Free-flow roads
VINCI Highways is an important player in free-flow toll system technologies and services, particularly in the United States and Ireland.
— Free-flow systems contribute to smoother traffic flows while also reducing carbon emissions by eliminating stops at toll barriers. They are particularly suited to roads with heavy traffic in urban and peri-urban areas. With the support of its specialised subsidiary TollPlus (30% owned), VINCI Highways has developed comprehensive expertise in this field. In the United States, since 1995 it has managed one of the world’s first motorways equipped with free-flow facilities (91 Express Lanes between Anaheim and Corona, in California) and has recently installed a back-office system for a network of motorways and expressways in Texas, under three contracts awarded by the state’s public motorway operation agencies. The solution covers management of toll services on the roads, deployment and operation of back-office functions, data collection and toll collection for the state authorities, as well as user relations. The system is also being used to process parking transactions at the international Dallas-Fort Worth and Dallas Love Field airports.
M50 MOTORWAY IN DUBLIN
VINCI Highways, working with its partner Abtran under the joint venture Turas Mobility Services, has deployed a similar global solution on the Dublin ring road (M50) in Ireland. The next-generation back-office is combined with a communication platform comprising a call centre and numerous digital interfaces to optimise management of free-flow transactions and customer services. In liaison with the state agency Transport Infrastructure Ireland, VINCI Highways and Abtran also intend to develop mobility-as-a-service initiatives designed to simplify the driver experience while responding to the urban challenges of a fast-growing capital city.
It was important for us not to have any incidents when operations were launched, and that’s what the team achieved. This is the result of months of planning, very hard work, and tremendous effort to make sure we were ready to go.
JAMES HOFMANN,
Executive Director and CEO of the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA), Texas,
10 MILLION
free-flow transactions managed on behalf of the North Texas Tollway Authority, just 72 hours after the new back-office began operations.