Highway travels within the close to future is not going to embrace lengthy strains at toll plazas, serving to you save time

Over a decade in the past, the gathering of tolls on highways was purely executed in money or by way of playing cards, till FASTags had been launched in 2014. The introduction of FASTags made the toll fee course of faster and extra seamless, however Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is planning to make FASTags and even toll plazas utterly out of date with a brand new satellite-based toll assortment system. Learn extra about what it’s and the way it works on this detailed article.

What Is GPS Based Toll Collection

Unlike our conventional method of paying tolls whereas travelling, the place there are toll assortment plaza on highways the place you must cease, wait in line, and pay the toll by way of FASTag; the GPS or satellite-based toll assortment system will incorporate monitoring programs put in in automobiles that may measure the gap travelled by your automobile and the toll might be charged based mostly on the gap you may have lined. 

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In this course of, because the information from the monitoring gadget is shared straight with the satellite tv for pc, the presence of toll plazas is not going to be required which is able to make the drive much more handy by serving to you save the time you spend ready in strains.

How Will It Work

The implementation of this new methodology is not going to be straightforward and it’ll take a couple of years for each automobile to be outfitted with the know-how. However, if carried out efficiently, that is how the method will work.

• The automobiles should be outfitted with an OBU (on-board unit) which is the aforementioned monitoring gadget.

• The OBU will observe the coordinates of your automobile when you’re driving on highways and people coordinates might be shared with the satellite tv for pc to calculate the gap you may have travelled.

• This system will work utilizing GPS (Global Positioning System) which is able to function utilizing the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) that may assist preserve accuracy within the distance calculation.

• The cameras positioned on these highways can be utilized to make sure that the gap is being measured correctly by evaluating the coordinates of the automobile with the picture taken. The digicam may assist in discovering out which automobiles don’t have OBUs by working the quantity plates.

• Initially, this toll assortment system might be carried out on choose highways and expressways throughout the nation.

• With this methodology of toll assortment, the quite a few toll plazas positioned on the highways and expressways might be eliminated, and you wouldn’t must decelerate which might make your journeys barely faster.

The OBUs will not be already current in automobiles however should be put in externally. As of now, there is no such thing as a details about how and the place to get these OBUs, however the course of won’t be so troublesome, and is likely to be just like FASTags after they had been initially launched. This is how we expect the method might be.

• Much like FASTags, these OBUs might be out there by means of authorities web sites, the place you’ll have the ability to get them organized by placing your automobile’s registration quantity and finishing a KYC.

• Once you apply for the OBU, you’ll must get it linked to your checking account.

• After the implementation of this toll assortment system, automobile producers would possibly simply begin promoting their automobiles with pre-installed OBUs, which you’ll then hyperlink to your checking account.

• Just like FASTags, banks and personal firms may also begin promoting OBUs.

• After putting in the OBU within the automobile, based mostly on the gap travelled, the toll quantity might be robotically deducted out of your linked checking account.

Will It Work In India?

The GPS-based toll assortment system will not be one thing new because it has already been carried out in nations like Germany and Singapore, and this method has labored in these nations. In India, the transfer in direction of digital transactions and know-how is at a quick tempo, which could simply make this new toll assortment system work, and its adoption may even not take a lot time as soon as vast scale implementation begins. 

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However, to do that, the present infrastructure based mostly round FASTags should be eliminated, the brand new infrastructure should be created, which is not going to solely take time, however may even be costly. The price of changing your complete infrastructure might find yourself on the shopper within the type of elevated toll costs. 

As of now, the thought of this new system appears nice, however the implementation and adoption is not going to be straightforward. If the federal government begins to work on it now, we’ll have to attend for round a decade for it to be carried out throughout the nation.