Across the world Kapsch state-of-the-art solutions for toll collection keep traffic flowing and address challenges of sustainability, traffic congestion and urbanization.
Our solutions play a key role in funding the evolution of greener, more efficient highway and roadways, helping toll operators and public agencies build sustainable transportation systems for the future.
In cities and metropolitan areas, low emission zones and congestion pricing schemes are increasingly being introduced to improve air quality and manage congestion on busy corridors and lanes. At a national and federal level in the U.S. and beyond, countries, states and drivers are moving toward a greener mobility future by adopting hybrid, electric and lower-emission vehicles. While this transition improves sustainability, it also threatens to undermine fuel taxes (not road usage taxes) that have traditionally been a primary source of infrastructure maintenance and funding for highway construction, bridges and tunnels, and other transportation projects.
In both cases, new and innovative approaches to toll collection and road user charging are required. With the right toll program strategy and Kapsch TrafficCom technology solutions, departments of transportation, tolling authorities and local governments can implement modern revenue collection systems that deliver a better mobility experience, and sustainable funding for road infrastructure than ever before.
An ITS software suite that integrates 3 systems in one that are usually separated:
Eastlink is a 39km toll road operated by ConnectEast, that runs through the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
It was constructed in 2008 and observes more of a million vehicle passages per day, making it one of the busiest tollway operations in the country. The original tolling system at the time relied on a high on-board units, also known as tags, to be operational to determine the identity of the vehicle for charging purposes, as well as an Optical Character Reading (OCR) engine that would determine the license plate number (LPN) for those transactions corresponding to vehicles without a tag. This resulted in a large number of images that needed to be manually reviewed and validated by operators.
Complete System Conversion for the New York State Thruway Authority
The LBJ Express and North Tarrant Express
The integrated electronic toll road for the Washington State Department of Transportation
Toll programs are shaped by complex regulatory environment involving federal, state and local agencies. Departments of Transportation, transportation commissions and tolling authorities must align with federal tolling requirements and relevant guidance, while also addressing state transportation priorities and public policy goals.
Modern tolling strategies and technologies enable agencies to meet these regulatory requirements while implementing flexible, future-ready road usage charging models that support sustainability goals, maintain funding stability, and deliver transparent, equitable mobility outcomes for road users.
With deep expertise in regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement and interoperable tolling technologies, Kapsch TrafficCom helps governments translate complex federal and regional requirements into compliant, scalable toll programs that support long-term infrastructure funding and sustainable mobility objectives.
As mainstream tolling programs continue to evolve, agencies are increasingly exploring all-electronic tolling, express toll lanes, and high occupancy toll models to improve traffic flow and create more sustainable funding solutions for existing highways and transportation projects. These flexible approaches help departments of transportation accommodate changing mobility demands while supporting the long-term maintenance and functional improvement of critical highway infrastructure.
Throughout the world, local standards and circumstances demand different technologies and approaches. Kapsch TrafficCom's end-to-end technology portfolio enables us to provide the most suitable solution in all cases – supporting customers at every stage of their tolling transformation journey.
Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) solutions modernize the tolling experience for road users and those procuring and deploying tolling systems. We leverage advanced smart technologies, including AI-powered analytics, to optimize performance and increase accuracy. Our infrastructure-light design minimizes roadside equipment needs, leading to a substantial reduction in total cost of ownership, faster deployment and greater scalability across road networks.
Kapsch’s location-based charging technologies are enabling the next generation of charging solutions for national, urban, and inter-urban roads and highways. These technologies support more flexible, distance-based pricing models that align charges with actual road usage.
The vast majority of modern vehicles generate and transmit geolocation data, creating new opportunities for intelligent mobility services. This data can be seamlessly integrated into Kapsch TrafficCom’s end-to-end tolling solutions to enable precise charging that can also be usage-based. By utilizing existing vehicle capabilities, authorities can implement efficient tolling schemes with minimal additional hardware requirements. This not only enhances accuracy but also improves user convenience without sacrificing reliability and enables tolling for any size of network without the need to deploying roadside infrastructure.
Kapsch TrafficCom is a uniquely partner in the tolling industry, with over two decades of experience and multiple nationwide and regional tolling projects delivered successfully worldwide.
We are committed to being technology agnostic. This enables us to support all tolling technologies, from plaza to GNSS and CV based solutions and everything in between. Our investment in interoperability makes us a perfect strategic partner for municipalities, motorway operators, governments, and all road authorities working to secure both road funding and reliability for the communities they serve.
We are technology-agnostic, supporting everything from plaza to GNSS and CV based solutions. This breadth experience is combined with our AI and cloud-enabled technological capabilities to provide the most suitable solution in all cases, supporting customers at every stage of their tolling journey. Moreover, our operational experience and integration excellence enables us to deliver solutions faster and without compromising quality.
The different products of the Kapsch TrafficCom tolling portfolio are each flexible, modular, and scalable, enabling them to work seamlessly with one another. This enables us to deliver end-to-end solutions that are perfectly aligned with addressing the ever-evolving requirements of individual road authorities.
Along with our customers, we are transitioning from hardware-intensive infrastructure to leaner, data-centric systems that facilitate continuous refinement and improvement. For example, we’ve augmented our MLFF solution with artificial intelligence to improve performance while reducing infrastructure and other costs.
We continuously invest in backend processing, machine learning and other AI technologies to deliver increasingly high performance without relying on proprietary hardware. As we do so, we are evolving from a provider of advanced technology building blocks to a tolling ecosystem manager, focusing on business models and value-added services.
Kapsch TrafficCom provides off the shelf, productized solutions to meet the needs of all types of clients around the world. All solutions are pre-tested and productized and support seamless integration and customer experience across all systems.
Our solutions are built upon innovative software and hardware. They are efficient, flexible, scalable and feature state-of-the-art cyber security.
Our modular architecture help agencies evolve from basic plaza-based tolling to highly sophisticated Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) and satellite-based GNSS solutions without total system overhauls.
Kapsch TrafficCom’s solutions reflect our unique decades’ worth of experience in tolling markets around the globe providing customers with proven strategies to solve unique transportation challenges.
