New toll collection regulations announced by the Centre allow private car owners equipped with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to travel up to 20 km per day for free on a few highways and motorways. This strategy has not yet been put into action.
Tuesday marked a revision to the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Amendment Rules, 2024, are the new regulations that will impose costs for any distance over 20 km.
Under the Global Navigation Satellite System-based user fee collection system, a driver, owner, or person in charge of a mechanical vehicle other than a national permit vehicle that uses the same section of the national highway, permanent bridge, bypass, or tunnel, as the case may be, shall be assessed a zero-user fee up to 20 kilometers of a journey in each direction in a day," the notification stated.
A pilot study on the GNSS-based toll collecting system was completed on the Bengaluru-Mysore part of NH-275 in Karnataka and the Panipat-Hisar section of NH-709 in Haryana, according to a statement made by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday.
He stated in a written response to the Rajya Sabha that the GNSS-based system would first be implemented as an extra service alongside Fastag on a limited number of national highways on a pilot basis. The National Highway Authority of India runs the electronic toll collecting system Fastag, which accepts payments via Radio Frequency Identification technology.
How does toll collection based on GNSS operate?
When using GNSS-based tolling, fees will be assessed according to the distance traveled using a pay-per-use model. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the ministry of transportation stated on Wednesday that this system would initially be implemented in a dedicated lane on fee plazas for cars equipped with GNSS systems.
A network of satellites is used by GNSS to pinpoint exact positions on Earth. Satellites are employed in the toll collection process to track a vehicle's movement and compute tolls based on distance. By removing the need for customers to wait in line at toll plazas, this action is anticipated to improve the efficiency of tolling operations.
There will be advanced readers for vehicle identification in the highway lanes reserved for GNSS-equipped vehicles.
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