Eight of the nine highway operators in France - accounting for 90
% of the country's concession highway network (7,000 Km) use systems
designed by GEA, which already supplies 60 % of the French market.
This leadership gives GEA a unique opportunity to play a major role
in the renovation, extension and upgrading of existing systems, and
to lead the process of toll systems standardization for the interconnection
of the motorway networks.
Abroad, GEA installed
several remote payment systems in Sweden, Denmark, Brazil and
in Asia.
In particular, GEA developed and installed remote payment systems
for all categories of vehicle (cars and lorries) for the Storebaelt
Bridge in Denmark and the Anhanguera- Bandeirantes motorway
in Brazil.
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AN EXPANDING BUSINESS: AUTOMATED TOLL PLAZAS
G.E.A. offers a comprehensive range of equipment which allows its clients to automate either partially or
entirely their revenue collect ion. With more than 100 fully automated toll plazas in service in France on the A20,
A29, A66, A72, A83, A87 and A89 motorways, G.E.A. is at the forefront of technology in this field.
Important international clients in Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Morocco and
Tunisia have also chosen G.E.A. for all or part of their automated toll systems.
- Automatic toll lanes accepting all means of payment (Multi-Payment Machines)
- Automatic vehicle classification systems
- Audio and video systems providing real-time remote assistance to patrons (data and digital image transmission over high-speed networks)
- Integration of contactless smart card payment systems
- Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems compliant with the European standard CEN TC 278:
- Within the scope of the TIS (Télépéage Inter-Sociétés) tolling scheme for the French motorway operators,
G.E.A. has :
- Supplied and implemented more than 700 ETC roadside beacons
- Delivered a high-speed ETC system, with automatic detection of incidents through video image analysis
- Provided the TIS software integration for all of the 9 French motorway operators
- Internationally, G.E.A. has installed several ETC systems in Sweden, Denmark, Brazil, Croatia, Spain, and in
Asia.
- Within the scope of its exclusive co-operation agreement with the Thales Group, G.E.A. has delivered
1,000,000 On-Board Units abroad since the initiative began.
- In partnership with Thales, G.E.A. has developed and produced DSRC hyper-frequency antennas (more than 1, 000
antennas ordered).
- The Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) ETC system represents another long-term line of growth.
G.E.A. is particularly well positioned to address this new market because of its renowned expertise.
Thanks to its expertise in automatic classification systems, G.E.A. has already commissioned multi-class ETC
systems (for passenger vehicles and HGVs) in Denmark, (Storebælt bridge), in Sweden (Øresund bridge)
and also in Brazil (Anhangüera-Bandeirantes motorway).
G.E.A. has been chosen by most of the French motorway companies for the software integration of the
new Heavy Goods Vehicles TIS (Interoperable French-wide ETC System).
G.E.A. tags were selected by the major tag issuers for heavy trucks (AXXEX, DKV, EUROTOLL).
OPERATIONAL STRUCTURE AND HUMAN RESSOURCES
On 30 September 2007 GEA staff totalled 189 (197 the previous year) distributed as follows:
| - Engineering and executive : |
72 |
| - Administrative : |
11 |
| - Production : |
106 |
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189 |
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