Driver’s confusion: Will the GNSS on-board unit installed in vehicles work in other states as well ?

Jyoti — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 04:48:52 +0000

There is confusion among drivers regarding toll collection through on-board unit, whether the on-board unit installed in vehicles will work only in the state where it has been installed or will it work in other states as well. Know here-

New Delhi. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued a notification for toll collection through Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) on-board unit. This is creating confusion among drivers whether the on-board unit installed in vehicles will work only in the state where it has been installed or will it work in other states as well. The officials of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways themselves are answering this question.

According to Anurag Jain, Secretary of the Ministry and Suman Prasad Singh, Joint Secretary of Highway Toll, the work of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) on-board unit will not be given to any one operator. Rather, there will be three to four operators for this work, so that there is no monopoly of any one operator. Apart from this, having more operators will increase accuracy, which was not possible with just one operator.

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Will work all over the country

Its biggest advantage will be that the on-board unit installed in one state will work in another state as well. This way it can be understood that the on-board unit installed in Delhi will work on the Delhi-Mumbai as well as Bengaluru Mysore Expressway. In this way it will work on highways in any corner of the country. Drivers can get the on-board unit installed from any state.

Operators will be decided next month

In response to the question when the Global Navigation Satellite System will start, he said that the process will start soon. A period of one month has been set for the notification. After this, operators will be decided. Then it will be started as a pilot project on about five highways.

Benefits to drivers

This will benefit drivers. They will have to pay for the number of kilometres they travel. Currently, tolls are charged at fixed intervals. The driver has to go to the toll plaza to exit. After this, he exits the expressway. But after the on-board unit is installed, he can get off at any place.

Toll plazas new rules- Toll will be deducted from the vehicle’s number plate, full details of the vehicle will be visible on the screen

Jyoti — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 04:19:40 +0000

Toll plazas new rules- India is preparing to collect toll through ANPR cameras at toll plazas. This will ensure faster automatic toll payment and curb fraud.

There is going to be a radical change in the way toll fee is collected at toll plazas in the country. For this, automatic number plate recognition cameras i.e. ANPR cameras will be installed at toll plazas. With their help, toll tax will be deducted from the number plate of the vehicle instead of Fastag.

The work of installing the new system has also started at one toll each in Hisar and Rohtak districts of Haryana. After about two months, toll tax will start being deducted from the number plate of the vehicle at both these toll nakas. One advantage of this will also be that if a fake number plate is installed on the vehicle, then that too will be caught.

After the trial at these two toll plazas is successful, it will be implemented first in Haryana and then in other states of the country. Toll companies believe that this will stop fraud at toll plazas. When the new system is implemented, the vehicle’s number plate will also be linked to the bank account linked to Fastag so that as soon as the vehicle reaches the toll, the camera recognizes the number plate and deducts the toll tax.

This is the ANPR system

Automatic number plate recognition based scanning cameras and new computer systems are being installed at Ramayan Toll Plaza in Hisar and Rohtak Toll. These cameras recognize the number plates and make them digital. The special thing about these cameras is that these cameras will be very powerful and will scan the plate instantly.

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The vehicle number and model will also be visible on the screen.

As soon as the vehicle comes near the toll, a red light will be lit. The vehicle will stand there until the operator turns the light green. Along with this, the vehicle number and model of the vehicle stopped to pay the toll will also be written on the screen. If the driver’s fastag is not working, then as soon as the number plate is scanned, a message will be sent to the toll company from the bank’s server. It will also tell whether this fastag is original or not.

HSRP contains complete details.

Now in India, vehicles are fitted with high-security registration plates i.e. HSRP. All the information related to the vehicle is available from such number plates. The government has started installing these special number plates in 2019 itself. The government then asked all passenger vehicles to install company fitted number plates.

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