The first section of Via Alterna Sur (VAS) highway in Guatemala was opened in May. The installation configured by Tecsidel involves two plazas in Idesa - Mayan and San Miguel Petapa. These plazas contain 11 mixed lanes with cash and tag payment systems in addition to an express way.
The Toll system has been installed in collaboration with TAS as local integrator, and is designed to:
The system design facilitates new technologies integration and real-time performance as well as a large number of operations with reduced operating costs.
The system is built with a pyramidal structure that integrates the following operational levels:
Toll road: It integrates control functions of passing vehicles, toll collection, route equipment and record of anomalies generated.
Toll plaza: It integrates acquisition functions and records the information generated by toll roads, collectors statements, route equipment operations, control box, operation reports and analysis of anomalies produced.
Central system: It integrates acquisition, registration, consolidation and data processing functions of toll plazas, operations control, traffic and collection reports, fraud control, generation and exchange of information with external systems, and treatment and distribution of different types of data tables.