toll system

The nation's second biggest toll authority seems to be backing out of a decision May 25 by their Board of Commissioners construction committee to award a $81.9m contract to ETC Corp for replacing their toll system.

Washington State DOT say they have ceased issuing toll violations until "glitches" are resolved in the back office supplied by Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp (ETC).

TransCore have achieved factory acceptance of the complex interoperable electronic toll system they are readying for the startup later this year on the Triangle Expressway in Raleigh NC.  Lodged midway between the hardcase battery-powered E-ZPass states to the north and SunPass batteryless sticker tag states to the south, Nort

The new toll system built by ETCC (Electronic Transactions Consultants Corportation) for Louisiana Department of Transportation (LDOT) is the subject of a nasty set of lawsuits. ETCC claims in its lawsuit that the Department hasn't paid its bills and is illegally using licensed software, while the Department in a suit against ETCC says the toll system delivered doesn't work properly and fails to fulfill the contract.

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California's old Title 21 electronic toll (ET) system spec written nearly 20 years ago by engineers at Hughes - long since departed ET - has life still. It is a requirement in the toll system RFP for the big new Port Mann toll bridge to carry Canada's Highway 1 over the Fraser River 24km (15 miles) east of Vancouver.

An alien paragraph that infiltrated the RFP was at the root of problems with Utah DOT's procurement for a toll system for the  I-15 HOT Lanes, officials say. Glenn Deitiker, president of Telvent Caseta says his company believed they'd won the contract when the prices were announced.

Utah DOT awarded TransCore the toll systems contract for the I-15 HOT Lanes despite the fact that it was the highest cost of three competing proposers. Summary documents obtained after we first wrote show the the bids for the build part of the project were Telvent-Caseta $8.1m, ETC $10.7m, TransCore $11.3m.

ACS State & Local have won two of the three major toll systems contracts just announced for the Triangle Expressway in North Carolina - Roadside Toll Collection and Back Office Systems. Washington Division of URS won Operations Services.

Georgia state tollers have got an impressive five bids to supply new toll technology, initially to be deployed in toll/HOT lanes being built in I-85 northeast of Atlanta. I-85 with all respect to Georgia is a fiddly little toll project of small inherent importance to the industry. But the bidders clearly see it as a foot-in-the-door project that could open the way to serious toll system sales elsewhere.