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TOLLING

Toll Management System aims to roll

Issues with Manual out a web-based real-time integrated
Tolling solution that would be approached

As discussed in the previous by all stakeholders to handle various
exhibit, the toll collection system
is largely a manual exercise with issues related to FASTag operations
a ticket collector, collecting cash
from the users, giving them the
receipt and opening the toll
gate to allow the vehicle to pass highways over the next five years a toll plaza after completing the
through. The potential time wastage and at a cost of roughly 7 lakhsCr. activities described above: six
associated with this exercise may be The Union Minister for Minister of seconds
highlighted via this simple example: Road Transport and Highways of • Number of vehicles crossing the
• Time taken by a vehicle to cross India has further clarified the policy Toll Plaza per day : 100
a toll plaza after completing the on toll collection: “Good roads save • Average Stop time per vehicle
activities described above: 60 on fuel and time and give life a (per plaza per month): 60 * 30
seconds security. If you want good services, = 1,80 seconds, or three minutes
• If the number of vehicles you will have to pay for it.” • Total waiting time for the vehicle
crossing the Toll Plaza per day: A more prudent approach to per year = 3 * 12 = 36 minutes
100 reduce the wastage may be to switch or 0.6 hours.
• Average stop time per vehicle over to electronic system of toll As evident, the average waiting
(per plaza per month): 60 * 30 collection, the subsequent sections time and the potential wastages
= 1800 seconds, or 30 minutes capture the potential savings that stand to be reduced by one tenth
• Total waiting time for the vehicle may be achievable via Electronic by the ETC – no wonder that the
per year = 30 * 12 = 360 minutes Tolling, the roadblocks in achieving Government has been aggressively
or 6 hours. the targets, and the roadmap that pushing for the program. The
the country is planning to adopt to
It means, one vehicle could spend technology chosen for the electronic
an average of six hours per year in achieve the true potential of the tolling is based on RFID (Radio
idling time even if it crosses just one program. Frequency Identification) that
plaza per year. The above numbers Case for Electronic Tolling ensures fast, reliable and cost-
appear incredibly conservative, when effective processing at toll plazas,
we consider that there are plazas We may like to revisit the earlier known as FASTag.
with more than hundred thousand example for potential savings via the The FASTag growth story
vehicles per day with a waiting time ETC for the truck operator.
of 5 to 10 minutes per vehicle. It is • Time taken by a vehicle to cross The growth of FASTag in India can
no wonder that a study conducted
Transport Corporation of India TCI
& IIM Kolkata in (2013) states “the
slow truck speeds on highways and
delays at toll plazas cost the country
about Rs 60,000 crore a year.”
However, despite the potential
wastage, the Toll Collection is
an imperative component of the
strategy for building roads with the
road and highways ministry aiming
to construct further 83,677 km of

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