all-electronic tolling

The Port Authority of New York New Jersey (PANYNJ) is hiring help in planning the move to cashless all-electronic tolling (AET). They recently chose consulting firms for two multi-year contracts to design and plan the radical change in the way tolls are collected, and a senior officer is about to be appointed as AET project manager.
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All-electronic tolling has been picked up by protesters in the fight over the rebuild of the York mainline toll plaza in southern Maine. Using pictures of 407ETR in Toronto, they produced a one-page flyer headed The Better Way: All-Electronic Tolling. (DISCLOSURE: those involved picked up some of the information from TOLLROADSnews and we had some emails back and forth. But the flyer is their work.)
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Cash toll collection is still kicking. In Maine the Turnpike Authority is pushing ahead with a planned replacement to their busiest toll plaza - the mainline plaza in York at Mile Marker 7, seven miles north of the New Hampshire border. And they plan a new $32m to $35m nineteen toll lanes plaza – 2+ 2 open road electronic toll (ORT) lanes through the middle and fifteen stop-to-pay toll lanes, eight southbound, seven northbound, straddling the ORT lanes.
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Several miles of the southern end of the Dallas North Tollway (DNT) will be closed this weekend starting just before midnight Saturday night through all of Sunday and until 5am Monday morning. Contractors for the North Texas Tollway Authority will swing in beams for a new longer Cedar Springs Road Bridge they are building just north of the Wycliff Toll Plaza (#1).
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North Texas Tollway Authority's board voted today to phase-out cash toll collection and move to all-electronic toll collection (AETC) - meaning future tolls will by transponder account or video imaging of license plates. All toll booths and coin machines will be removed.
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Some of the busiest toll facilities in America could go cashless if a study and design effort is positive. The Port Authority New York New Jersey (PANYNJ) has embarked on a two year $9m "study and preliminary design" for all-electronic toll collection. This would mean the elimination of existing toll plazas and their replacement by overhead gantries bearing transponder readers and license plate imaging cameras.
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