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Kamal Nath discusses investments, New Toll Technolgy and Intelligent Transport System in Japan
The Minister for Road Transport and Highways , Kamal Nath has invited the investors, contractors and concessionaries from Japan to invest in the Indian Highways Infrastructure program, the largest PPP road program in the world. Talking to the investors at Tokyo today, Shri Nath informed that 122 projects of a Road length of about 11,000 km worth USD 20 billion are to be awarded by June 2010. One of the key opportunity areas discussed was installation of user friendly Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in India. Japanese cooperation was also sought to explore the feasibility of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link. He said, that the total investment in the NHDP is estimated at USD 70 billion of which almost USD 40 billion investment is anticipated from the private sector. Private participation will be the key for the programme as almost 60% of the projects will be bid out on BOT basis. In addition, 25% of the projects will be on Annuity basis and remaining will be under EPC.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of Road
LOK SABHA (15:56 IST )
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
This information was provided by Shri Kamal Nath Minister of Road Transport and Highways in Lok Sabha today. Electronic Tolling would
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reduce the delay at the toll plaza due to reduced transaction time, thereby improving the operational efficiency of the National Highways. Will also make the transactions more transparent, fair and accountable by automatic classification of vehicles and applying the approved rates of tolling. The costs associated with delays and congestion would also reduce.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will conduct three pilot studies for identifying the best technology for electronic toll collection. These pilot studies are likely to be started during the year 2010 and will be completed in the year 2010-11. Three locations have been identified for pilot project for technology options. These are PanipatJalandhar section of NH-1 in the States of Haryana and Punjab, Gurgaon-Jaipur section of NH-8 in the States of Haryana and Rajasthan and Surat-Dahisar section of NH-8 in the States of Gujarat and Maharashtra. All the three locations are 4 to 6 lane widening projects on BOT basis.
LATEST NEWSLLAA
3 Jul, 2010, The government will introduce an electronic toll collection (ETC) system by 2012 to increase user convenience by saving on fuel and reducing commuting time. A committee on electronic toll collection headed by UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani, which is developing the equipment, has recommended using Radio Frequency Identification technologyfor the system, road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath told reporters. {Radio frequency transmits the identity (in the form of a unique serial number) of an object or person wirelessly, using radio waves. Rechargeable sticker tags with unique IDs can be fixed on the windshield, which will be detected as soon as a vehicle passes a toll plaza.} Kamal Nath said It would be implemented in the next 18-20 months and with the new systems the government would be able to check revenue leakages in toll collection. The revenue leakages account for about 15% of the collection, which comes up to Rs 300 crore, said Mr. Nath. The committee s report has been accepted by the government, Nath said. This system, used in Georgia and Puerto Rico, will allow people to travel all over the country using toll roads without having to stop at toll booths. When asked about the possible drawbacks of this system, Professor Pankaj Jalote, a member of the committee, said that there is a possibility of drivers going past the booths, or not having enough money on their tags. This can only be handled by the framing of policies. The government is looking into this, he said. Mr Nath said the government was in talks with the Society of Indian Automobiles Manufactures (SIAM ) to have inbuilt chips in new vehicles. As per the current SIAM data over 1.2 crore vehicles were produced in the country on March 31, 2010. Based on this estimate, the tags for ETC would cost about Rs 120 crore. The minister said this will help the government to toll 30,000 km of National Highways in the next 5 years.
RFID
India has about 71,000 km of national highways, but toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government plans to increase this to at least 30,000 km in the next five years. RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, is likely to be in place by May 2012. RFID will ensure that a person can travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari without stopping anywhere. The revenue leakages at present is at least 15 percent of the toll collection, which comes to about Rs.300 crore,' said Road and Transport Minister Kamal Nath. Government had constituted a committee headed by former Infosys chief executive and Unique Identification Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani for this purpose. The RFID tag, will be stuck on the windscreen and cost about Rs.100, while the toll booth will have a tag reader, which is expected to cost about Rs.2 lakh. A vehicle owner can 'recharge' the account for the vehicle (the account number will be the RFID tag number), and when the vehicle passes through the lane of any toll plaza across the country, the appropriate toll will be debited from the account. Talking about the multiple ulity of the system, Nilekani said it will also act as a platform for vehicle identification and prove effective in tracking stolen vehicles.
