Sep142009
“Open road tolling” on I-95
Filed under General by david brooks at 9:19 pm
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve driven I-95 through the tiny New Hampshire coast - fortunately, since our short stretch of this infamous East Coast-spanning highway is notorious for backups at the toll plazas. That problem explains why the state and feds are spending many millions to create “open-road tolling” lanes, through which you can zip at highway speeds and still pay the toll; you don’t even have to slow down as much as you do for an E-Z Pass lane.
The state just awarded the design contact to Spanish firm Telvent (press release here; here’s an earlier announcement from DOT about the project).
I don’t know much about this subject, but a little Internet reading indicates that these are usually done via overhead sensors - either RFID readers, which involving E-Z Pass (as NH will) or license-plate cameras.
Telvent says its system will “implement a powerful remote operations and maintenance system to facilitate, through integrated video imaging, real-time sensor data and transaction information, event alerts, notifications and historic playback features.” Cue the Big Brother fears …
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