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1 PORTMANN PROJECT OVERVIEW March 2013
Canada, VancouverPort Mann bridgeFreeflow tolling operation
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Project overview
The Port Mann/Highway 1 Improvement Project includes :
The replacement of the old Port Mann bridge by of a brand new 10-lane bridge, including High Occupancy Vehicles and public transport lanes.
37 kilometres of highway widening from Vancouver to Langley, including 30 kilometres of new High Occupancy Vehicle lanes,
The replacement of nine highway interchanges
This bridge is the widest tolled bridge in the world, with a carriage way of 65 m
Traffic set at 130,000 vehicles/day, on a main transportation corridor
Toll service is branded as TreO towards the public and customers
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Project overview
The civil works construction programme, as well as the free-flow tolling design, build and operations project are being promoted by Transportation Investment Corporation (TI Corp).
TI Corp is a state-owned concession company. TI corp is authorized to collect tolls for a period of 40 years and establishes the maximum toll rates that TI Corp can charge as well as provisions for application of these tolls.
Egis signed in 2012 the freeflow operation contract with TI Corp:
7 years contract (+ 2x2 years optional)
A pure toll collection contract, running a full multi-channel Customer Service
Our consortium TC Flow is comprised of Egis and Sanef
TI corp
Design and Build contractor
Bridge maintenance
contractor
Tolling operations contractor
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Scope of services of the Operator
Our Scope of Service comprises 12 key domains:
Customer Management Customer chanel management Customer service
Tolling services Customer doc and records management Toll transaction review and image reviews Tag Fulfilment Financial management billing and collection
Support Services : QA, perfromance and improvement Business intelligence Technology : mainly participation in in test
training and witness tests at back-office level Communication and marketing support
Relationship management General Service Management
Customer Management
Customer chanel
management
Customer service
Tolling services
Customer doc and regocrds management
Toll transaction reveiw and
image reviews
Tag Fulfilment
Financial management
billing and collection
Support Services
QA and improvement
Business intelligence
Technology
Communication and marketing
support
Relationship management
General Service
Management
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Toll system overview
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Image processing
Video camera are triggered by detectors.
There is an array of laser and magnetic loop detectors that are used for image capture purpose. The detectors are used to detect and classify vehicles and can also provide dimensions and speed measurement.
Dedicated video servers are used :
• To perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for license plate and store image in a digital format
• To perform recognition of each character of the license plate and convert it to a text sting. This is a key software functions for license plate recognition. A confidence level is automatically calculated by the application.
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Back-office architecture
Back-office physical architecture
Back-office external interfaces
Back-office architecture
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« TReO » tag used ion the bridge
ISO18000-6C RFID-based sticker tags tags are in-use on the project
TREO tag is a small size sticker-tag (half the size of a credit-card) that attaches to the vehicle windshield and is used to keep track of each and every trips made across the Port Mann Bridge and other roaming facilities.
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Tolling operations : key figures (February 2013)
2,601,594 transactions posted per month 54% of tag penetration 36% of transactions were sent to Image Review <2% of unbillable transactions 455,403 accounts registered 710,195 vehicle license plates registered 359,606 unregistered vehicles since Dec. 8 2012