Currently the technology is used in USA, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Dubai. RFID tecchnology consists of two parts: a tag that contains an identification number and a reader who works as a scanner that triggers the tag to broadcast its identification number. This number usually acts as an input to further data processing. RFID is designed to enable readers to capture data on tags and transmit it to computer system without needing a person to be involved.
RFID Applications in India
RFID in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Ranbaxy), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, India s largest pharmaceutical company, has chosen Acsis to implement a radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking system to meet Wal-Mart s RFID mandate for its Class 2 pharmaceutical suppliers. Animal Tracking The Kopordem farm at Valpoi in Sattari Taluk in North Goa has become the first farm in India to use RFID microchips that can be injected into the animal's body.
T.R. Baalu launched a pilot project for radio frequency identification (RFID)-based vehicle tracking project on the Delhi-Jaipur highway of India on July 21 2005. Under the project, 68
buses of Rajasthan state road transport corporation (RSRTC) plying on the highway have been fitted with RFID tags and readers have been placed to track the vehicle movement along the highway, whereby their movement is being tracked, monitored and managed.
ETC
ETC systems take advantage of vehicle-to-roadside communication technologies (traditionally via microwave or infrared communications, more recently via GPS technology) to perform an electronic monetary transaction between a vehicle passing through a toll station and the toll agency. A study in 2005 revealed that ETC systems reduce the harmful emissions by 16% to 63% at toll plazas and also increase the toll lane capacity. Research says that the revenue leakage at present is at least 15% of the toll collection, which comes to about Rs 300 crore. This system will replace the manual toll collection system and allow transactions even when the vehicles are traveling in speed, thus enabling seamless travel by road users along the national highways. The e-toll mechanism will enhance user convenience leading to savings on fuel, reduce repeated stops for vehicles, reduce traffic congestion and time to commute. e-toll system would process 2.5 times more vehicles on an average as compared to the lanes where customers pay in cash. For this purpose, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has identified three locations
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Panipat-Jalandhar section of NH-1, Gurgaon-Jaipur section of NH-8 and Surat-Dahisar section of NH-8 for the pilot project.
The aim is to have three different technologies such as 1. 5.8 GHz Microwave (Passive), 2. 5.8 GHz Microwave (Active) and 3. communication air-interface long and medium range-infrared (CALM-IR) in three different sample toll systems. For this purpose, the government has constituted a committee led by Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) chairman, Nandan Nilekani. ( Former INFOSYS chief ) According to the committee, the challenge lies in deploying a cost effective, user friendly technology that also confirms to international standards. As per the statistics, India has about 71,000 km of national highways and toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government is in talks with possible technology partners, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), UIDAI to bring about an amalgamation of expertise and technology.
"Discussion is still on regarding the selection of a suitable technology and a technology partner. All depends on the requirements of the governmentwhether it wants to specifically have a system that supports only electronic toll collection or have a system that serves multiple purposes such a traffic control, vehicle tracking, etc," says Vishnu Mathur, director general, SIAM. NHAI plans to set up an ETC plaza every 65 km on Indias highways. This means that the Golden Quadrilateralthe north-south-east-west corridor, and the remaining four phases of the National Highway Development Program (NHDP) present an opportunity for business worth Rs 2,000 crore over five to ten years. Henceforth, the parameter of interoperability across the toll plazas in the country on a uniform standard becomes important. If NHAI chooses infrared technology, it will have a single vendor option, Efkon. But, Microwave technology has a broad vendor base with at least ten major independent players in the market.
