Geo-location platform now working within the Netherlands and Belgium
Kapsch TrafficCom has deployed its Geo Location Platform (GLP) for satellite-based tolling within the Netherlands, marking a key step within the enlargement throughout European tolling domains.
The GLP is now working in each the Netherlands and Belgium, the place it’s used to create tolling transactions by way of Kapsch TrafficCom’s personal map-matching, trip-building and tolling contextualisation capabilities.
Justin Hamilton, director location based mostly charging at Kapsch TrafficCom, says: “The enlargement to the Netherlands is a key milestone as a result of it exhibits that our know-how is able to assist new tolling schemes on the degree of accuracy and reliability that authorities and repair suppliers require.
“With the GLP now working in each the Netherlands and Belgium in addition to Bulgaria and an upcoming launch in Lithuania, we’re demonstrating that we are able to ship the intelligence behind satellite tv for pc tolling throughout totally different nationwide schemes, regulatory environments and highway networks.”
The GLP permits satellite tv for pc tolling, highway person charging and location-based enterprise purposes for toll chargers, highway authorities, toll service suppliers, fleet administration suppliers and EETS service suppliers.
It receives location knowledge from GNSS-enabled gadgets, smartphones, related autos or on-board items and the map-matching know-how then identifies highway utilization, creates rated journey studies and supplies cost studies for additional processing and billing.
Within the Netherlands and Belgium, the system is working to create tolling transactions throughout a community of roughly 14,000 kilometres of roads, together with the dense Brussels highway community the place most accuracy is required.
On the coronary heart of the answer is the GLP’s skill to transform uncooked GNSS knowledge into verified charging outcomes. The open, device-agnostic structure of the GLP permits authorities and repair suppliers to work with totally different knowledge sources whereas sustaining constant transaction creation and charging logic.
The most recent rollout additionally strengthens Kapsch TrafficCom’s place within the transition towards extra versatile, policy-driven charging methods. In Belgium and Bulgaria, Kapsch TrafficCom is already supporting CO₂ tolling as a part of its system.
The corporate can be able to assist additional charging varieties for exterior prices as outlined inside the EU directive which incorporates noise and air air pollution.
These capabilities are being developed in response to imminent European necessities for differentiated charging fashions.
The GLP went stay on this expanded operational setup on July 1. With stay operation within the Netherlands, in Belgium and Bulgaria, Kapsch TrafficCom is now demonstrating that satellite tv for pc tolling may be delivered throughout a number of international locations by way of a standard geolocation platform whereas nonetheless reflecting the particular guidelines, tariffs and working necessities of every tolling area.
