Charging, Tolling & RUC

Efkon India has announced that is has provided design, installation, and commissioning solutions for the three main toll plazas and three ramp toll plazas of the Yamuna Expressway Project (YEP) - a 165km highway stretch connecting Delhi with Agra – that will be inaugurated today. The toll plazas comprise a total of 129 lanes and all main plazas have 32 lanes furnished with fully automatic and semi-automatic fare collection system. The solution includes 24 weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems across all main plazas

Efkon India has announced that is has provided design, installation, and commissioning solutions for the three main toll plazas and three ramp toll plazas of the Yamuna Expressway Project (YEP) - a 165km highway stretch connecting Delhi with Agra – that will be inaugurated today. The toll plazas comprise a total of 129 lanes and all main plazas have 32 lanes furnished with fully automatic and semi-automatic fare collection system. The solution includes 24 weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems across all main plazas

Surrounded by elected officials, transportation engineers, and dignitaries, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday to begin construction of the I-95 Express Lanes in Northern Virginia. The project will build 29 miles (46.7kms) of express lanes on I-95 from Garrisonville Road in Stafford County to Edsall Road in Fairfax County, and will connect the I-95 Express Lanes to the I-495 Express Lanes currently under construction to provide a seamless network of new lanes to reduce

Austria-headquartered Kapsch TrafficCom has announced that its subsidiary, Kapsch TrafficCom Canada (KTCC), has made a significant investment in Simex, Integracion de Sistemas, a Mexican systems integration company with 28 years of experience in the Mexican market in the fields of automation and control, toll collection, security and parking systems.

Sirit has introduced the latest addition to its IDentity series of high-performance, fixed-position, UHF RFID readers, the IDentity 5200. A ruggedised, multi-protocol reader, the device provides increased flexibility in configuration options for the user. Designed for various automatic vehicle identification applications, including electronic tolling, traffic management and electronic vehicle registration, it provides similar performance to Sirit's ID5100 reader with the added capability of being deployable

TransCore ITS has announced that Tracy Marks has been named as president, succeeding John Simler. Marks joined the company in 1993 and most recently served as senior vice president of both the Southern US and international regions. In addition, he has been general manager of United Toll Systems, a growing product division within TransCore ITS.

Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration, has increased the amount of work for Q-Free on the Gothenburg congestion charging project. In March, the company learned that it had been awarded a contract, valued at nearly US$24 million, for the delivery of road side equipment, infrastructure and service and maintenance for two years with an option for additional six years. At the time, it was pointed out that the final contract value would be dependent on selected options and also the duration of the s

Construction of a new toll link between the Russian capital of Moscow and the country's second-largest city, the port of St Petersburg, is due to start in 2012. Here, ITS International takes look at the project to date and the opportunities for foreign companies to get involved. The construction of a new toll link between the Russian capital Moscow and the country's second-largest city St Petersburg has a number of aims. It will lead to the creation of a high-speed vehicular link between the two which will

Kapsch TrafficCom IVHS, a subsidiary of Kapsch TrafficCom, has been selected to design, build, and integrate the managed lane system (MLS) for both the North Tarrant Express (NTE) and LBJ Express projects in Dallas and Tarrant Counties in North Texas.

According to the Russian Ministry of Transport, the budget's net discounted income from the new heavy truck federal road passage fee will amount to US$12.77 billion per year. As reported here last month, the Ministry has prepared a government draft decree that will require all commercial vehicles over 12 tons to pay a toll for each kilometre driven on federal roads. A unified fee collecting operator will be set up, which will equip all heavyweight vehicles with on-board units. The devices will determine the