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Open Road Tolling (ORT), the latest advancement in Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), is helping to dramatically decrease vehicle queuing at toll plazas, speed throughput, and significantly improve the quality of life for commuters and communities. Open road tolling (ORT), first deployed in the United States by TransCore in Oklahoma, allows part electronic toll collection transactions to occur under normal highway driving conditions. Open road tolling eliminates plaza barriers and creates a new toll road design that mitigates congestion.
TransCore designed and implemented an open road tolling (ORT) solution in Tampa for the world’s first reversible ORT bridge — a solution that earned TransCore the 2007 TeamFL Award for the Most Innovative Transportation Project of the Year. Our award-winning tolling solution overcomes the challenges associated with tracking vehicle behavior in a high-speed, barrier-free, multi-lane open road tolling environment—challenges such as weaving, lane straddling, and poaching. What makes this toll solution unique is the reversibility feature of the system to handle bi-directional traffic with a single gantry structure. TransCore’s toll road design interprets all types of vehicle behavior—including non-automatic vehicle identification (AVI) transactions and excessive speeds up to 100 mph.
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