholm's central area toll (SCAT) restarted Aug 1 about 13 months after a six month trial ended and ten months after a referendum showed 52/45 percent public support. A most interesting change is that the scheme now relies entirely on video tolling - use of infrared (IR) cameras that image the rear or front of vehicles and allow quite accurate reads of license plates. 695 words read more »
Mobile phones demonstrated for toll collection with cameras in Turkey
Posted Thu, 2007-05-17 08:32
Use of mobile phone messaging for toll collection has been demonstrated on the First Bosphorous toll bridge in Turkey. The system relies on video tolling plus the Short Message Service (SMS) that is commonly used on European standard GSM mobile telephones to make a toll payment. The text messaging also uploads the motorist's vehicle number plate and vehicle class to the toll operator.
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Competition heats up in electronic tolling for rental cars
Posted Mon, 2007-04-30 09:07
Competition is heating up in the provision of electronic tolling for rental car companies. American Traffic Solutions Inc (ATS) a leader in video tolling for rental cars under the brand PlatePass has bought the patent rights to the transponder mounting device EZ-Shield used by their chief rival, Highway Toll Administration LLC (HTA). HTA is the longest established and largest company providing transponders for rental cars. 2228 words read more »
