10.05.15
The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission has awarded a multi-year design-build-maintain contract for a complete overhaul of the agency’s toll collection system infrastructure.
The modernization project will touch virtually every aspect of the agency’s toll system: manual cash collections, conventional toll-lane E-ZPass transactions, highway-speed open-road tolling and future all-electronic tolling at the Scudder Falls Replacement Bridge.
“This project will swap out the Commission’s rapidly aging toll-collection infrastructure and replace it with the latest equipment and technology in the industry,” said Joseph Resta, the DRJTBC’s executive director.
The project was awarded to TransCore, a national toll integrator. The Commission approved the $24.9 million contract at its Sept. 28 meeting.
Resta said the project will be broken into two phases.
The first phase will involve the design, development, integration, installation and testing of a collection system to handle cash and electronic transactions at the Commission’s seven toll bridges. This work also will extend to the establishment of an all-electronic tolling system at a future eighth toll bridge - the Scudder Falls Replacement Bridge, the first span of which is expected to become operational in 2019.
The second phase will involve the maintenance of all the newly installed equipment and operating systems for five years with two additional three-year options.
A significant aspect of the project will involve the installations of next-generation electronic toll tag readers, enabling the Commission to read toll transponder readers from non-E-ZPass toll agencies once national interoperability is decided and implemented.
The Commission’s current toll system was installed in 2002 and consists largely of equipment designed in the 1990s; the system is quickly approaching the end of its useful life. Additionally, some Northeast toll agencies have already begun shifting to next-generation toll collection technology; others are on the cusp of upgrading.
The first phase of modernization activities is expected to be completed in 16 months, with equipment installation and toll lane conversion work beginning in summer 2016 and ending before winter.
The modernization project will touch virtually every aspect of the agency’s toll system: manual cash collections, conventional toll-lane E-ZPass transactions, highway-speed open-road tolling and future all-electronic tolling at the Scudder Falls Replacement Bridge.
“This project will swap out the Commission’s rapidly aging toll-collection infrastructure and replace it with the latest equipment and technology in the industry,” said Joseph Resta, the DRJTBC’s executive director.
The project was awarded to TransCore, a national toll integrator. The Commission approved the $24.9 million contract at its Sept. 28 meeting.
Resta said the project will be broken into two phases.
The first phase will involve the design, development, integration, installation and testing of a collection system to handle cash and electronic transactions at the Commission’s seven toll bridges. This work also will extend to the establishment of an all-electronic tolling system at a future eighth toll bridge - the Scudder Falls Replacement Bridge, the first span of which is expected to become operational in 2019.
The second phase will involve the maintenance of all the newly installed equipment and operating systems for five years with two additional three-year options.
A significant aspect of the project will involve the installations of next-generation electronic toll tag readers, enabling the Commission to read toll transponder readers from non-E-ZPass toll agencies once national interoperability is decided and implemented.
The Commission’s current toll system was installed in 2002 and consists largely of equipment designed in the 1990s; the system is quickly approaching the end of its useful life. Additionally, some Northeast toll agencies have already begun shifting to next-generation toll collection technology; others are on the cusp of upgrading.
The first phase of modernization activities is expected to be completed in 16 months, with equipment installation and toll lane conversion work beginning in summer 2016 and ending before winter.