India moves towards national ETC

Motorists in India will soon be able to travel the length of a national highway without making a single toll stop with the government’s centralised and interoperable electronic toll collection (ETC) system which is set to begin operations by March 2015, according to a report in the India Times.
November 3, 2014 Read time: 1 min
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Motorists in India will soon be able to travel the length of a national highway without making a single toll stop with the government’s centralised and interoperable electronic toll collection (ETC) system which is set to begin operations by March 2015, according to a report in the India Times.

The system will use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, with a tag called FASTag attached to the vehicle. A separate FASTag lane equipped with sensors is to be installed on all tall plazas.

 “A centralised interoperable ETC system on such a large scale has not been put into commercial operation anywhere in the world so far. We expect at least a single-lane ETC system to be operational on national highways across the country (around 350 toll plazas in all) in the next 3-4 months,” said RP Singh, chairman of 4855 National Highways Authority of India.

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