Category: Toll Systems & ITS Sala de Prensa

Tecsidel and Innovation Road Solutions (IRS), the only concessionaire that exists in the Republic of Tajikistan, are working on the Dushanbe-Chanak highway, the road that connect the two main cities of Tajikistan. The project was awarded in 2015 and has a strategic goal, because this means an important improvement in commercial transport established within bordering countries. It is a challenging environment that requires a modernization of current toll systems, that is why IRS chose Tecsidel, an international company with the most state-of-the-art solutions.

The project consists of 7 plazas and 52 lanes. A conventional open toll system combines manual and automatic payment options; so, the vehicle can pay in cash, by credit or debit card, Smart Card (MIFARE) and TAGs. As well of these well-known payment methods, Tecsidel has integrated the solution with the National Payment System, a specific and very popular system used by Russia and some countries in Central Asia.

24 of these lanes also have the necessary equipment to automatically classify the vehicle depending on its number of axles and vehicle height.

However, the most innovative point in this installation is the Weigh In Motion system that is incorporated in the other 28 lanes. This automatic system allows to classify vehicles based on each axle and vehicle weight, and it is not required to stop. So, in the toll plaza the vehicle will pay the fee according to its weight. 

The project includes a maintenance management solution (TMMS+) to monitor and control maintenance operations, allowing all incidences to be tracked until they are solved. It also includes the Back-Office solution with the following goals:

• Transactions, shifts and take


• Conciliation settlement


• Analyze all information registered in the reports


• Take actions based on analysis results


• Control the equipment of the system

Tecsidel has begun the installation of 2 plazas and 25 additional lanes in Rutas de Lima project (Peru). The supply and installation of the toll system will be located in North direction of Chillon’s highway integrating all lanes with the existing ones of South direction of Chillon, although these will be handled as two separate plazas due to the large volume of traffic.

This expansion project also includes Huaylas Plaza, which currently has temporary lanes, also installed by Tecsidel in the original project. Chillon Plaza will be operational in January 2017 to serve the peak in traffic due to summer vacations. However, Huaylas Plaza is expected to be operational in mid-2017. To summarize, there will be a total of 11 plazas and over 80 lanes.

The new lanes use the most advanced technology installed by Tecsidel, as in the other plazas (mixed and automatic), the reversible ones. It is necessary to mention that Tecsidel is piloting new photocell designs for detection and vehicle classification, which will be used soon to serve different customers.

These plazas will be integrated into the Tecsidel Toll Plus system, established worldwide and currently used in Rutas de Lima, and MEP electronic payment  method). This customer has pioneered the implementation of MEP, a new system that allows the management of electronic payment devices (tags) associated with user accounts. This system has been designed to provide electronic payment services interoperating with different concessionaires with one device and balance.

For the first time in Peru, Tecsidel has installed MEP system that allows the management of electronic payment devices (tags), associated with user accounts.

This system is designed to provide electronic payment services interoperating with different concessionaires with one device and balance. It allows to define user accounts that oneself can create and maintain, by recharging from any computer or Smartphone. The user must only enter his tag or plate number.

The system controls tags assigned to each vehicle and can share the balance between vehicles or separate them for each one, as a single customer can have different accounts that are managed in an integrated way, both from central system and user account.

The procedure is summarized in 3 steps:

It is suitable for private customers and for companies with large vehicles fleets, both pre-payment and post-payment, with the possibility of electronic or manual invoicing.

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.

Tecsidel has obtained the SOA Contractors’ Classification Certificate in Italy for Public Works execution under OS9 modality in IV category, and OS19 modality in VII category. The OS9 modality belongs to the construction of data transmission and telecommunications networks systems. OS19 belongs to the construction of traffic security systems and traffic light signals.

Thanks to this classification certificate issued by SOA Laghi Certification Organization, which is valid for three years, Tecsidel has consolidated itself in the Italian market for construction works execution.

You can check the SOA Certification validity here:

https://servizi.anticorruzione.it/portal/classic/Servizi/RicercaAttestazioni

You can also download the SOA Classification Certificate here:

https://tecsidel.com/images/tecsidel/certificados/Attestazione_SOA.pdf

Just a few weeks more to go and the most important show in the traffic technology industry is taking place in Amsterdam! Intertraffic is the major platform for professionals from around the world to meet and get informed about the latest products and services of the world’s leading companies. Tecsidel with its more than 35 years of experience in development and integration of advances information systems is one of them. Visit our booth 11.415 the first week of April to get in touch with our specialists and find out more about how Tecsidel provides you with highly efficient engineering competence.

