Tolling without barriers: Multi-Lane Free-Flow (MLFF) solutions modernize the tolling experience for both road users and the authorities that manage them. These free-flow tolling systems enable efficient, electronic toll collection across multiple lanes without disrupting traffic flow.
MLFF technology delivers a highly convenient, seamless and cashless tolling solution that enables vehicles to be charged without ever stopping. Because multi-lane free-flow tolling eliminates physical toll booths, toll plazas and manual toll collection processes, vehicles can pass through toll points at highway speed. This significantly reduces congestion, improves overall traffic flow and minimizes emissions, noise and pollution. At the same time, the need for extensive civil engineering works is reduced, lowering construction, operating and maintenance costs compared to traditional plaza-based tolling.
Our end-to-end MLFF tolling solutions make full use of smart, high-tech solutions such as AI-driven analytics and intelligent vehicle detection. This infrastructure-light design reduces total cost of ownership while delivering high-performance, reliable toll collection.
Flexible electronic toll collection for different requirements
Toll operators, city authorities and nation states all have different needs when it comes to free-flow tolling. That’s why Kapsch TrafficCom offers two complementary approaches to implementing a multi-lane free-flow tolling system, allowing maximum flexibility.
Video-based Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) hardware and software identify vehicles without toll tags. Kapsch TrafficCom video solutions feature unrivalled performance metrics driven by AI-powered image analysis.
In these systems, video tolling is complemented by the integration of roadside sensors and intelligent software that detect and classify vehicles equipped with a tag or onboard unit (OBU). The primary advantage of tag-based tolling lies in the higher level of automation and reliability it delivers compared to purely video-based approaches. Kapsch TrafficCom is a leading end-to-end provider of these solutions, supplying roadside hardware, backend systems, and software alongside the transponders themselves. Our portfolio supports all key communication technologies, including Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), and complies with globally adopted standards. This ensures seamless interoperability, long-term investment protection, and consistent performance across diverse tolling environments.
Kapsch TrafficCom is one of the few providers capable of supporting a wide range of MLFF system applications. These include nationwide and interurban highway tolling as well as urban use cases where efficiency, sustainability and user experience matter.
Managed Lanes
Kapsch TrafficCom leads the industry in dynamic pricing algorithms and trip building capabilities that help road operators optimize traffic flow.
By creating Managed Lanes (MLs), road operators proactively manage traffic demand and reduce congestion on critical corridors. These systems incentivize behavioral changes – such as carpooling or off-peak travel – to improve journey times and maximize network efficiency.
Because our systems are highly configurable, agencies can align strategies to suit their individual objectives, whether they’re focused on generating revenue or managing traffic by optimizing traffic safety and maximizing throughput.
Congestion charging and clean air zones
Cities worldwide use Kapsch solutions to mitigate the impacts of traffic congestion, air pollution, and excess noise with targeted incentive zones. By incentivizing drivers to change their behavior, municipalities can manage demand and encourage shifts toward sustainable transportation.
Kapsch’s flexible portfolio includes Limited Access Zones, Congestion Charging Zones, and Clean Air Zones to help cities achieve their specific environmental and mobility goals
How smart technologies and AI enable us to deliver industry-leading performance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and advanced vehicle detection and classification algorithms enable Kapsch TrafficCom to deliver high-performance reliable MLFF toll collection. Whether based on video, DSRC or RFID, our systems achieve the accuracy authorities need to confidently charge vehicles without stopping them, ensuring both operational efficiency and user acceptance.
A great example of Kapsch TrafficCom’s innovation is HoTCap. By leveraging AI algorithms surrounding advanced vehicle fingerprinting, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), and passage fusion, HoTCap aims to push the boundary of performance accuracy and network-wide tolling while drastically reducing installation and running costs.
Data analytics is also used to improve safety. Our Deep Learning Versatile Platform (DLVP), for example, efficiently analyses images and videos in real-time. By integrating with roadside devices, the platform analyzes traffic conditions and pushes real-time alerts to driver dashboards, providing heads-up warnings that help to prevent accidents.
Our cloud-ready modular back office platform eliminates the need for on-premises IT infrastructures. This scalable approach reduces complexity by allowing everything from single add-on applications to end-to-end MLFF solutions with reduced overhead and increased flexibility.
Our modular and configurable electronic toll collection platform, called Operian, is built on standards and designed to support various MLFF tolling solutions with an evolving range of applications and modules built on state-of-the-art back office and roadside capabilities.
Automated, infrastructure-light MLFF solutions that maximize performance and minimize hardware.
Unmatched identification accuracy to support confident billing without interrupting the flow of traffic.
Full support for all communications standards and interfaces, inclusive of regional technology preferences.
Real-time traffic insights and dynamic pricing to manage demand, improve throughput, and enhance the road-user experience.
Barrier-free environments eliminate sudden braking and lane-changing associated with traditional toll plazas.
Our operational and commercial back office (OBO and CBO) is technology-agnostic and supports all deployment models.
With decades of global tolling experience and partnerships across the industry, Kapsch TrafficCom constantly innovates to advance MLFF technology. Our high-tech solutions are developed to meet the highest performance requirements – even under heavy traffic, in complex lane configurations or across long highway sections.
By combining advanced toll collection, real-time data analytics and scalable business capabilities, our MLFF systems enable authorities to manage traffic more intelligently, include congestion management strategies and improve mobility outcomes. The focus is always on delivering measurable results: reliable revenue collection, efficient operations and a seamless, barrier-free experience for every vehicle.
Top References
We are delighted to collaborate with Kapsch TrafficCom to increase the efficiency of the use of advanced transit gate systems, which will contribute to the adoption of innovative, sustainable and smart mobility solutions that enable and allow trucks to access the highway network without having to wait at gate kiosks, and allow for better traffic flow and faster delivery of goods transported by road.
H.E Eng Khaled Fadel Al Ali, the Director General of Public Services Department, Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah / UAE
