Monday 23 April 2018

Online toll payment: The convenience of paying toll online.

If you are working in a corporate house you must be aware of the RFID (Radio frequency Identification) card that you use every day to get access to your office. An RFID reader recognizes the tag which remains installed within the card. It works using a touch and go system whereby once you place the card on the reader, you are allowed access. RFID tags work well in any place where mass data collection and tagging is involved. Did you know that you can use the same technology to pay highway toll? And the best thing about it is it allows you to pay toll online hassle-free. It is surely a one-stop-solution if you have to pay toll tax on a daily basis while commuting.

FASTag is the newest device from the house of Radio Frequency Identification Technology. The tag remains attached to your vehicle’s windscreen and once you link it to a prepaid account, the tag becomes active. The toll fares are deducted from your rechargeable prepaid account automatically, every time you cross the toll plaza. No, you would not require waiting in front of a toll plaza if you are the proud owner of this technology. You just drive pass it seamlessly.

These are some of the benefits that you will enjoy if you pay toll online.

FASTags saves your time:  A person who needs to pay toll tax on a daily basis is best suited to understand the pains of waiting in the long queues that often form in front of toll plazas.  If everyone, beginning from public transport drivers to owners of personal vehicles starts using FASTags, imagine the amount of time that will be saved on your way to your destination.

Reduces traffic jams in front of toll plazas: All of us are aware of the painful traffic jams that form in front of toll plazas on the freeways. Most of that happens because trucks and heavy-duty vehicles use the highway to ply between different parts of the country. But if none of the vehicles pays highway toll physically and the process becomes completely automated, the traffic jams will also be brought down significantly.

Transparent: It is a transparent method which allows no extortion. This technology will play a major role in regularizing the collection of toll taxes on every part of the country. If FASTags become the only existing system, a no-escape policy will work soundly.
Convenient: Often you don’t have change and the collector refuses to take a note of a higher denomination; cue for a mild altercation in front of the toll counter, more traffic jams and angry drivers honking behind you. All these can be eliminated with a FASTag. 

Currently FASTags are being used in 350 toll plazas across India. Know if your nearest toll plaza has implemented the latest technology and if it has, get your FAStag fast.

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