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From FASTag

to GNSS

How smooth will

the lane changing be?

One of the important technical sessions
at the International workshop on GNSS
facilitated by IHMCL in June in New Delhi
has been a panel discussion on OBU/
AIS 140 VLT Device, CMV & NH Fee Rule.

This session was followed by one on the
toll charger engine, the third on issuer
entities, onboarding and the payment

system and the fourth on changes in road
infrastructure to accommodate multi lane
free flow. Steered by S.P. Singh, Joint
Secretary, MoRTH and Apex Committee
Member, the first session panelists

included Amit Ranjan Chitranshi, he opening remark by A.R.
COO of IHMCL, who set the context, Chitranshi provided an overview of
the session discussing the future
Anshuman Roy, Director, Rosmerta integration of the government-
owned toll charger engines with
Technologies; Vadiraj Katti, Managing Tvehicle OBUs (On-Board Units).
Director, I-Triangle; Christian Perschl, These OBUs would send their location
Yunex Traffic, Austria; P.K. Banerjee, timestamps directly to the toll charger
Executive Director, SIAM, Alok Sethi, engine. The primary difference between
the current system and the future system
Associate Vice President, DIMTS; Bruno would be the toll calculation method.
Coudoin, Continental Automotive, Currently, tolls are fixed whenever a vehicle
Germany; K.C. Sharma, Chief Engineer passes a point and are processed through
the acquiring bank and the NPCI system.
(MVL), MoRTH; Ms. Praveena Rai, COO, In the future GNSS-based system, the toll

NPCI and Joydeep Shome, NIC Apex would be calculated by the toll charger, and
Committee Member. the existing FASTag ecosystem would still
be used.
S.P. Singh elaborated on proposed
amendments to the existing NH Fee

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