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NationalPass
NationalPass is an interoperable service created by TransCore, which is designed to eventually provide single transponder access to all public toll roads and bridges in North America. Background Currently there are 13 different networks of toll highways in the United States. Transponders used with each network are not interoperable with the other networks, requiring trucking companies and individual drivers who travel between those networks to maintain multiple transponders. In 2012, Congress passed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, and among its provisions are requirements to ease the burden of tolled interstate travel by providing a single interoperable toll tag and account. NationalPass was designed to meet the 2016 federal deadline without requiring toll agencies to retrofit old toll stations. Implementation NationalPass tags include transponders for IAG/TDM (e.g. E-ZPass), SeGo (e.g. TxTag), Title-21 (e.g. FasTrak), and ATA (e.g. EZ TAG EZ TAG is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TxTag
TxTag , operated by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), is one of three interoperable electronic toll collection systems in Texas. The system is also interoperable with the K-TAG system used in Kansas and the Pikepass system used in Oklahoma. Current system status The TxTag brand name is used on the following highways: * Operated by TxDOT: **the Central Texas Turnpike System, which encompasses SH 130, bypassing Austin to the east, SH 45, an east–west road roughly straddling the Austin-Round Rock boundary, and the northern portion of Loop 1 (Mopac) on Austin's north side ** Loop 49, bypass of Tyler. ** SH 99 a.k.a.. Grand Parkway the third loop around Houston (partial). * Operated by the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority: ** 183A, a toll bypass of US 183 through Leander. CTRMA is planning several other toll road projects throughout the Austin metropolitan area, which are planned to accept TxTag. Interoperability In 2003, all Greater Houston area tol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Electronic Toll Collection Systems
This is a list of electronic toll collection systems in use on toll roads throughout the world. Africa South Africa Open Road (ORT) E-tolling on the Gauteng Freeway system started on 3 December 2013. The cost for the ETC system to toll 187 km of roads was R20bn. ''Electronic Toll Collection (Pty) Ltd'' (ETC), a subsidiary of Kapsch, Kapsch TrafficCom AG, is the contracted company that designed, built and is still operating the system, and in turn oversees the ''Transaction Clearing House'' (TCH) which oversees customer accounts, and the ''Violation Processing Centre'' (VPC) which will follow procedures against payment defaulters. Vehicles are identified electronically without any cash Transaction processing system, transactions taking place on the road or highway. Vehicle identification is facilitated by an e-tag or a vehicle Automatic number plate recognition, license plate number which is recorded by overhead cameras installed on Gantry (road sign), gantries, and interp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FasTrak
FasTrak is the electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the state of California in the United States. The system is used statewide on all of the toll roads, toll bridges, and high-occupancy toll lanes along the California Freeway and Expressway System. As with other ETC systems, FasTrak is designed to eliminate the need for cars to stop to pay at toll booths, thus decreasing the traffic congestion traditionally associated with toll roads. Its use of technology to improve transit is in line with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems initiative. Under California's government structure, the state's toll facilities are operated by various agencies and special-purpose districts. Concerned that they would each introduce different, incompatible ETC systems, the California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 1523 in 1990, requiring the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to develop a statewide specification that all these t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EZ TAG
EZ TAG is an electronic toll collection system in Houston, Texas, United States, that allows motorists to pay tolls without stopping at toll booths. Motorists with the tags are allowed to use lanes reserved exclusively for them on all Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) roads. As of late 2003, the EZ TAG can also be used on all lanes of tolled roadways in Texas that accommodate electronic toll collection. How it works To participate, a driver signs up through the EZ TAG website, via telephone, or at one of the store locations. Next, the customer receives a small, white radio frequency transponder which must be affixed to the inside of their windshield behind their rear view mirror. Finally, when passing through a toll plaza, the driver chooses lanes specially equipped with sensors that can read EZ TAG transmitters and deduct the appropriate amount from their accounts. Houston Transtar uses EZ TAG sensors, which are placed at numerous points across Greater Houston, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TransCore
