Singapore will begin installing its electronic road charging network (ERP) via satellite starting in the first part of next year, eliminating the need for physical porches lately on local roads. However, “thinner” porticos will still be built to involve tolls.
The country’s next-generation Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) ERP network was scheduled in the past to begin implementation this year, but has been delayed due to the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on global source chains. Infrastructure is expected to be completed by mid-2023.
According to the Land Transport Authority (LTA), implementation work would begin next year and take 18 months. These would come with the installation of a new on-board unit, which will update existing on-board sets. all cars registered in Singapore, with some exceptions that come with cars that use public roads on the continent or are subject to restrictions on use, such as tractors and structure equipment.
Launched in 1998, the city-state ERP formula uses the culmination of intelligent generation of cards and RFID (radio frequency identification) to collect tolls when vehicles and motorcycles pass through porches, which are regularly found along roads and roads that are congested during peak hours. Smart cards with a stored monetary price, also known as CashCards, are inserted into the onboard sets and the budget is deducted each time the vehicle passes through an operational ERP portico.
The 22-year formula was coming to the end of its operational life and now there were more complex technologies to exploit, LTA said on a Tuesday. The new GNSS-based infrastructure would not only eliminate the need for giant porches, but could also be incorporated into “value-added services,” the industry regulator said, citing traffic data as an example.
He noted that the new on-board sets can also provide more out-of-the-box data on ERP locations and freight rates, such as real-time traffic situations and locations in zones near designated schools and Silver areas, so drivers are alerted. on most used roads through vulnerable users.
According to LTA, its toll pricing design would be the same, with the cable-based congestion pricing framework and the point for further use.
“ERP rates will continue to be reviewed based on traffic speed and congestion levels. ERP loading locations will also obviously be marked, as now, but with increasingly small porches,” he said.
Onboard games would also remain mandatory for Singapore-registered motor cars, the government firm said. Although it is still a one-piece unit fixed on motorcycles, onboard games for other cars would be “a three-part design”. LTA said. These would come with an antenna, a touch screen to be fixed on the windshield and a separate processing unit that can be fixed under the board.
These new integrated sets would interact with existing ERP-compliant systems, adding ERP and parking fees, and existing payment cards, adding FlashPay and EZ-Link NETS cards, as well as credit or debit cards.
Responding to possible considerations about the security and privacy of knowledge, LTA said: “Like all GNSS, GPS and payment systems, ERP [the next generation] will collect users’ knowledge. LTA will use anonymized or aggregated knowledge for traffic control and transport. purposes of the plans.
“Vehicle-specific knowledge will only be used for payment, fees and execution, for example, as opposed to non-payment of ERP fees. Invocations similar to such defaults will be generated largely automatically, as it is today,” the government “To prevent unauthorized access to you and in addition to the use of knowledge, strong security measures and strict safeguards will be implemented, adding sanctions under the Public Service (Government) Act”.
LTA announced in 2016 its goal of implementing the satellite road pricing formula, which estimates that it would charge the Singaporean government S$556 million (US$407. 51 million). The local formula integrator NCS and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Engine System Asia was decided. to expand the new formula after the two suppliers jointly submitted bids for the government tender, exceeding the eligible bid at the time of ST Electronic, which more than doubled to S$1. 2 billion (US$853. 14 million).
Singapore Next Generation ERP Onboard Unit (Source: LTA)
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