June 10 (Punjab Khabarnama) : The Government of India is planning to start satellite based electronic toll collection in the country. First of all it will be implemented for commercial vehicles. After this, this technology will also be implemented for private cars, jeeps and vans in a phased manner. There is a plan to install this Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at all toll collection points in the next two years. This will end the work of toll plaza and fastag.
This is how the planning is being done
The new technology will provide relief from the jam at the toll plaza. Under this technology, the user will have to pay the toll according to the distance traveled. The GNSS based toll system will be barrier-free electronic toll collection, in which the movement of the vehicle will be tracked to determine how many kilometers that vehicle has traveled.
This will be the specialty
The National Highway Authority of India, working under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, has invited global companies to implement the GNSS-based electronic toll collection system in India. Every toll plaza will have two or more GNSS lanes, with advance readers that will identify GNSS vehicles. Non-GNSS vehicles entering the GNSS lane will be charged extra. The GNSS based tolling system will be implemented on 2,000 km of national highways in the first three months. After this, it has been targeted to increase it to 10,000 km in the next nine months and 25,000 km of toll highways and 50,000 km in 15 months.
Let us tell you that currently there is a Fastag ecosystem in India, in which electronic toll collection radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is used, which was introduced in 2015 as Fastag.