The challenge of road tolling and traffic information services

Modern societies face numerous challenges in road transportation. Traffic demand continuously increases. Road network extension is limited and expensive. Existing infrastructure has to be used more effective. Road tolling should support traffic information acquisition and traffic control. Both goals can be met by automatic systems using identical or similar modern information and communication technology. Institutions working on the requirements and design of such systems should keep this in mind in order to make such potential synergies productive. This paper gives an overview of main traffic management and tolling requirements, currently available technologies to implement this and existing solutions. A proposal for a real integrated traffic management and tolling system is shown. For the covering abstract see ITRD E140665.