TECHNOLOGY
A comparative study on both the technologies would give us a clear picture and assist us to choose the best technology amongst the two options. Infrared technology is based on light signals; microwave is based on radio signals. Moreover, infrared tags are one-and-a-half times more expensive than the microwave variety. The infrared tags used by the DND Flyway cost about Rs 2,500 each whereas the Microwave tags are expected to cost Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500. But, infrared does not have the infrastructure requirement that microwave has. Infrared is a light based technology and any obstruction such as fog, rain, trees, or even window films can make the detection difficult. Apart from the use of RFID tags, the committee has also suggested a prepaid system for toll collection. Following a similar mechanism of prepaid phones, the vehicle owner can recharge the account of the vehicle and the toll amount will get deducted from his account. Most importantly, to manage financial transactions, a central toll clearing house (CTCH) has been proposed wherein a suitable software will run at all toll gates. It will be connected to the central house through WAN. The tag holders will be able to ask the account details through web, email and mobile phones.
HOW SYSTEM WILL WORK
Typically, an ETC has four major components: AVI (automatic vehicle identification), AVC (automatic vehicle classification), transaction processing and violation enforcement. The AVI enables the use of vehicle-to-roadside communications to identify the vehicle. The AVC identifies the class of vehicles through its physical attribute such as the number of axles. The transaction process involves debiting toll from the customers account and addressing queries. Violation enforcement includes cameras that capture the image of license plates.
A Hope-filled Conclusion
With the introduction of the e -toll system, India has about 71,000 km of national highways, but toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government plans t o increase this to at least 30,000 km in the next five years. The government is hopeful that toll collection on national highways would jump five -fold to Rs 10,000 crore in the next four years. The National Highways Authority of India could only collect about Rs 3,500 crore in the last two financial years from 8,500 km of toll highways. Hopefully with an effective system, the leakages will be plugged in and toll collection would become the key instrument for the government to attract private investments
Kamal Nath discusses investments, New Toll Technolgy and Intelligent Transport System in Japan
The Minister for Road Transport and Highways , Kamal Nath has invited the investors, contractors and concessionaries from Japan to invest in the Indian Highways Infrastructure program, the largest PPP road program in the world. Talking to the investors at Tokyo today, Shri Nath informed that 122 projects of a Road length of about 11,000 km worth USD 20 billion are to be awarded by June 2010. One of the key opportunity areas discussed was installation of user friendly Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in India. Japanese cooperation was also sought to explore the feasibility of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link. He said, that the total investment in the NHDP is estimated at USD 70 billion of which almost USD 40 billion investment is anticipated from the private sector. Private participation will be the key for the programme as almost 60% of the projects will be bid out on BOT basis. In addition, 25% of the projects will be on Annuity basis and remaining will be under EPC.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of Road
LOK SABHA (15:56 IST )
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
This information was provided by Shri Kamal Nath Minister of Road Transport and Highways in Lok Sabha today. Electronic Tolling would
y y y y
reduce the delay at the toll plaza due to reduced transaction time, thereby improving the operational efficiency of the National Highways. Will also make the transactions more transparent, fair and accountable by automatic classification of vehicles and applying the approved rates of tolling. The costs associated with delays and congestion would also reduce.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will conduct three pilot studies for identifying the best technology for electronic toll collection. These pilot studies are likely to be started during the year 2010 and will be completed in the year 2010-11. Three locations have been identified for pilot project for technology options. These are PanipatJalandhar section of NH-1 in the States of Haryana and Punjab, Gurgaon-Jaipur section of NH-8 in the States of Haryana and Rajasthan and Surat-Dahisar section of NH-8 in the States of Gujarat and Maharashtra. All the three locations are 4 to 6 lane widening projects on BOT basis.
