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From Manned Toll Collection to

All Electronic Tolling

Is there an alternative solution?

Alexis ZASS President of the managing board - GEA

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Toll collection operations on bridges, tunnels, or for town access have been in force for a long long time. Manned toll collection using specific vehicle classification has always been used.

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This illustrates the toll fares established by the King of France’s counsellor in 1747 for a bridge near Lyon

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Today’s toll collection system must fulfill the following criteria: • Users must pay, and collected money should go to the correct

place,

• Traffic flow must be kept as high as possible (i.e. no congestion),

• Toll fares must be in accordance with the vehicle category,

• Toll fares must be in accordance with the distance travelled,

• All means of payment must be accepted,

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For revenue performance, toll collection systems should also take into consideration the following: • Toll collection operations should be, wherever possible, fully

automated,

• Toll collection systems should be as simple as possible in order to maximize reliability, minimize purchase costs, and operating costs.

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Old existing Infrastructures, with manned toll collection and toll gates do provide an answer to some of the above mentioned points : • Users pay, and fraud is kept under control,

• Toll fares are in accordance to the vehicle category,

• Toll fares are in accordance with the distance travelled,

• All means of payment are accepted.

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Such a system can have a poor performance regarding the flow of traffic in high density populated areas,

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Such an organization requires a large number of staff,

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The implementation of such plazas requires specific and expensive civil work (road interchanges, toll plazas, plaza buildings).

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On the contrary, AET “All Electronic Tolling” system (Free flow) has the following advantages: • They do not have any influence on traffic flow, • They are theoretically entirely automatic, • They only require gantries and associated limited civil work,

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In order for such an AET system to keep in line with the efficiency of a manned toll collection system, it requires: • More sophisticated and more expensive equipment, • Implementation of vehicle detection and classification, • Video enforcement, OCR, specific lighting.

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AET require more staff in the back office to check, validate and correct any discrepancies due to the system.

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For non-frequent users with a large variety of means of payment, AET systems are not user friendly.

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AET systems can be difficult to implement when there is a lack of contract standardization between operators and in the enforcement laws.

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In fact, alternative route between manned toll collection and free flow operations exists in 2 ways: • Channeled fully automatic toll collection systems,

• Mixed operations using channeled fully automatic toll collection systems and free flow operations.

Equipment has been developed to match the above operational needs: • Vehicle separators, • Automatic vehicle classification devices,

Fully automatic Toll collection equipment for all means of payment

Equipment allowing remote assistance to users,

Plaza System

Central System Remote Maintenance Remote Supervisor

Remote supervision of toll plaza,

30 Km/h Non-Stop E.T.C.

Lane

Fast Electronic toll lanes

Multi class Fast Electronic toll lanes

This equipment fulfills all the requirements previously stated: • One operator can remotely supervised and provide assistance

to the users for many automated toll plazas,

• It is specifically of interest to the operator in the case of modernization of an existing infrastructure,

• It can also be used in conjunction with free flow systems and still fulfill all the operational requirements. Such a system is up and running in KAZKHSTAN since the beginning of July this year.

In conclusion, to the question “ from manned toll collection to all electronic tolling, is there an alternative solution?” The answer is yes, with a fully automated toll collection operation. Today, it is widely spread throughout France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Fully automated toll plazas allow operators to have all lanes available at all time, hence improve traffic flow. The « Return on Investment » for this type of equipment is about 6 months, which is very much appreciated by the operators in today’s current economic crisis.