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Charging, Tolling & RUC

New York to pilot cordon-based congestion charging
March 16, 2012
From 2009, if all goes to plan, New York will run a three-year cordon-based congestion charging pilot - the first in the US. Upon accession, US Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters signalled her intention to continue her predecessor Norman Mineta's initiative to specifically target road congestion. And, with initiatives such as the US Department of Transportation's (USDOT's) Urban Partnership Program actively promoting tolling as a part of a compound solution to the problem, the way was opened for the co
Bangkok to use RFID system for speed enforcement
March 14, 2012
Thailand's government has announced it will deploy RFID technology to identify speeding buses and vans in Bangkok starting 1 April 2012.
Q-Free tag order from Portugal
March 13, 2012
Q-Free has received an order for tolling tags (OBUs) from Portugal’s only tag issuer, Via Verde, part of the Brisa Group which is one of Portugal’s leading tolling concessionaires.
NFC payment rollout in Australia
March 13, 2012
Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is adding multiple mobile phone-based payment options to its range of mobile banking services.
IRD WIM and tolling technology to be deployed in Mongolia
March 2, 2012
International Road Dynamics (IRD) has been awarded a new contract in Mongolia by MCS Electronics.
Reversible express lanes and open road tolling combat congestion
March 2, 2012
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
Need for standardisation of toll classes
March 2, 2012
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
ACS wins Los Angeles tolling contract
March 2, 2012
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'.
Road user charging environmentally necessary
February 27, 2012
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.
Are road user charging systems too complicated?
February 27, 2012
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