LATEST NEWSLLAA
3 Jul, 2010, The government will introduce an electronic toll collection (ETC) system by 2012 to increase user convenience by saving on fuel and reducing commuting time. A committee on electronic toll collection headed by UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani, which is developing the equipment, has recommended using Radio Frequency Identification technologyfor the system, road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath told reporters. {Radio frequency transmits the identity (in the form of a unique serial number) of an object or person wirelessly, using radio waves. Rechargeable sticker tags with unique IDs can be fixed on the windshield, which will be detected as soon as a vehicle passes a toll plaza.} Kamal Nath said It would be implemented in the next 18-20 months and with the new systems the government would be able to check revenue leakages in toll collection. The revenue leakages account for about 15% of the collection, which comes up to Rs 300 crore, said Mr. Nath. The committee s report has been accepted by the government, Nath said. This system, used in Georgia and Puerto Rico, will allow people to travel all over the country using toll roads without having to stop at toll booths. When asked about the possible drawbacks of this system, Professor Pankaj Jalote, a member of the committee, said that there is a possibility of drivers going past the booths, or not having enough money on their tags. This can only be handled by the framing of policies. The government is looking into this, he said. Mr Nath said the government was in talks with the Society of Indian Automobiles Manufactures (SIAM ) to have inbuilt chips in new vehicles. As per the current SIAM data over 1.2 crore vehicles were produced in the country on March 31, 2010. Based on this estimate, the tags for ETC would cost about Rs 120 crore. The minister said this will help the government to toll 30,000 km of National Highways in the next 5 years.
RFID
India has about 71,000 km of national highways, but toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government plans to increase this to at least 30,000 km in the next five years. RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, is likely to be in place by May 2012. RFID will ensure that a person can travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari without stopping anywhere. The revenue leakages at present is at least 15 percent of the toll collection, which comes to about Rs.300 crore,' said Road and Transport Minister Kamal Nath. Government had constituted a committee headed by former Infosys chief executive and Unique Identification Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani for this purpose. The RFID tag, will be stuck on the windscreen and cost about Rs.100, while the toll booth will have a tag reader, which is expected to cost about Rs.2 lakh. A vehicle owner can 'recharge' the account for the vehicle (the account number will be the RFID tag number), and when the vehicle passes through the lane of any toll plaza across the country, the appropriate toll will be debited from the account. Talking about the multiple ulity of the system, Nilekani said it will also act as a platform for vehicle identification and prove effective in tracking stolen vehicles.
Currently the technology is used in USA, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Dubai. RFID tecchnology consists of two parts: a tag that contains an identification number and a reader who works as a scanner that triggers the tag to broadcast its identification number. This number usually acts as an input to further data processing. RFID is designed to enable readers to capture data on tags and transmit it to computer system without needing a person to be involved.
RFID Applications in India
RFID in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Ranbaxy), a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, India s largest pharmaceutical company, has chosen Acsis to implement a radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking system to meet Wal-Mart s RFID mandate for its Class 2 pharmaceutical suppliers. Animal Tracking The Kopordem farm at Valpoi in Sattari Taluk in North Goa has become the first farm in India to use RFID microchips that can be injected into the animal's body.
T.R. Baalu launched a pilot project for radio frequency identification (RFID)-based vehicle tracking project on the Delhi-Jaipur highway of India on July 21 2005. Under the project, 68
buses of Rajasthan state road transport corporation (RSRTC) plying on the highway have been fitted with RFID tags and readers have been placed to track the vehicle movement along the highway, whereby their movement is being tracked, monitored and managed.
