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The market is of major interest to the tolling community as only 10 percent of vehicles are frequent users of toll roads, but more than 80 percent frequently travel in congested urban areas. However, charging vehicles on toll roads is comparably simple as typically everything happens within well-confined boundaries either between guardrails or in toll plazas. In urban road pricing, the situation is more difficult. There are particular situations where a road consists not only of the two driving lanes, but also two lanes for parked vehicles and two lanes for pedestrians, or even two more for bicycles, and a separate track for a tramway or reserved bus/taxi lane. Vehicles move back and forth, and many times there is no movement at all. Business models must accommodate regular and occasional travellers. A major impact on systems is protection of the BEAUTY of the city. EFKON has developed a completely side mounted installation which can be mounted on a pole and fulfil all the required functions of CHARGING, CLASSIFICATION and ENFORCEMENT.
Payment is done using channels like call centres, the internet, payment terminals or via multi-application smart cards. EFKON’s systems provide multi-lane free flow charging with 100% legal proof matching of images, payment and classification data.
When choosing the communications media, there seems to be the highest utility in the Active Infrared medium at the current state of the art. Infrared provides the best legal proof, has no problems related to metalized windscreens and provides the operating distance to work from a house wall.It is also very easy to combine the Active Infrared Technology with contactless smart cards, like in the nationwide solutions in Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea..
The pole mounted enforcement is complemented by mobile enforcement which is performed by patrolling vehicles and hand-held equipment.
EFKON provides the entire front-end and back-end systems as a turnkey solution.
On-Board Units with and without multi-application smart card.
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