Emovis will operate the free-flow tolling on Ireland’s M50 up to March 2021 following an extension to its agreement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The toll services company Emovis says it has been collecting funds of over €1 billion for TII to invest back into infrastructures of Ireland following a 63% increase in traffic to 143,000 passages a day. In March, Emovis confirmed its toll interoperability cloud-based hub in Ireland cleared over 50 million transactions in 2017. The solution is
October 16, 2018
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8573 Emovis will operate the free-flow tolling on Ireland’s M50 up to March 2021 following an extension to its agreement with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
The toll services company Emovis says it has been collecting funds of over €1 billion for TII to invest back into infrastructures of Ireland following a 63% increase in traffic to 143,000 passages a day.
In %$Linker: 2Internal<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />4343240link-external MarchITS International article linkfalse/categories/charging-tolling/news/emovis-reach-record-number-of-toll-transactions-in-ireland-2017/falsefalse%>, Emovis confirmed its toll interoperability cloud-based hub in Ireland cleared over 50 million transactions in 2017. The solution is expected to allow drivers to travel across the whole country with one toll tag.
Over 650,000 toll transponders are in use in Ireland as of January 2018, the company adds.
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