ETC
ETC systems take advantage of vehicle-to-roadside communication technologies (traditionally via microwave or infrared communications, more recently via GPS technology) to perform an electronic monetary transaction between a vehicle passing through a toll station and the toll agency. A study in 2005 revealed that ETC systems reduce the harmful emissions by 16% to 63% at toll plazas and also increase the toll lane capacity. Research says that the revenue leakage at present is at least 15% of the toll collection, which comes to about Rs 300 crore. This system will replace the manual toll collection system and allow transactions even when the vehicles are traveling in speed, thus enabling seamless travel by road users along the national highways. The e-toll mechanism will enhance user convenience leading to savings on fuel, reduce repeated stops for vehicles, reduce traffic congestion and time to commute. e-toll system would process 2.5 times more vehicles on an average as compared to the lanes where customers pay in cash. For this purpose, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has identified three locations
y y y
Panipat-Jalandhar section of NH-1, Gurgaon-Jaipur section of NH-8 and Surat-Dahisar section of NH-8 for the pilot project.
The aim is to have three different technologies such as 1. 5.8 GHz Microwave (Passive), 2. 5.8 GHz Microwave (Active) and 3. communication air-interface long and medium range-infrared (CALM-IR) in three different sample toll systems. For this purpose, the government has constituted a committee led by Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) chairman, Nandan Nilekani. ( Former INFOSYS chief ) According to the committee, the challenge lies in deploying a cost effective, user friendly technology that also confirms to international standards. As per the statistics, India has about 71,000 km of national highways and toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government is in talks with possible technology partners, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), UIDAI to bring about an amalgamation of expertise and technology.
"Discussion is still on regarding the selection of a suitable technology and a technology partner. All depends on the requirements of the governmentwhether it wants to specifically have a system that supports only electronic toll collection or have a system that serves multiple purposes such a traffic control, vehicle tracking, etc," says Vishnu Mathur, director general, SIAM. NHAI plans to set up an ETC plaza every 65 km on Indias highways. This means that the Golden Quadrilateralthe north-south-east-west corridor, and the remaining four phases of the National Highway Development Program (NHDP) present an opportunity for business worth Rs 2,000 crore over five to ten years. Henceforth, the parameter of interoperability across the toll plazas in the country on a uniform standard becomes important. If NHAI chooses infrared technology, it will have a single vendor option, Efkon. But, Microwave technology has a broad vendor base with at least ten major independent players in the market.
TECHNOLOGY
A comparative study on both the technologies would give us a clear picture and assist us to choose the best technology amongst the two options. Infrared technology is based on light signals; microwave is based on radio signals. Moreover, infrared tags are one-and-a-half times more expensive than the microwave variety. The infrared tags used by the DND Flyway cost about Rs 2,500 each whereas the Microwave tags are expected to cost Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500. But, infrared does not have the infrastructure requirement that microwave has. Infrared is a light based technology and any obstruction such as fog, rain, trees, or even window films can make the detection difficult. Apart from the use of RFID tags, the committee has also suggested a prepaid system for toll collection. Following a similar mechanism of prepaid phones, the vehicle owner can recharge the account of the vehicle and the toll amount will get deducted from his account. Most importantly, to manage financial transactions, a central toll clearing house (CTCH) has been proposed wherein a suitable software will run at all toll gates. It will be connected to the central house through WAN. The tag holders will be able to ask the account details through web, email and mobile phones.
HOW SYSTEM WILL WORK
Typically, an ETC has four major components: AVI (automatic vehicle identification), AVC (automatic vehicle classification), transaction processing and violation enforcement. The AVI enables the use of vehicle-to-roadside communications to identify the vehicle. The AVC identifies the class of vehicles through its physical attribute such as the number of axles. The transaction process involves debiting toll from the customers account and addressing queries. Violation enforcement includes cameras that capture the image of license plates.
A Hope-filled Conclusion
With the introduction of the e -toll system, India has about 71,000 km of national highways, but toll is collected on only 8,500 km. The government plans t o increase this to at least 30,000 km in the next five years. The government is hopeful that toll collection on national highways would jump five -fold to Rs 10,000 crore in the next four years. The National Highways Authority of India could only collect about Rs 3,500 crore in the last two financial years from 8,500 km of toll highways. Hopefully with an effective system, the leakages will be plugged in and toll collection would become the key instrument for the government to attract private investments
