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TECHNOLOGY
Chaos to Clarity:
How Automation Can Help
India’s Highways and Parking
The Digital Revolution e can narrow Identifying the Tailored
down on a few
that has transformed objectives such as Solutions
What kind of solutions should the
ensuring smooth
the way of doing Wtraffic at toll plazas concessionaires or stakeholders be
business across so that more vehicles can access the looking for augmenting their toll
the world has highways per unit time, ensuring plazas?
digital payments in a monumental
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on
deeply impacted way to make the collections formal imaging or vision that can identify
the Indian business and swifter, etc. The embracement of a vehicle via number plate and other
enabler technologies should be faster
and governance and present a favourable ROI. vectors and also identify the vehicle
class at real-time will eliminate FASTag
landscape too. Since Highways for The Future – errors.
India is a developing A Vision for a vehicle, the money can still be
Even if a FASTag has not been read
economy, the horizon The mandate around FASTag deducted from the user’s account
for improvements are that the government, NHAI, banks by mapping the Vehicle Registration
and concessionaires have been
much wider. Given that, implementing in coordination must Number to the FASTag identifier.
Hardware vehicle classifiers installed
it is challenging for ensure that a large proportion of the at the toll plazas come at a cost to
travellers on highways pay the toll
the decision makers digitally. The ecosystem will, thus, have maintain and do not have optimal
accuracy levels. Moreover, the way
to identify the perfect to brace up for technological issues, the installation has been done, they
FASTag misreads, disputes around
starting point. explains amounts, duplicate transactions, identify the vehicle class after the
vehicle has moved through the toll
Sumeet Mahapatra, handling of exemptions, real-time lane.
audits and reconciliation issues.
Co-founder, Stackfusion Resolving these issues shall push the An artificial intelligence-based Toll
Pvt Ltd stakeholders to look for technological Management System will identify the
upgrades that come at a reasonable vehicle and class, validate its FASTag
long-term cost. Unless those and accordingly calculate the fare
turnarounds happen soon, the state before even the transaction is made
highway authorities and autonomous and, this entire operation takes place
expressway authorities would be within milli-seconds to ensure a
reluctant to adopt FASTag on their toll seamless vehicle movement through
points. the toll lane.
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