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Dollar Thrifty are now offering the Rent A Toll video toll service on their rental cars in the Denver metro area. Rent A Toll of Plano Texas have been offering a similar service on Dollar and Thrifty rental cars on tollroads in Dallas (NTTA) since Sept 2006 and in Houston since Jan 2007. Scott Anderson, an operations exec at Dollar Thrifty: "Pass24 is a great time-saving option for our customers, We have already celebrated successful launches in Dallas and Houston, and we are pleased to expand the convenience of Pass24 to our customers traveling the 65 miles of toll roads in the Denver area. Dave Kristick, operations director at E-470 Public cheap car rentals orlando fl Highway Authority (E470PHA) says video tolling for rental cars improves the service the tollroad provides, and describes the innovation as exciting. Video tolling allows motorists the right to travel in electronic toll lanes, normally transponder-only lanes, without having a transponder. In Denver Rent A Toll maintain cheap car rentals orlando fl a file of license plate numbers of eligible Dollar Thrifty vehicles with the E-470 Public Highway Authority (E470PHA). When a renter drives one of the vehicles through the EXpressToll lanes of E-470, or similar lanes on the Northwest parkway or the I-25 toll lanes - all part of the E470PHA toll system - the enforcement cameras catch an image of the license plate. Automatic optical character recognition cheap car rentals orlando fl algorithms - or as a fallback, staff at a display - get the license plate number. As with cases where a transponder cheap car rentals orlando fl wasn t read the customer has their account debited cheap car rentals orlando fl in a video toll, as opposed cheap car rentals orlando fl to receiving a violation notice. In this case Rent A Toll gets billed for the toll. They make their money charging rental car customers $8.95 per day for each day of the car rental. Dollar Thrifty customers cheap car rentals orlando fl are offered the Rent A Toll service which is branded Pass24 cheap car rentals orlando fl when they sign up for the car. Other video toll services such as PlatePass and Highway Toll Administration working with Hertz, Budget and Enterprise car renters have different payment methods. One of the video tollers in the northeast is under scrutiny for allegedly levying violation payments against rental car customers even though motorists have paid them to handle the tolls.
In E-ZPass territory a few tollers have gates so they don t have cameras so they can t do video tolls - MTA Tribrough Bridges and Tunnels is the most significant, but there is also NYSBA and several others. So E-ZPass members must insist on a transponder for electronic tolls. But the majority of US toll facilities cheap car rentals orlando fl are ungated cheap car rentals orlando fl and have enforcement cameras which can be turned to video tolling. Elsewhere
Video tolling is in use for the general public on a large scale in London an Stockholm where it is the sole basis for checking payment on their central area tolls, on 407ETR in Toronto where 20 to 30% of transactions have been video toll since the facility opened in 2000, in Australia where Melbourne CityLink and several Sydney toll facilities check passes by camera, on the Trans Israel Highway which has a 407ETR type toll system and in Santiago Chile. cheap car rentals orlando fl In the US Texas DOT s turnpike cheap car rentals orlando fl division cheap car rentals orlando fl is doing video tolling on SH121 and Loop 49 in Tyler and Florida s Turnpike which does the toll collection for Tampa is doing it on the reversible express lanes. NTTA introduced video tolling cheap car rentals orlando fl as an emergency measure at Plaza 1 on the Dallas North Tollway earlier cheap car rentals orlando fl this year because of backups created by construction work. It has been so successful there is a move to extend it throughout the Dallas tollroads by phasing out cash collection. TOLLROADSnews 2007-08-14
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