STERLING, Virginia, October 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Kapsch TrafficCom U.S. Corp. completed the performance evaluation of its 5.9 GHz DSRC toll trial station in Douglas County, Colorado (near Denver) with extraordinary success. The U.S. subsidiary of one of the leading suppliers of electronic toll collection systems (ETC) has been operating a test facility on one of the mainline barrier plazas on the E-470 highway near Denver, Colorado. The Kapsch solution under evaluation is an electronic toll collection system for Open Road Tolling (Multi-Lane Free-Flow). This system was implemented on three southbound lanes alongside an existing toll collection system on the E-470. A nationally known, independent research and development laboratory evaluated the system and determined that the system collected 100 percent of more than 10,500 DSRC samples.

"The successful performance evaluation confirms our conviction that 5.9 GHz technology will revolutionize the toll landscape in the U.S.A. due its numerous benefits over legacy DSRC technologies currently in use. Providing world-class tolling solutions coupled with this 5.9 GHz technology will provide a compelling value proposition to U.S. toll road operators. The U.S. is by far the largest single tolling market in the world with significant potential for growth. We decided to install one of the first 5.9 GHz DSRC test stations in the U.S., using a test site (E-470) which has generally been made available to qualified vendors to demonstrate their capability," explained Erwin Toplak, President, Kapsch TrafficCom U.S. Corp. "Even though E-470 would neither verify nor support the outcome of any of these trials to retain impartiality and non-vendor preference, we were fortunate to be able to utilize the facilities of E-470 for these tests," Mr. Toplak stated.

The test installation from Kapsch TrafficCom comprised a 5.9 GHz DSRC toll system, equipment for automatic detection and classification of vehicles as well as an Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) video system. To evaluate the performance of the Kapsch 5.9 GHz DSRC toll tag/reader system, a test fleet of 27 vehicles passed the toll station more than 10,500 times. The test vehicles were equipped with Kapsch 5.9 GHz DSRC toll tags and transactions recorded were compared to a count of passages through the toll plaza as recorded by a global positioning system (GPS) data logger. An independent lab performed objective examinations, which concluded that the system recorded 100 percent of more than 10,500 collected samples.

Kapsch TrafficCom is active in the U.S. through its subsidiaries in Sterling, VA and Carlsbad, CA where it operates one of its four engineering competence centers. Kapsch TrafficCom is an international supplier of innovative road traffic telematics solutions. Its principle business is the development and supply of electronic toll collection (ETC) systems, in particular for multi-lane free-flow (MLFF) traffic, and the technical and commercial operation of such systems. Kapsch TrafficCom also supplies traffic management systems, with a focus on road safety and traffic control, and electronic access systems and parking management. With more than 200 reference projects in over 30 countries in Europe, Australia, Latin America, in the Middle-East, in the Asian/Pacific region and in South Africa with almost 13 million on-board units (OBUs) and over 11,000 equipped lanes, Kapsch TrafficCom has positioned itself among the leading suppliers of ETC systems worldwide. Kapsch TrafficCom is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and has subsidiaries and representative offices in 20 countries.

    For more information:
    Bob Frank
    Director, Business Development
    Kapsch TrafficCom US Corp.
    21515 Ridgetop Circle, Suite 290
    Sterling, VA 20166
    Tel.: +1-202-256-6186
    E-Mail: bob.frank@kapsch.net
    http://www.kapschtraffic.com
    http://www.kapsch.net

    Brigitte Herdlicka
    Public Relations & Sponsoring
    Kapsch Group
    Wagenseilgasse 1
    1120 Vienna, Austria
    Tel.: +43(0)50-811-1705
    E-Mail: brigitte.herdlicka@kapsch.net

SOURCE Kapsch TrafficCom