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PROPOSAL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN

ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION (ETC) SYSTEM


Table of Content• Electronic Toll Collection (ETC)• ETC system showing communication between in-vehicle tag and road

antenna• Relevant Statistics• Picture of Transponders• ETC as a Complementary tool in Transport mgt• Active tolling systems- Mexico-Puebla highway• E-tolling against Manual Tolling• ERP Gantry-Singapore• Lagos Scenario• Turnpike Tollgate, New Jersey• Korea Scenario• Picture of Over head Cameras• Beneficiaries• Complimentary Services/Options


ETC• The Electronic toll Collection (ETC) is a type of

technology that allows for an electronic payment of tolls.

• The use of payment “terminals”(internal unit, IU) or on-board unit(OBU) that will work on rays to effect payment. These IUs will be on every registered car

• Corresponding terminal and CCTV on gantry• Vehicle classification; Vehicle license

verification and the Drivers’ license verification


ETC system showing communication between in-vehicle tag and road antenna


RELEVANT STATISTICS• 70% of the toll roads in the USA use ETC• ETC reduced fuel consumption by 1.2m

gallons/year in New Jersey (E-Z Pass)• ETC systems can process 1000 vehicles/hour • ETC (E-Z Pass)caused a total annual saving of

$25.1m in 2000 in New Jersey• South Africa is building an ultra-modern ETC to

do 2m tolls/day and generate $500m/year• Implemented in Germany, Italy, Spain, South

Africa, UK, Singapore, Korea, Jamaica etc


Transponder used in some Chilean expressways


ETC , a Complementary Tool-Lagos• Open up the water ways• Open up the Rail ways• Create an integrated road transport scheme-

LAGBUS, BRTEncourage citizens to use the road transport

scheme by introducing electronic toll system

• ETC- A complementary approach towards the creation of an integrated transport solution


Toll gate San Marcos, at the Mexico-Puebla highway


E-toll against Manual toll• Speed• Convenience• Class• Safety• Cost effective• Data mgt and Security• Customer Service-mailed toll statements• Better audit control• Shorter or no queues• Efficiency• Reduced drain on public monies, leakages• Reduced personnel cost• Reduced Air pollution


ERP gantry, North Bridge Road, Singapore


LAGOS scenario• Conservatively, 70% of Coys in Nigeria have their H/Q in

Lagos. Office expansion (more cars), staff buying cars• Lagos having more water bodies than land for roads (roads

more expensive to build), • an estimated 80% of the private cars are not fully utilized,

(wasted space-more traffic, wasted man hours, wasted fuel, wasted time, economic loss because of wear and tear on the individual and cars;

• there is a need to indirectly discourage people from using cars when there are alternatives

• If not, checked, we may experience traffic right inside our Compounds all the way down to the offices.


Turnpike Toll gate, New Jersey


Korea scenario• Automobile ownership in Korea increased from just over 2

million in 1988 to over 11 million in 1999 resulting in 40% annual increase.

• During the same time, the capacity of road expansion resulted in an annual average increase of 3% in highways, and close to 5% on the national roads.

• The above growth imbalance between road capacity and automobile increases resulted in severe traffic congestion on major highways in Korea

• 45% of National Highways have experienced heavy congestion• 28% of the National roads in a similar situation • Cost the Korean economy $13B in 1998 and further $1.5B

annually• Introduced the Hi Pass toll collection system


Overhead cameras used to capture rear plate numbers


BENEFICIARIES• The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC)• State licensing offices• Road Concessionaire (LCC, Bi-Courteny etc)• State and Federal Governments• State security Services• The Nigerian Police• The Federal Ministry of Transport and Works• Other state road law enforcement agencies like

LASTMA • Road Users


Complimentary Services/Options

• Italy’s ETC programmes include as Viacard, Telepass and Fastpay systems.

• Viacard Plus can be used not only for motorway tolls but also to pay for oil and fuel at participating ESSO and AGIP service stations.

• (Autostrade S.p.A. issues holders of the card a monthly invoice and statement. Payments are charged to your bank account.)

• E-Toll implementation may be come as follows• High Speed High fare• Low Speed Low Fare


Companies involved• Terminals and Printers: Sales and distribution of the

transponders, antennas and associated terminals etc • SuperCard: Software development, smart

integration, Card verification, drivers license, payment back end, vehicle license verification etc

• Paymaster: Payment verification, software development, Payment backend, e-toll infrastructure etc

• ChamsSwitch: Transaction switching


Comments and Recommendations• KRV; Looking at smaller projects for a start., e.g.

Abuja and Lagos Airport. Also to work on Identity management and payment for a start.

• Since our aim is fee collection, payment could be tied to either drivers license or vehicle license.

• SOW; SuperCard already working on fare collection with the use of card.

• FE; Existence of too many influence groups might slow down the project, so we should focus on the basics (money collection)


Comments and Recommendations• CU; the Value Proposition in this project is the

security provided through Vehicle Identification, reducing car theft.

• Obinna; Introducing an incentive such that those who pay with card would spend less than those who pay with cash.

• Peter; Congestion pricing- reduction in cost during off-peak hours.

• ABA; to begin the project with a comprehensive approach.


ABA’s Comments• Advantages of the Value Added Service

include;• Security – monitoring of stolen cars• Creation of a complete database of existing

cars.• Revenue generation• Traffic decongestion• Development of a payment system/gateway


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