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SMART MOBILITY 2018

Electronic Tolling

Strategies for Indian Highways

Making the opening address at the
Session on Highway Technology.
Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary-Transport,

MoRTH, explained challenges in
technology implementation and the

various technologies being put in place.

olling has been a very, reduced, it is going to be a real saving. could use it for our best purposes. So
debatable issue as far as If the fuel is lost, if the time is lost that is what efficiency in tolling is all
the road and road users and if the vehicle is lying idle nobody about.
are concerned. This is an is gaining. The slow track speeds on Though manual tolling works
Tarea which probably in highways and delays at toll plazas cost in some cases, we cannot always
not liked by the users but then if you the country about Rs 50,000Cr a year. handle peak traffic and continue with
want good roads, the cost of good Jensen Huang who is the President the existing manpower. So, naturally
roads has to be borne by somebody. of NVIDIA, has said that artificial electronic tolling having been very
The idea of tolling is very simple intelligence was nothing but how we common across the world and India
that the stretches which are being could identify the waste and how we has also chosen that.
used, have to be paid for. There are
veritable concepts which have come
across in recent years and all along,
the Ministry and the various states,
have been blamed for not having an
effective and efficient tolling solution.
Now world over, we have seen
that tolling has become absolutely
seamless and it is also the vision of the
Ministry that tolling must absolutely
seamless, efficient and error free.
These are the three components
around which all the solutions have
been working.
Why is Electronic tolling important?
Our logistic cost is one of the highest
in the world. If the logistic cost can be

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