This was seen at Hosakote Toll Plaza. Huge number of vehicles lined up for almost 200mts. The FastTag was introduced mainly to eliminate manual operations and replace with automated swiping of RFID tags. The manual process was too much cumbersome especially toll operators owed back change. The weird toll prices ending up with number 9, ended up in returning chocolates in place of currency. The FastTag was ideal solution to stop all the mess and speed up vehicle movement along Toll Plaza.
In few toll plazas, FasTag has not matched to its predicted speed. At some toll plazas, the tag reader is darn lousy! The speed gain due to free highway goes in vain as you reach toll plaza. It takes up to 20mins here due to malfunctioning of devices. Hope NHAI pays more attention here and works to improve in this area.
They need to fix that problem!! Our similar system is pretty reliable but when it goes out they return to manual and the traffic backs up fast.
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