electronic tolling
First electronic tolls in Oregon "well received" at a Columbia River bridge
Posted Thu, 2008-04-03 22:54
A small toll plaza off I-84 in the little town of Hood River on the Columbia River in Oregon is the first in the state to do electronic tolling. They now have five months experience using sticker tags, and the Port of Hood River finance director Linda Shames says they have been "very well received."
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Electronic tolling up throughout Indiana Toll Road
Posted Wed, 2008-04-02 21:07
Electronic tolling went operational throughout the Indiana Toll Road around 3am Tuesday April 1. The fire-up of electronic tolling on the trip-toll or 'ticket system' between milepost 23 in Portage and the Eastpoint plaza at milepost 153 near the Ohio border occurred in the early hours of the morning along with a major cash toll increase. All 22 toll points along the 253km (157 mile) road now have electronic tolling. read more »
TransCore gets Ohio ET contract for $28.7m - to go live Aug 2009 (ADDITIONS)
Posted Tue, 2008-03-18 12:25
The Ohio Turnpike Commission has selected TransCore to do a toll system upgrade including the Turnpike's first
electronic toll (ET) system for $28.7m. The contract also provides for setting up a customer service center to establish and manage ET accounts, dispatch transponders and handle violations and inquiries. The Turnpike Commission will staff the center itself. read more »
French toller Cofiroute offering romantic weekend getaway prizes in transponder promotion
Posted Mon, 2008-02-25 09:31French tollroad operator Cofiroute is running a lottery with "romantic weekend"
getaways and zero tolls as prizes for those who sign up for an electronic toll transponder in a 4 week drive this winter. Telepeage and 'libert-t' are the transponder account brandnames.
Says the ad: "Jouez... et gagnez peut être un week-end romantique!!!" (Their exclamation marks, not ours)
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Concessionaire on Indiana Toll Road has slowed ETC work to reduce plaza delays
Posted Mon, 2008-01-14 15:37
The Indiana Toll Road Concession Company now expects to have electronic tolling (ET) fully operational by April this year. That will be five or six months behind the initial plan which was to have the job complete toward the end of 2007. But it should be well before June 29 2008, the date by which electronic tolling is contractually required under the term of the concession with the state.
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Illinois Tollway tops 3 million transponders in use, now 80% transponder tolls
Posted Wed, 2007-06-27 13:09
The Illinois Tollway now has more than 3 million transponders in use and they are being used for 80% of total transactions, or 1.75m/day of the total 2.2m/day. Illinois tolling is done via E-ZPass Inter Agency Group standard active transponders from Mark IV branded as I-PASS.
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Indiana Toll Road collects transponder tolls for first time
Posted Tue, 2007-06-26 08:41
Indiana Toll Road Concession Company (ITRCC) collected tolls electronically for the second day today with traffic moving about normally - with about normal delays, spokesman Matt Pierce says. On the first day (Jun 25) there was one unusually large backup providing grist for negative news mills but it was mainly caused by bridge rehab work and a lane drop about 6.7km (4mi) before the Westpoint toll plaza. There were also a few lanes not working right.read more »
Texas Turnpike now NTTA recognized as pioneer in transponder tolling HISTORY
Posted Mon, 2007-05-28 17:30
A nice piece of brief retrospective journalism in USA Today May 20 recognizes electronic tolling as one of the 25 inventions that have changed our lives in the past quarter century. And it credits North Texas Tollway Authority, actually in its then manifestation, the Texas Turnpike Authority, for being the first major toll authority to adopt it.read more »
SunPass hits 3 million transponders in use
Posted Mon, 2007-04-16 16:49Florida's Turnpike Enterprise reports the 3 millionth SunPass transponder activated today. The first million took nearly four years from the beginning of electronic tolling on the Turnpike and associated systems in 1999 to the fall of 2003. The second million was rung up in about 21 months by the summer of 2005. The third million has taken about the same year and three-quarters.
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Mass Pike to have toll service RFP out by summer - TransCore "welcome" to rebid
Posted Sun, 2007-04-15 20:26Massachusetts Turnpike will have an RFP out for a new ten year toll services contract this summer. Spokesman John Carlisle says reports suggesting TransCore were fired were a bit misleading.
"They are most welcome to bid for the new contract" he said.
"We did think the prices they quoted for a couple of modifications were a bit high, but the pricing did meet the terms of the contract. We saw problems in the contract they were working under." read more »
