open road tolling
TransCore to appeal legal defeat on ORT patent
Posted Tue, 2008-05-27 14:32
TransCore plan to lodge an appeal against the May 22 US District Court's dismissal of their complaint against ETC on patent infringement in Illinois. An official said: "I don't think you'll find this is the end of the story."
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US Court rejects TransCore complaint against ETC on open road tolling
Posted Fri, 2008-05-23 10:56US District Court in Dallas has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit by TransCore against ETC alleging
infringement of open road tolling patents in the E-ZPass area. TransCore alleged in their suit that ETC improperly used methodologies they owned through patents for open road tolling with the IAG's Mark IV transponders and readers.
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North Carolina officials impressed by diversity of quality video for open road tolling
Posted Thu, 2008-05-22 19:50
Jim Eden chief operating officer at the North Carolina Turnpike says after two weeks of vendor demonstrations of their license plate reading cameras that he's impressed by the diversity of different systems on offer. May 5 to 15 North Carolina Turnpike Authority hosted eight license plate reading vendors demonstrating their abilities in an open road setting.
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Busy time for procuring new toll systems - GA, NC, OH, Mass Pike, NYC, IAG?
Posted Tue, 2007-11-27 22:10Latest unofficial word is that the long awaited IAG procurement for next generation E-ZPass toll technology will be
out in February. However the executive director of the IAG Jim Crawford says: "At this point I can neither confirm nor deny any speculation regarding an RFP."
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Maine Turnpike looking at open road tolling at New Gloucester plaza
Posted Sat, 2007-11-17 10:00
Maine Turnpike is doing its first open road tolling at the New Gloucester mainline plaza north of Portland. It will probably be a single lane each direction and most of the cash lanes on either side will be retained, a spokesman says. Preliminary estimate of the cost is $4m.266 words read more »
Open road tolling and mobile phones to pay tolls in S Korea
Posted Sun, 2007-09-09 20:37
South Korea's extensive tollroad system has been slow to adopt the most advanced toll collection systems but they are now catching up, and doing a couple of things very differently. 770 words read more »
First northern California open road tolling starts at Benicia Bridge
Posted Sat, 2007-08-25 18:52
The new 5-lane northbound Benicia-Martinez toll bridge on I-680 northeast of San Francisco is opening this weekend along with a new toll plaza. The plaza located on the south side in Martinez tolls northbound. It has two lanes of open road electronic tolling plus six stop-to-pay cash lanes that are also equipped for the FasTrak, California-brand transponders. Carpools or HOVs go toll-free in California so they have a bypass lane.
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Penn Pike opens highway speed electronic toll lane with a second rebuild of Gateway Plaza
Posted Sat, 2007-07-28 12:40
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Thursday July 26 opened an open road toll (ORT) lane at the Gateway toll plaza on the Mainline's far western end after the second rebuild in four years. The lane which has concrete barrier separation from traffic stopping to pay, caters to motorists traveling eastbound into Pennsylvania from the Ohio Turnpike, allowing them to pass the toll point at full highway speed. 725 words read more »
Ireland making leap to no-cash highway speed tolling on Dublin beltway
Posted Fri, 2007-04-06 19:26Ireland's National Roads Authority has awarded a $147m (E113m@$1.3) contract to a Sanef(80%)-CS(20%) subsidiary BetEire to install and operate 2x3 lanes of no-cash highway speed electronic tolling on the M50 beltway around Dublin. read more »
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