India Toll Collection System

During September, 1997, Tolltex was

awarded a contract to provide the first toll
collection system to be installed in India. The
toll road is a bypass near Udaipur City on
National Highway No. 8 connecting Delhi
with Bombay (Mumbai) via Jalpur, Ajmer,
Udaipur, Ahmedabad and Baroda.

The toll portion is from Km 6/000 to 16/920 of this bypass road. There are two toll plazas,
one on the Ajmer side near Km 6/000 and the other on the Ahmedabad side near Km
16/920.
The major components of the system are described below.

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 The system features manual toll collection
for five classes of vehicles including a non-
revenue class for authorized government
vehicles.

The image here shows a group of the toll

terminals and receipt printers.

Tolltex designed and manufactured the stainless steel toll terminal to according to the
requirements of the project. The toll terminal features an embedded controller that
communicates to the control computer via a digital I/O parallel interface.
Vehicles passing through the lane are detected by loops installed in each lane. Axles are
counted by using two-strip Traffic 2000 piezo-electric treadles. The system continues to
count axles and vehicles even if the lane is closed for collection. The main plaza monitor
screen shows vehicle information in real time.

Receipts are printed using a Tolltex thermal paper receipt printer housed in a stainless
steel enclosure and linked to the control computer via RS-422. Toll amounts, plaza name,

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lane number, vehicle class description and other variable text printed on the receipts can
be easily changed by a mouse-controlled configuration utility program on each of the plaza
systems. The utility program is password protected.

Each plaza has a control computer that interfaces with the lane equipment. The control
computer is a rugged, rack mounted 133 Mhz Intel processor with 24 channels of digital
I/O support, 16 channels of RS-232/RS-422 support, and a 1.2 GB hard disk. The operating
system is real-time QNX with Photon for the mouse-controlled user interface. All programs
are written in the "C" programming language. Data is stored for viewing in real time from
the Supervisor display. All programs are controlled by pointing and clicking with a mouse.
The Ajmer plaza is considered the main plaza. Data from the remote plaza is transferred
via a dial-up 33,600 bps modem link. Data is transferred from the remote plaza to the main
plaza for audit reporting. At the main plaza, reports are printed on a Hewlett Packard
laser printer that was modified to support the power requirements found in India.

A unique challenge of this project was that budget constraints did not permit Tolltex staff
to be on-site for the installation. Instead, the system was designed to "plug" together.
Tolltex prepared detailed installation drawings and instructions as well as videotape
showing how the system should be assembled. After building and testing the system, the
videotape was made to show the details of how the system should be assembled. The same
approach was taken for operations. Tolltex prepared detailed operations training material
for collectors as well as for Supervisors and Audit staff. In addition to written training
material, Tolltex prepared videotape for operations training.

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