Kapsch to deploy tolling roadside systems in Australia
Kapsch to deploy tolling roadside systems in Australia
Kapsch TrafficCom Australia is to deliver a tolling roadside system for two projects in Melbourne and Sydney for a combined value of AUD$30 million (£17m).
In Melbourne, Kapsch’s tolling technology will be utilised in the West Gate Tunnel Project, an initiative which seeks to establish a second river crossing in the city and remove thousands of trucks from residential streets. Part of an agreement between two contractors: CPB Contractors John Holland Joint Venture (CPBJH JV), the full scope of the contr
December 17, 2018
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4984 Kapsch TrafficCom Australia is to deliver a tolling roadside system for two projects in Melbourne and Sydney for a combined value of AUD$30 million (£17m).
In Melbourne, Kapsch’s tolling technology will be utilised in the West Gate Tunnel Project, an initiative which seeks to establish a second river crossing in the city and remove thousands of trucks from residential streets. Part of an agreement between two contractors: CPB Contractors 7770 John Holland Joint Venture (CPBJH JV), the full scope of the contract includes a single gantry multi-lane free-flow platform and stereoscopic vision technology for vehicle detection and classification and automatic number plate recognition.
In Sydney, Kapsch was chosen by the Lendlease Samsung Bougyues Joint Venture (LSB JV) to supply the same technology to the M4-M5 Link Main Tunnel Works project. This initiative is part of the Stage 3A of the WestConnex Programme’s ambition to ease congestion and help connect communities.
LSB JV comprises Lendlease Engineering, Samsung C&T and Bouygues Construction Australia – a subsidiary of Bouygues Travaux Publics.
In October, Kapsch announced a partnership with oil and gas company OMV to deploy a Europe-wide %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external cashless tollingfalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/categories/charging-tolling/news/kapsch-and-omv-to-launch-europe-wide-tolling-solution-for-trucks/falsefalse%> solution for trucks in Austria and Hungary.
Tolling specialists Kapsch TrafficCom and Axxès will form a joint venture called MoKA to launch solution for European electronic toll collection services (EETS).
Kapsch says EETS helps to simplify toll processing for commercial vehicles over 3.5 tonnes. It also allows truck drivers to travel internationally via a single contract with an EETS provider and on-board unit (OBU).
Companies must be accredited in their home country to achieve this service. Once approved, an EETS provider must be certified by
Kapsch TrafficCom will come to Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014 with a significantly strengthened portfolio of solutions. The acquisition, just a few weeks ago, of Transdyn, one of the leading advanced traffic management software and systems integration companies in the US market, well-known for its Dynac ATMS (Advanced Traffic Management Software), now enables Kapsch TrafficCom to offer an extended end-to-end product and solution portfolio for intelligent transportation systems to its current and future custome