Video toll collection is a cutting-edge system streamlining toll payments using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). Cameras installed on the infrastructure detect vehicles as they pass, facilitating real-time vehicle identification, classification, and payment processing and removing the need for physical tags. Users register through a mobile application.
Working on behalf of the concession holder AWSA, Egis and its Tollsys subsidiary launched video toll collection in mid-January 2025 on the A2 motorway connecting Warsaw with Berlin. The new system has already successfully processed more than one hundred thousand transactions.
The project was delivered in under 12 months and will:
1. Enhance user experience: By digitizing transactions, the need for handling cash or bank cards is eliminated. The Egis solution is based upon leading edge technology and enables quick and efficient toll payments without the need to handle cards or cash.
2. Reduce emissions: Smoother traffic flow, facilitated by this system, helps reduce CO2 emissions and local pollutants by eliminating traffic stops. By increasing lane performance, video-tolling can help accommodate year-to-year increases in traffic. It also reduces the longer-term need for civil-works extensions to the toll plaza and thus further artificialisation of the soil.
3. Optimise toll collection: Video toll collection minimises fraud risks and can handle a higher volume of vehicles, including occasional users, while cutting down on maintenance and operating costs. Compared to manual toll collection, video-tolling can make an important difference in terms of quality of service. Benefits include:
- Facilitating toll acceptance
- Providing user choice: at each toll lane users can choose between payment in cash, bank or fleet cards, and video-tolling
- Through ease-of-use, attracting regular commuters and frequent users
- Saving drivers time, with the option of a dedicated video tolling lane which improve the speed and efficiency of traffic flow.
From the road-operator viewpoint, video-tolling can reduce the workload involved in toll operations. With legacy toll systems, some transactions must be settled manually, and this process can take between 15 and 30 seconds depending on the payment means. Egis’s video-tolling solution reduces this processing time and therefore the overall workload. In terms of road operator staff planning, the shift-roster for employees can also be optimized, with efficiencies and staff costs savings for the operator.