The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) is to continue its contract with Q-Free for the service and maintenance of the congestion charging infrastructure in Stockholm. The three-year contract is valued at approximately US$6 million and commences in November 2013. Congestion charges were introduced in Stockholm in 2006, first as a trial followed by a referendum, then permanently from 2007. A 2011 report published by Elsevier in mid-2011 concludes that during the first five years of operation the
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.
Portuguese tag issuer Via Verde, part of the Brisa Group, has ordered on-board units from Q-Free in an order worth approximately US$1.9 million. The order will be delivered within the second quarter of 2014.
Q-Free’s fourth generation OBU610 is small and unobtrusive, yet powerful enough to support all applicable 5.8GHz CEN DSRC protocols for automatic registration, identification and fee collection from vehicles.
“Via Verde has been customer of Q-Free since 1995 and we have now supplied more than 3.2
The Expressway Authorities of Thailand (EXAT), which constructs, maintains, and manages the country's expressways and public transportation infrastructure, has placed a US$5.6 million order with Q-Free for delivery of tags. The order will be delivered between now and the end of the second quarter 2014.
“This significant order is further positioning Q-Free as a major supplier of products to the fast growing tolling market in Thailand. New road infrastructure creates demands for further tolling systems and
