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Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) is likely to follow Florida's Turnpike in offering sticker-tag transponders free. They have already been giving away limited numbers of the E-PASS Minis - as they are called - in special promotions. Staff have proposed free issue of sticker tags be regularized and the board of the authority is expected to formally endorse the proposal when they meet Jan 27.

Neology continues to dominate as a supplier of ISO 18000 6C sticker tag technology for Mexico's electronic vehicle registration (EVR). The first of REPUVE's Phase 2 contracts for readers and software has gone to Neology of San Diego over its main competitor Sirit. The contracts provide for supply of roadside readers and handhelds to the police of the states of Campeche, Tamaulipas and Nayarit.  

Brazil's federal legislature has voted final approval to implement plans for a nationwide automatic vehicle identification system based on the RFID ISO 18000 6C (6C) sticker tags. Under the Portuguese language acronym SINIAV planning for the system has been proceeding since 2004. The tags will begin to be deployed mid-2011 and three years later all the approximate 50m motor vehicles in the country are due to have them.

Georgia toll authority's I-85 HOT lanes procurement saw three companies bidding sticker tag transponders at $1.59 (TransCore), $1.79 (Neology) and $3.05 (Sirit). These are far and away the lowest prices ever bid for toll transponders in the US. The prices are for ISO 18000 6C (EPC GEN2) standard tags (6C), never to our knowledge specified before in any US toll procurement and never before offered by vendors.

Sirit dominant supplier of electronic toll equipment to California and a partner with 3M in producing sticker tags announces it's teaming with eriginate corp to produce a UHF cattle ear tag to work with Sirit's IDentity 5100 reader.

Massachusetts new transport secretary and turnpike chairman James Aloisi is proposing an interim increase in the state's gasoline and diesel taxes to be phased out in favor of a road use charge (RUC) by 2014, according to the Associated Press.

After weeks of leaks, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has publicly put his case for abolition of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA). Published in the Boston Globe (op-ed page Nov 13) the Governor says previous administrations saddled the Turnpike with unsupportable debt, handed out jobs based on patronage, diverted capital funds for current salaries, and left no viable plan for the future.