Satellite tv for pc-based toll assortment to pilot on Bengaluru Mysuru Expressway
Toll sales space on Bengaluru Mysuru Expressway.
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The Union authorities has determined to implement as a pilot challenge of the World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS) primarily based barrier much less free stream tolling on access-Managed 10-lane Mysuru-Bengaluru Expressway (Freeway).
In a reply to a query by Rajya Sabha member Lahar Singh Siroya lately, Nitin Gadkari, Transport Minister, said that it has been determined to conduct pilots of satellite-based toll assortment on roads together with Bengaluru-Mysuru NH-275 in Karnataka.
“The federal government has appointed a marketing consultant to supply advisory companies on the implementation of latest applied sciences like GNSS primarily based barrier-less free-flow tolling. GNSS has the capability to retrieve the positioning of the automobile on the Nationwide Freeway and calculate the consumer price primarily based on the space travelled,” Mr. Gadkari stated.
On February 7, Mr. Gadkari informed the Rajya Sabha that the expertise, which has been beneath the federal government’s consideration for over three years, will enable barrier-free motion of automobiles, which won’t be required to cease for toll funds.
He defined that the photograph of the registration plate of the automobile might be captured and the toll quantity might be debited primarily based on the precise size of the freeway traversed by the automobile. It will change the radio frequency identification-based Fastags that have been rolled out in 2016 and made obligatory from January 2021. A complete of 8.13 crore Fastags have since been issued, and a penetration of 98% has been achieved, in accordance with the Minister.
