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A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing ...
Many toll roads have implemented open road tolling which eliminates the need to stop at toll booths. Toll roads, especially near the East Coast, are often called turnpikes; the term turnpike originated from pikes, which were long sticks that blocked passage until the fare was paid and the pike turned at a toll house (or toll booth in current ...
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road: 10.1 16.3 Sienna Parkway US 90 Alt. east (South Main Street) $3.51 (with valid tag) $4.66 (without valid tag) EZ TAG, TxTag, or TollTag required Hardy Toll Road: 21.6 34.8 I-610: I-45: $3.00 ($2.70 with EZ TAG discount) Hardy Toll Road Connector to George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 4 6.4 Hardy Toll Road
Open road tolling (ORT), also called all-electronic tolling, cashless tolling, or free-flow tolling, is the collection of tolls on toll roads without the use of toll booths. An electronic toll collection system is usually used instead.
Delaware Turnpike, a toll road in Delaware, United States; Florida's Turnpike, a toll road in Florida, United States; Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike, a toll road in Florida, United States (part of Florida's Turnpike) Indiana Toll Road, a toll road in Indiana, United States (often called "the Indiana Turnpike")
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 ] [ 2 ] 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.
The first modern road charging scheme was introduced in 1984 on the East Link, a bascule lift bridge in Dublin's docklands, constructed by National Toll Roads (NTR) under a public-private partnership concession. This was followed by the West-Link bridge in 1990, similarly a concession to NTR. However, despite the opening of a second bridge in ...