Fitted with a central processing unit, the toll terminals at the users level manage the various lane peripherals (automatic vehicle classification systems, traffic signals, barriers, electronic tolling antennas, etc).
Transaction data and traffic information are collected in real time and stored before being centralised and consolidated through local networks such as Ethernet, FDDI or ATM.
These local plaza computers communicate with a central computer via optical fibre networks.

COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC TOLLING CONTROL SYSTEM:

At the financial level:

• Prevents fraud
• Manages the money flow
(Revenue of more than 6.7 billion in France in 2007)

At the technical level:

• Processes all means of paymment
• Generates traffic statistics
• Automates Toll Collection
• More than 1.3 billion transactions in 2007
(of which more than 300 million in ETC Toll Collection

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