Charging, Tolling & Road Pricing

The Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has authorised the purchase of a new toll collection system for the agency’s six bi-state crossings, which will have the capability to accommodate all-electronic tolling in the future.

Two Central Weighing Group companies are joining forces at Traffex this year to present a new range of vehicle management solutions. Central Weighing is an established market leader in Weigh In Motion (WIM) solutions for law enforcement and fleet management applications, with over 4,000 installations in over 40 countries. The latest Supaweigh 5000c slow-speed WIM, designed primarily for road tolling applications, will be on display for the first time.

Norwegian tolling systems supplier Q-Free has been awarded a US$2.5 million order for toll tags from the Australian Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA).

OmniAir's Tim McGuckin looks at why metropolitan transportation networks might be the key to securing the long-term funding of cooperative infrastructure

Kapsch TrafficCom has been awarded a contract by Thiess John Holland, the design and construction contractor for the Brisbane Airport Link and Northern Busway Project, to deliver an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system worth over US$12.25 million.

Sicore is the new-generation ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) camera system designed by Siemens Mobility to read number plates automatically. The company says Sicore caters for a wide range of applications in parking space monitoring and security, vehicle speed and journey time measurement, as well as toll collection. Sicore can scan up to two lanes of traffic and even opposite directions of travel at the same time. The operating range is 5 to 30 metres for single-lane and 10 to 35 metres for two-l