Efkon equipment monitors toll violators for Asfinag

Efkon has supplied Austria's Asfinag Maut Service with mobile systems that help to automatically identify toll violators. In Austria and in other countries, the toll sticker system is widely used as the tolling method for vehicles with a maximum permissible gross weight under 3.5t because it is easy to use and economical.
January 27, 2012 Read time: 2 mins

43 Efkon has supplied Austria’s 750 ASFINAG Maut Service with mobile systems that help to automatically identify toll violators. In Austria and in other countries, the toll sticker system is widely used as the tolling method for vehicles with a maximum permissible gross weight under 3.5t because it is easy to use and economical. In addition to toll enforcement and monitoring officers, Asfinag also uses automatic enforcement and monitoring systems (Automatische Vignettenkontrolle, AVK). The system checks if vehicles have a valid toll sticker affixed to their front windshield without interrupting the flow of traffic.

From an overhead position, Efkon’s system overlooks one lane of the roadway and photographs the front view of all passing vehicles. The images are then checked for the existence of a valid toll sticker. Efkon says its system, which uses a special high-resolution light sensitive cameas, is capable of independently determining and monitoring the existence and the validity of the Austrian toll sticker on the vehicles without interrupting the flow of traffic. The automatic enforcement and monitoring system combines all the necessary functions in one compact device with no moving parts. As Efkon points out, the compact construction makes the system much simpler to assemble and install or to change its location more often.

Bernd Datler, technical managing director of Asfinag Maut Service, explains: “Automatic enforcement and monitoring (AVK) is an optimal way to complement the manual monitoring by Asfinag’s toll enforcement officers. The automatic system contributes significantly to improving the safety for both road users and for our employees, as they are used in those places where safety reasons do not permit manual monitoring.”

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