Forget FASTag Enjoy Hassle Free Road Trips
Forget FASTag Enjoy Hassle Free Road Trips. India will soon see the end of the role of toll plazas. Yes, you heard it right! Indian commuters will soon be able to enjoy hassle-free road trips with GPS-enabled toll gates. The Government of India plans to bring in a GPS-based toll system to replace the current FASTag. This is to ensure easy payment and transport movements on the roads. The upcoming GPS-based toll system will replace FASTag because commuters will no longer be stopping at the toll plazas during road trips. Read on to know more about this new GPS toll system.
Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari’s Take On Hassle-Free Road Trips
Recently Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari reveal in the Parliament that the FASTag is facing challenges because it no longer is systematic. The 2015 system, made compulsory in 2021, fails to make road trips hassle-free.
The government of India is now planning to introduce a GPS-enabled toll system to replace FASTag. This system will ensure the end of toll plazas and will be operational from December 2022 onwards.
Uploading a video of his speech on the same in Parliament, Gadkari tweets, “We will come out with a new policy to replace toll plazas in the country with a GPS-based tracking toll system. It means that toll collection will happen via GPS. The money will be collected based on GPS imaging (on vehicles)”
We will come out with a new policy to replace toll plazas in the country with a GPS-based tracking toll system. It means that toll collection will happen via GPS. The money will be collected based on GPS imaging (on vehicles).: Union Minister Shri @nitin_gadkari ji pic.twitter.com/iHEfOqSlMc
— Office Of Nitin Gadkari (@OfficeOfNG) March 23, 2022
About The New GPS-Based Toll System That Will Replace FASTag
The motivation for the new GPS Based Toll framework comes from European nations. The framework is very fruitful in Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, and Slovakia.
The new cost framework will require vehicles to be fitted with GPS. On entering a parkway, an expressway framework will follow the vehicle. In view of the movement distance (in kilometers), the framework will naturally make the derivation at some random cost door. The GPS cost framework will likewise require transport proprietors to enlist their names, addresses, vehicle models, enrollment numbers, and financial balance subtleties.
A many individuals accept that the new cost framework that will supplant FASTag, will guarantee bother free travels for suburbanites. Be that as it may, many additionally see this as more testing as all vehicles should be fitted with GPS frameworks. Indeed, assuming the new cost framework will work better compared to FASTag, the truth will surface at some point!
Indian Toll System- #FASTag to be replaced by a GPS Technology by Dec.22:
Soon, the FASTag collection system which was rolled out recently and the long standing toll plazas would be phased out by Dec. 2022 as central government has, at last, started its…https://t.co/XmPhnxmJyH
— Ram Rastogi (@ramrastogi) May 5, 2022
