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Electronic Toll Collection (Pty) Ltd (ETC), a subsidiary of Kapsch TrafficCom AG, is the contracted company that designed, built and is still operating the system, and in turn oversees the Transaction Clearing House (TCH) which oversees customer accounts, and the Violation Processing Centre (VPC) which will follow procedures against payment ...
On roadways around the United States, radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponders, supporting transceivers, antennas, and video cameras are the current standard for the collection of toll fees. This technology was invented during the 1970s and was implemented throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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 systems segment held a larger share of the electronic toll collection system market in 2023. By technology, the electronic toll collection system market is segmented into RFID, DSRC, ANPR, GNSS, and others. The RFID segment held the largest share of the electronic toll collection system market in 2023.
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southeastern United States.The E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG) consists of member agencies in several states, which use the same technology and allow travelers to use the same transponder on toll roads throughout the network.
Travel times and speed are calculated by comparing the time at which a specific device is detected by pairs of sensors. This can be done using the MAC addresses from Bluetooth or other devices, [8] or using the RFID serial numbers from electronic toll collection (ETC) transponders (also called "toll tags"). GPS based methods. An increasing ...
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
Even though GNSS and electronic toll collection have been used for decades, the idea of using satellites for road tolling is relatively recent. The first successful demonstration of GNSS Road Pricing systems was given in 1994 during the ETC field trials on the A555 motorway between Bonn and Cologne (Germany) using the American NavStar GPS ...