Plaza tolling.
The past was dominated by manually operated tolling plazas. Travellers remember them as slow, cumbersome outposts where each vehicle must fully stop to make a time consuming cash transaction, and where in some countries waiting times of up to several hours were expected. Nowadays, Kapsch has been at the forefront of a clear shift from purely manually operated traditional plaza tolling systems towards automated, electronic toll collection. Road users pay tolls electronically, while driving through the plaza without stopping, only reducing their speed. Payment is processed automatically and barely affects traffic flow. This makes operations significantly more efficient, and turns what was a motorists nightmare, into at most a mild inconvenience.
We engineer and deploy a variety of different solutions for traditional plaza tolling, ranging from manual toll collection by means of cash or card payments to electronic toll payment using on-board units (OBUs). ANPR/ALPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition, Automatic License Plate Recognition) can also be implemented to support tolling efforts.