Roper Technologies, Inc. (formerly Roper Industries, Inc.) is an American diversified industrial company that produces engineered products for global niche markets. The company is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida. Roper provides a wide range of products and services to customers in over 100 countries. The company has four main business lines: Industrial Technology, Radio Frequency (RF) Technology, Scientific and Industrial Imaging, and Energy Systems and Controls. Roper joined the Russell 1000 index in 2004, and has annual revenues of more than US$1.23 billion, as of 2017. History George D. Roper founded the company in 1890, primarily as a manufacturer of home appliances, pumps, and other industrial products. Roper initiated a corporate acquisition program, supported by an initial public offering, in 1992. In 1906 George D. Roper acquires Trahern Pump Co. In 1957 George D. Roper sold its stove business to The Florence Stove Co. of Kankakee, Il. It would continue to oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transponder
In telecommunications, a transponder is a device that, upon receiving a signal, emits a different signal in response. The term is a blend word, blend of ''transmitter'' and ''responder''. In air navigation or radio frequency identification, a Transponder (aeronautics), flight transponder is an automated transceiver in an aircraft that emits a coded identifying signal in response to an interrogating received signal. In a communications satellite, a Transponder (satellite communications), satellite transponder receives signals over a range of uplink frequencies, usually from a satellite ground station; the transponder amplifies them, and re-transmits them on a different set of downlink frequencies to receivers on Earth, often without changing the content of the received signal or signals. Satellite/broadcast communications A communications satellite’s Communication channel, channels are called transponders because each is a separate transceiver or repeater. With digital video d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moving Ahead For Progress In The 21st Century Act
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) is a funding and authorization bill to govern United States federal surface transportation spending. It was passed by Congress on June 29, 2012, and President Barack Obama signed it on July 6. The vote was 373–52 in the House of Representatives and 74–19 in the Senate. The $105 billion two-year bill does not significantly alter total funding from the previous authorization, but does include many significant reforms. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that enacting MAP-21 will reduce the federal budget deficit over the 2012–22 period by $16.3 billion. Key provisions * The number of funding programs is consolidated by two-thirds. * The environmental review process is reformed in an effort to speed up project development. More projects will be categorically excluded from review, and there will be a four-year review deadline enforced with financial penalties. (In 2011 the average review took 8.1 years.) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic Technology Today
Traffic comprises pedestrians, vehicles, ridden or herded animals, trains, and other conveyances that use public ways (roads) for travel and transportation. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic laws and informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic. Organized traffic generally has well-established priorities, lanes, right-of-way, and traffic control at intersections. Traffic is formally organized in many jurisdictions, with marked lanes, junctions, intersections, interchanges, traffic signals, or signs. Traffic is often classified by type: heavy motor vehicle (e.g., car, truck), other vehicle (e.g., moped, bicycle), and pedestrian. Different classes may share speed limits and easement, or may be segregated. Some jurisdictions may have very detailed and complex rules of the road while others rely more on drivers' common sense and willingness to cooperate. Organization typi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-ZPass
E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern United States, Midwestern United States, and Southern United States. The E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG) consists of member agencies in several states, which use the same technology and allow travelers to use the same transponder on toll roads throughout the network. Since its creation in 1987, various independent systems that use the same technology have been folded into the E-ZPass system, including the I-PASS in Illinois and the NC Quick Pass in North Carolina. Negotiations are ongoing for nationwide interoperability in the United States (see ). Functionality Technology E-ZPass tags are active RFID transponders, historically made by Kapsch#Kapsch TrafficCom AG (KTC), Kapsch TrafficCom (formerly Mark IV Industries Corp—IVHS Division) under a competitively bid contract. They communicate with reader equipment built into lane-based or Open road tolling, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newark Star-Ledger
Newark most commonly refers to: * Newark, New Jersey, city in the United States * Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey; a major air hub in the New York metropolitan area Newark may also refer to: Places Canada * Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, once called Newark Germany * Neuwerk (traditional English name Newark), an island and quarter of Hamburg in the German Bight * Great Tower Neuwerk, tower on the German island Neuwerk, synonymously called Newark in older English texts United Kingdom * Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England * Newark, Orkney, a hamlet on Sanday, Scotland * Newark, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, a hamlet * Newark Wapentake, a former administrative division * Newark Castle, Fife * Newark Castle, Selkirkshire * Newark Park, a country house and estate in Gloucestershire * Port Glasgow, Scotland, called Newark until 1667 ** Newark Castle, Port Glasgow United States * Newark, Arkansas * Newark, California * Newark, Delaware * Newark, Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
