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Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a wireless system to automatically collect the usage fee or toll charged to vehicles using toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges, and toll tunnels. [1] It is a faster alternative which is replacing toll booths , where vehicles must stop and the driver manually pays the toll with cash or a card.
Toll Authority: All toll roads in Texas, Georgia and the State of Washington, agreements pending with E-Z Pass system(s), Colorado and California Agencies Roadways: All toll roads in Texas, Florida and Washington State Capabilities: Provides the ability for users to add their vehicle information and pay tolls.
[8] [9] It employs RFID for making toll payments directly from the prepaid balance or savings account linked to it. A transponder is affixed on the windscreen of the vehicle and it enables the user to drive through toll plazas without stopping for transactions. FASTag has unlimited validity. Dedicated lanes at some toll plazas have been built ...
The RFID transponder in each vehicle is associated with a prepaid debit account; each time the vehicle passes underneath a toll collection site, the account is debited to pay the toll. FasTrak transponders using the Title 21 specifications are not compatible with E-ZPass and other ETC systems used in other states.
Most E-ZPass lanes are converted manual toll lanes and must have fairly low speed limits for safety reasons (between 5 and 15 miles per hour (8 and 24 km/h) is typical), so that E-ZPass vehicles can merge safely with vehicles that stopped to pay a cash toll and, in some cases, to allow toll workers to safely cross the E-ZPass lanes to reach booths accepting cash payments.
Peach Pass is an RFID transponder in the form of a sticker that drivers put inside their windshields. Customers may either open a Peach Pass account with a minimum deposit of $20 replenished by a major credit card or debit card, [2] or purchase a "Pay n GO!"
For example, an RFID tag attached to an automobile during production can be used to track its progress through the assembly line, [citation needed] RFID-tagged pharmaceuticals can be tracked through warehouses, [citation needed] and implanting RFID microchips in livestock and pets enables positive identification of animals.
The first major deployment of an RFID electronic toll collection system in the United States was the TollTag system used on the Dallas North Tollway, implemented in 1989 by Amtech. [3] The first fully automated toll highway in the world, Ontario Highway 407, opened in Canada on June 7, 1997. [4]