Charging, Tolling & RUC

International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a new contract in Mongolia by MCS Electronics.

Teri England, Diamond Consulting Services, details the construction of construction of a world first - reversible express lanes with cashless multi-lane ORT - on the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway

In a previous article Bob Lees of Idris Technology Ltd looked at the appropriateness of toll classes in relation to all-electronic toll fee collection. Here, he looks at how addressing classification standardisation could avoid downstream aggravation and cost

Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a Xerox Company, has won a contract to deploy a new electronic toll system on two of the busiest highways in Los Angeles County. The new system will allowing toll rates to change based on traffic levels to help reduce highway congestion on the new 'ExpressLanes'.

I like it when an otherwise unremarkable evening turns into something which stays in the mind awhile, and enlivened debate has that habit of planting seeds in the mind which over time grow into thinking with much wider application.

At any conference or exhibition, it tends to be the ad libs and asides, the departures from the scripted or official lines, which are the most telling. In mid-February, ITS-UK's Road User Charging Interest Group met in London. The event was no exception to that statement. Keith Mortimer, the Group's chairman, and his colleagues put together one of the better programmes on charging and tolling that I've seen in recent years. Sadly, however, the very positive presentations on deployments and technological pro

Finland-headquartered Confidex has launched a new family of limited-use contactless tickets with extended memory and increased security features.

Almex, a business division of the German Hoeft & Wessel Group, has launched a new ticket vending terminal for buses and trams. The Almex.Mini, with compact dimensions and low weight, provides payment facilities in cash, via a coin processing and change return function, or by smart cards via contactless e-ticketing applications. Appropriate interfaces facilitate simple and speedy integration into existing applications or delivery in the form of a full package solution. As the company points out, the new Alme

TagMaster has launched its new tamper-proof MarkTag MaX tpp, an ID-tag designed to suit a range of applications, including parking, restricted areas, access control but also for traffic control, such as city congestion, and tolling applications.

Arcontia, a producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has announced a true multiple-technology onboard validator for electronic fare collection schemes in public transport.