Latest Electronic toll collection Stories
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Months of toll-free commuting, and plenty of weekend trips to San Francisco. That's how Oakland resident Helen Simmons figures she will use the $1,000 in free tolls she received this week from the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) in appreciation for opening the 1 millionth FasTrak® electronic toll collection account in the nine-county region. The FasTrak system has been in operation on Bay Area toll bridges since 2000. Simmons, who commutes across...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Research's Gerardo Sandoval will moderate the panel, The Crossroads of Telco: Redefining the Business?, at Andicom-International ICT Congress taking place in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, October 27-29, 2010. Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) is proud to be a partner of this event. Andicom-International ICT Congress (http://www.andicom.org.co/) is an annual project sponsored by the Telecommunications Research Center of Colombia (CINTEL),...
TORONTO, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- MARK IV IVHS (MARK IV), a global technology leader and innovator of Intelligent Transportation Systems, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with OHL Concesiones (Obrascon Huerte Lain) to deploy its latest RFID technology on major toll roads in Mexico City. The agreement includes providing MARK IV's new JANUS® high-performance, multiprotocol reader and Total System Performance Management Services. The Viaducto Elevado...
TORONTO, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MARK IV IVHS, a global technology leader and innovator of Intelligent Transportation Systems, will be showcasing several industry solutions including its recently introduced JANUS® Multiprotocol Reader at The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association's (IBTTA) 78th Annual Meeting and Exhibition. The JANUS Multiprotocol Reader incorporates the company's core JANUS technology with multiprotocol "plug n play" reader modules capable of supporting...
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a growing awareness that America's aging network of highways, bridges and tunnels is in failing health, huge roadblocks are preventing Congressional action on a new national transportation bill: the lack of adequate funding sources and consensus on a vision that helps plan, prioritize and pay for U.S. infrastructure. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
MIAMI, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- This Saturday, July 17, 2010, Open Road Tolling (ORT) will begin on the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority's (MDX) SR 874/Don Shula Expressway and SR 878/Snapper Creek Expressway. With ORT, overhead gantries will automatically collect a toll based on distance traveled eliminating the need for conventional toll plazas. Drivers traveling north on SR 874 through the existing toll plaza will continue to pay the current $1.00 toll rate (SunPass) if traveling the...
IRVINE, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Federal Signal Technologies' group company PIPS Technology Limited ("PIPS"), a global provider of camera technology, announces that it has entered into a contract with Konlakorn Co. Limited of Bangkok to supply PIPS' latest integrated ALPR camera technology for the Government of Thailand's Electronic Vehicle Registration (EVR) Systems project. The initial order value of US$0.5 million for delivery and installation by October 2010 is expected...
SAINT PAUL, Minn., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Image Sensing Systems, Inc. ("ISS" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ISNS) announced today that it has acquired all of the outstanding stock of CitySync Limited, a UK based, privately-held developer and marketer of automatic license (or number) plate recognition technology ("ANPR"), for initial consideration of $7.9 million in cash and 57,000 restricted shares of ISS common stock (valued at $727,000 as of the previous day's closing price). In...
OAKLAND, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- With just two weeks to go before a toll increase on the region's seven state-owned toll bridges, the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) reminds drivers that several important changes take effect July 1. These include the debut of congestion pricing -- also known as time-of-day pricing -- on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which is by far the region's busiest toll bridge. Beginning July 1, auto tolls on the Bay Bridge will vary from $4 during...
TORONTO, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- MARK IV IVHS, a global technology leader and innovator of Intelligent Transportation Solutions (ITS) was awarded "Outstanding ITS Project of the Year, Traffic Information Systems" from the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York. MARK IV partnered with MTA Bridges & Tunnels, Dunn Engineering Associates, P.C., E-Transit, Inc., JHK Engineering, P.C., TRANSCOM, Kleinberg Electric, Inc., and the Liro Group, who were all recognized for the improved...
