Do not have to stop to pay toll on the highway

1990/12/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Ingeniaritza

From the beginning of the year on the motorway between Paris and Normandy you can pay the toll without stopping the car. The car slows down the vehicle because the road is narrower, but in the rest you won't have to put your hand in your pocket and the alarm won't its speed.

Ordinary drivers must stop the car and take out money or bank magnetic card. There they wait for the turn, seeing that other privileged drivers advance without waiting for anyone in a txistu.

Privileged drivers are 10,000 people selected among subscribers. These will also pay their toll, of course, but otherwise. When you pass your car, an antenna (black in the image) detects a magnetic card attached to the front glass (inside and left). Each magnetic card contains the data of your vehicle and sends the antennas that you detect to the computer center from where the invoice is sent to the owner.

This is a similar system in Lyon. The card that will have the car stuck will be something different. As in the cards for the French phone, in each pass will be discounted an amount that will eventually be exhausted. Once the card is sold out, it can be recharged.

In this second system, the car driver is not identified and seems to be better to keep his private life hidden.

The goal of these toll systems without stopping in the car is to eliminate the congestion that occurs on the highways. Norway, Holland, etc. They are also trying to establish these forms of payment. However, the European Commission has carried out a project called Pamela to serve throughout Europe for 1992.