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Fairness on the Go: The Role of Overlays in Road Usage Charge Programs
In the context of geographic positioning systems (GPS) and geofencing, the term “overlay” refers to a technique in which multiple geofences are layered on top of one another, with each geofence representing a specific location or area. An overlay can be used to create a more detailed or accurate representation of a physical area than…
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Protecting Toll Agency Revenues and Reducing Pay-by-Plate Fees to Customers
How it Works: The GeoToll mobile payment solution consists of an application downloaded to your smartphone. Upon activation, it starts to send GPS information to pinpoint the vehicle’s location around the toll plazas according to the user’s privacy choice. A server collects and enhances GPS information from each customer’s smartphone application. It then compares the…
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E-GPS: Low Risk & High Reward
Does E-GPS have risks? Like any technology – like any human, group or corporate action, really – it does. But they are known and easily mitigated. The first risk pertains to E-GPS’ dependence on the smartphone, a carry-in, self-powered device. While 99% or more of drivers of toll roads carry them, but on rare occasions,…
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E-GPS 101: How it Works and Why It’s the Future
The smartphone has emerged as a foundational tool for digital transformation in the public sector. Transportation is an area that will benefit greatly from wider smartphone use. Transportation agencies can now deploy a new smartphone toll payment technology – one tested repeatedly and working as well as or better than RFID – to manage toll…
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E-GPS: The Value Proposition
The pandemic became a watershed moment for toll operators, who in light of the severe economic circumstances of many of their users, quickly adapted their business models to embrace the concept of ‘inclusion.’ In short, anyone should be able to use the road when they need it. And, All Electronic Tolling was there for them.…
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GeoToll E-GPS in 60 Seconds
GeoToll built a tolling solution called “Enhanced-GPS,” a technology which improves upon the smartphone’s location functionality to increase location-accuracy at a toll point. E-GPS, alongside other proprietary GeoToll technologies, provides highly spacially-accurate (accuracy at the “lane-level”) and precise millisecond timing to identify a particular vehicle passing through any virtual gantry (a software-defined location), which can…
