National highways to have electronic tolling system by year end
Updated: May 22, 2014 12:52:38pm
New Delhi, May 22 (KNN) In an effort to ease road transportation and make its systems efficient the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is planning to implement radio frequency ID (RFID) based electronic toll collection (ETC) across all the toll plazas on national highways in the country by year end.
“The RFID technology shall expedite the clearing of traffic at toll plazas and the need of carrying cash shall also be eliminated when Toll plazas shall be duly integrated with each other throughout India,” said Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Vijay Chibber.
Chibber was speaking at a workshop here yesterday on tolling of national highways and implementation of ETC.
He said the government has issued orders to incorporate ETC lanes as a mandatory clause in the contracts awarded for all the highways projects.
A pilot project on Interoperability of ETC system for 10 toll plazas between Mumbai (Charoti) and Ahmedabad has already been tested and is successfully operational at present.
The ministry has also proposed to launch a seamless ETC service on the NH-8 from Delhi to Mumbai in a couple of weeks.
A new company “Indian Highways Management Company Limited” (IHMCL) with equity participation from NHAI (25 per cent), concessionaires (50 per cent) and financial institutions (25 per cent) has already been constituted to implement ETC on plan basis.
The objectives of the company are collection of toll through ETC and to manage the project strategically, administratively, legally, technically, commercially and to provide services of a central system which includes toll transaction clearing house operations, help desk support and setting up of call centre for incident management.
IHMCL has already finalised the service provider agreement for central clearing house (CCH) services for ETC with the ICICI Bank and has placed orders for first consignment of hardware’s for 20 toll plazas on NHAI managed highways stretches.
National highways are tolled under the provisions of the National Highways Act 1956.
The first major stretch brought under toll was Kotputli - Amer section of NH-8 from March 30, 1998. At present, 15,506 kilometre length of the national highways is under tolling through 302 toll plazas.
There are 374 toll plazas in the country out of which 164 are under BOT (Toll), 138 under public funded and 72 are on bridges.
Ministry RTH, Joint Secretary, Alkesh Sharma and senior officers of the ministry, representatives from the states and UTs, transport organizations and other stakeholders participated in the workshop. (KNN/ST)
“The RFID technology shall expedite the clearing of traffic at toll plazas and the need of carrying cash shall also be eliminated when Toll plazas shall be duly integrated with each other throughout India,” said Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Vijay Chibber.
Chibber was speaking at a workshop here yesterday on tolling of national highways and implementation of ETC.
He said the government has issued orders to incorporate ETC lanes as a mandatory clause in the contracts awarded for all the highways projects.
A pilot project on Interoperability of ETC system for 10 toll plazas between Mumbai (Charoti) and Ahmedabad has already been tested and is successfully operational at present.
The ministry has also proposed to launch a seamless ETC service on the NH-8 from Delhi to Mumbai in a couple of weeks.
A new company “Indian Highways Management Company Limited” (IHMCL) with equity participation from NHAI (25 per cent), concessionaires (50 per cent) and financial institutions (25 per cent) has already been constituted to implement ETC on plan basis.
The objectives of the company are collection of toll through ETC and to manage the project strategically, administratively, legally, technically, commercially and to provide services of a central system which includes toll transaction clearing house operations, help desk support and setting up of call centre for incident management.
IHMCL has already finalised the service provider agreement for central clearing house (CCH) services for ETC with the ICICI Bank and has placed orders for first consignment of hardware’s for 20 toll plazas on NHAI managed highways stretches.
National highways are tolled under the provisions of the National Highways Act 1956.
The first major stretch brought under toll was Kotputli - Amer section of NH-8 from March 30, 1998. At present, 15,506 kilometre length of the national highways is under tolling through 302 toll plazas.
There are 374 toll plazas in the country out of which 164 are under BOT (Toll), 138 under public funded and 72 are on bridges.
Ministry RTH, Joint Secretary, Alkesh Sharma and senior officers of the ministry, representatives from the states and UTs, transport organizations and other stakeholders participated in the workshop. (KNN/ST)
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