Head of the Tendering Team
Toll systems & ITS

Ghizlane El Ouatiq
+34 650830316

Sales Manager
Toll systems & ITS

Michele Ganz
+34 699100007

Brazil Sales Manager
Toll systems & ITS

Vanessa Galvão
+55 11 99415-8658

Technical Engineer
Toll systems & ITS

Miguel Alejandro González
+34 686848657

International Sales Engineer
Toll systems & ITS

Felipe Duque
+34 638117036

International Sales Engineer
Toll systems & ITS

Bojan Jovicevic
+34 681106426

Tecsidel is proud to announce the appointment of AB Technology Singapore as its partner for turnkey solutions in Indonesia, Vietnam, East Timor, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Tecsidel strategy to become stronger also in Asian Countries with this new agreement, to the highly market and developed economies of  this region.These nations and areas are notable for maintaining exceptionally high growth rates.

Economic growth in Asia is set to bring new opportunities to the businesses, particularly as the region integrates further and international companies expand into this part of the world.

Due to the high traffic volume, the most advance technology is required in these countries. Tecsidel will provide expertise implementing  the Toll system integration at the most high standard levels, as the ones integrated in the other continents.

To facilitate a seamless movement of traffic across all toll roads in India, IHMCL (owned by the National Highway Authority of India - NHAI) has started a nation-wide program of Electronic Toll Collection. This program, based on RFID technology, aims to implement, unify and interoperate the ETC solution for National Highways in India.

Concerning the NHAI guidelines and compliances, Tecsidel has proposed an independent solution for the ETC only lanes, namely:

• ETC only lanes that include vehicle detection through recognition of the RFID tag status, which guides the vehicle through specific ETC lane exits. If the tag is not recognized or detected by the system, the vehicle is guided lane where the vehicle fee has to be paid in cash.

• Integration with the Central Clearing House (CCH) includes the sharing of ETC transactions from the Tecsidel system to Central Clearing House (CCH) and vice versa.

Tecsidel Toll System & ITS recently participated in TrafficInfra Tech Expo at NSIC Exhibition Complex, New Delhi, India from 7th January 2015 to 9th January 2015. Almost 20 countries including Germany, Australia, Italy, UK, US, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Singapore, Taiwan, Austria, Spain, China, Qatar and UAE participated in the Event / Expo.

This year Tecsidel Toll System & ITS participated at this event with a very unique design of our Stall D-10 in Hall B. with the presence of: Mr. Akash Sinha, Mr. Felipe Duque, Mr. Nishant Sah, Mr. Varun Agarwal, Mr. Puneet Walia, Mr. Puneet Rustagi and Mr. Carles Sans Casañas.

During the 3 days event / expo, Tecsidel was introduced to various visitors specially the new road & highway contractors and concessioners who wanted to learn about Tecsidel Toll, ETC & ITS Solutions.

Major visitors focused on ETC solution that Tecsidel has recently catered to IHMCL and some other concessioners. For which a detailed explanation was provided to the visitors stating the art of hardware and software integration that makes Tecsidel solution more competitive than the solution provided by other system integrators.

The electronic magazines that covered the event posted an article focusing on the Tecsidel Solution, and it can be found on the page 69 to 70 in the e-Version of Traffic Infratech Magazine

The Invepar Group VIA 040 Concessionary, located in the province of Minas Gerais, manages the  administration, construction and operation of Ruta BR-040 (one of the longest highways in Brazil with a 936.8 km route). This consortium has recently entrusted to Tecsidel the supply of Hardware, Software, Installation and Integration services of the 119 lanes divided into 11 plazas, all managed by a Central Back Office.

Its second concessionary, Rio Teresópolis (CRT), administrator of BR-116 (142.5km in length and located in the province of Rio de Janeiro), has requested from Tecsidel the installation of all equipment necessary for a 18 lane project, divided into 3 plazas and administered by a Central Office.

The Rodovia do Aço Concessionary, from Acciona Infra-estructuras Group, responsible for the 200.4km highway between routes BR-393/RJ and BR-116 (Via Dutra) has ordered from Tecsidel the installation of 32 lanes divided into 2 plazas, administered by a Central Office.

In all of these projects, the lanes will be equipped with optical + laser non-intrusive vehicle classification. See the technical article Wheel and axle detection techniques.