Polish Research on the Subject of Electronic Toll Collection

Motor Transport Institute has developed functional structure of the National Automatic Toll Collection System (NATCS). It consists of the following elements: four intelligent on-board units (OBU's), two control gates and laboratory model of National Automatic Toll Collection Centre (NATCC). OBU automatically calculates the amount of charge due, taking into account the vehicle category (admissible weight, number of axles), the emissions class and road distance. OBU is equipped with GPS, GSM and DSRC module, so it is interoperable with other electronic toll systems in the EU member states and meets requirements of directive 2004/52/EC and EC decision of 6 October 2009. The NATCS has recognized not only OBU Tripon - EU but also OBU from Toll Collect (Germany) and Passango from France which proved interoperability in the EU. The efficacy of automatic detection of number plates was 99.9%.