Effective management of vehicle traffic is essential for highways, commercial sites, industrial sites, residential sites, airports, and parking areas. The manual entry of tolls may cause queues, delays, and increased workload. With the advancement in automation technology, organizations find it easier to manage their entry and toll systems. Automation technologies are essential parts of modern connected transportation system solutions, such as boom barriers and automated tolls.
Vehicle Controlled Access via Boom Barriers
Of course, Boom Barrier refers to an automated control device used to manage vehicle access or departure from a certain site. The barrier arm can be raised or lowered by access control equipment, RFIDs, ticketing systems, and other identification systems.
Boom barriers are commonly used in parking sites, toll booths, gated communities, office campuses, warehouses, industrial sites, and private roads. It may work with RFID vehicle identification system, automatic number plate recognition systems, access cards, and software.
Processing Speed Using Automated Toll Collection
The conventional toll collection methods may involve manual transaction processing, which can lead to congestion among vehicles at peak times. The Automated Toll Collection System is an integrated technology system that uses such systems as RFID, electronic payment system, vehicle identification system, camera systems, and lane control systems.
Vehicle identification through RFID makes sure that only the compliant vehicles can be identified as they enter the toll lane. The system will interact with back-end systems that will be used in processing of the corresponding transaction. There will be no need for manual involvement in many cases.
The Automated Toll Collection System can be implemented in various locations such as highway, bridge, tunnel, private roadways, and parking lots among other places requiring vehicle payments. Other technologies such as ANPR can also be incorporated into the system to offer another means of identification.
Solution for Integrated Management of Network Tolls
A Network Toll Solution offers solutions regarding RFID, toll management, automated parking, vehicle identification, and infrastructure for access control.
A Network Toll Solution will be able to incorporate multiple technologies such as RFID readers, RFID tags, Boom Barriers, cameras, sensors, and software. The integration of these will help the operators to manage vehicle identification, access control, toll transactions, and reporting by means of the interconnected infrastructure.
Also, the centralized software will help to gather valuable information related to transactions and vehicle flow. In this way, organizations will be able to monitor operations and to keep electronic data on them for management purposes.
Building Efficient Transportation Systems
Automation has altered the management of the vehicles on the roads, in parking lots, and controlled-access areas. Combination of a Boom Barrier with the RFID identification, cameras, and the Automated Toll Collection System can become a solution of organizing vehicle access and toll management.
In order to implement such a system, organizations need to take into account several factors such as traffic flows, lane design, payments, security issues, possibility of integration, and expansion.
