Illinois to upgrade tollway systems

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority board has approved a US$44 million contract with Chicago-based technology services company Accenture to build a new customer service and toll violation processing system. Scheduled to be in place by 2015, the system will improve how transactions from the tollway's 1.4 million daily drivers are processed and help eliminate violation errors, said Shana Whitehead, the tollway's chief of business systems. The tollway's customer service and violation processing system ha
July 1, 2013 Read time: 1 min
The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority board has approved a US$44 million contract with Chicago-based technology services company 1968 Accenture to build a new customer service and toll violation processing system.

Scheduled to be in place by 2015, the system will improve how transactions from the tollway's 1.4 million daily drivers are processed and help eliminate violation errors, said Shana Whitehead, the tollway's chief of business systems.

The tollway's customer service and violation processing system handles nearly US$1 billion in toll and violation revenue annually.

The new system will include the flexibility to update violation notice language, support future innovations like smartphone-based tolling and communicate with other tolling organisations.

The system is also needed for the tollway to continue its US$12.1 billion Move Illinois program to rebuild and expand, including the new toll road known as the Elgin-O'Hare Western Access, officials said.
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