Faster fee collection, improved checking – Siemens installs video systems on Mount Großglockner road network

/noticias.info/ Erlangen, May 4, 2005 The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) is supplying and installing 25 new video systems for the road network of Großglockner Hochalpenstraßen AG (GROHAG) in the Austrian Alps. The video systems will be used to accelerate fee collection at the fee stations and also for checking purposes. The project on the Mount Großglockner roads and on the Gerlos Pass is scheduled for completion in June 2005. The Nockalm roadway will follow by June 2006. Großglockner Hochalpenstraßen AG operates around 93 kilometers of roads in and around the “Hohe Tauern” - the Austrian national park which is just under 1800 square kilometers in size - at the borders between the provinces of Tyrol, Carynthia and Salzburg. The roads include several which cross the Alps, namely Großglockner Hochalpenstraße, opened in 1935, Gerlos-Alpenstraße and Nockalmstraße. For the fee stations at Heiligenblut, Ferleiten and Gerlospass, Siemens is supplying video systems to accelerate and support fee collection. In future, a total of eight video fee collection lanes will be available to drivers with day tickets and tickets for longer periods of time. The holders of tickets tied to particular car license numbers will be identified by a video camera with the help of an automatic license-plate recognition system which is integrated in the video system. For checking purposes, all 17 fee collection lanes will be equipped with an enforcement system, which stores a picture of each vehicle that has paid the fee on an image server of GROHAG for later checking.