Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) & Electronic Road Charging System (ERC)

Electronic Toll Collection / Electronic Road Charging is the fastest growing method of collecting revenue and it is the most environmental friendly approach to Road Charging. Every procedure in ETC / ERC is being automated and as shown in the diagram each vehicle should have a transponder.

The main functionality of the ETC / ERC is summarized in:

• Vehicle detection including classification by means of vehicle height and axle count. Optional Speed measurement is also available
• Electronic Toll Collection based on radio communication with On-Board Units (OBUs)
• Matching of OBUs and vehicles in order to distinguish between OBU equipped and non-equipped vehicles
• Storage of vehicle passage information and transactions according to legal requirements
• Vehicle Registration based on Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
• Enforcement functionality.
• Supervision and monitoring of the toll plaza's operations.
• Fully customizable interface with mutiple languages, customer friendly graphics and color options is supported