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Innovative, comprehensive, cost-effective toll consulting services, solutions and products to South African
National Roads Agency and other clients for 35 years.
Current Flagship project
Design and roll-out supervision of toll system, toll infrastructure and 10-year operations and maintenance of Gauteng
Open Road Tolling Scheme (200km) as well as establishment of a national Transaction Clearing House and Violations
Processing Centre to achieve interoperable Electronic Toll Collection in South Africa.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike has a reputation for innovation. Its current
technological centrepiece is the award-winning CAAR (Catch it early,
Act, Analyze and Review) GIS (geographic information system) for traffic
management, which can even be accessed via a giant touchscreen
Hailed as America’s
First Superhighway, the
Pennsylvania Turnpike was
born from the hardship of
the Great Depression. By the 1930s,
mass-produced automobiles demanded
new paved highways and President
Roosevelt established a series of
federally-funded New Deal projects to
remedy high unemployment, including
a new Pennsylvania toll-road. The
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
(PTC) was founded in 1937 and the first
166-mile stretch from Irwin to Carlisle
opened just after midnight on October 1,
1940. Today, the 552-mile Turnpike spans
the state east-west from Pittsburgh to
Philadelphia, carrying 550,000 vehicles
daily. The historic road has become
a testbed for state-of-the-art innovation,
with PTC winning two International
Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association
(IBTTA) Technology Awards in three
years and securing the coveted
President’s Award in 2019 with its CAAR
data platform. This record of success has
been built on valuing failure.
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that include a new, award winning
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42 NEW W A YS TO PAY
Could road user charging turn all
roads into toll roads, in the future?
We compare and contrast recent
RUC pilots in the USA and beyond
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Transport and tolling consultant
Rob Bain shares his stunning
photographs of toll roads from
around the world
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With over three million vehicles using
electronic toll collection in the country,
Turkey has invested substantially in the
business of highway tolling
Dr Erkan Dorken, Aselsan, Turkey
58 LOWIMPACT,
ONEBOX SOLUTION
The need for traffi c control is
increasing, but as it does, so cities and
governments are becoming more sensitive
about unsightly infrastructure. Compact
solutions are required…
Heimo Haub, Efkon, Austria
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FUNDING CRISIS
Can new forms of tolling help to
avoid insolvency for the USA’s
Highway Trust Fund?
Jason Wall, A-to-Be, Portugal
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TOLLING
Introducing large-scale open-road
for similar projects elsewhere the Joseph King, Tolplan, South Africa
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that are considering road
user charging (RUC), have
implemented pilots, or have
ongoing programs
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We know that no two
communities are the
same, and yet, when it
comes to delivering new
technology and the systems to serve
them it’s easy to fall into the trap of
using a one-size-fits-all approach.
Pilots of road user charging (RUC)
across the USA are proof that, even
within the same nation, profoundly
different approaches are necessary in
order to achieve similar outcomes.
That there is a road-maintenance
funding problem and RUC should be
the way to solve it is a notion
increasingly accepted by
governments, highway authorities
and traffic managers the world over.
The question is how can drivers –
who have become used to the benefits
of more efficient vehicles that offer
more miles to the gallon, or even
‘infinite’ miles to the gallon with
electric – and the associated fuel and
tax savings – be persuaded into
paying their dues for using roads that
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Rob Bain is a UK-based chartered engineer who
has spent over 30 years in the toll road industry.
Today, Bain runs his own consultancy, RBconsult
(www.robbain.com), conducting commercial due diligence
of candidate investments in the international road and rail
sectors. He is also a keen photographer. A camera has
been his constant companion over the last 30 years on
various international site visits; from Asia to Africa to
Latin America. As a result, he has compiled the largest
private collection of toll road photographs in the world
– a small sample of which we are delighted to publish
here. We hope you enjoy them. Thanks Rob!
The bold neon sign on the Chicago Skyway Toll
Bridge helps to make it extremely memorable. The
50s styling is indicative of the decade in which it was
built. A toll must be paid for travelling the 7.8 mile
long ‘Skyway’ – completed in 1958 – that connects the
Indiana Toll Road and the Dan Ryan Expressway. The
toll was operated by the City of Chicago until January
2005 when Skyway Concession Company assumed its
operations under a 99 year lease.
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