Toll Interoperability
The DOTr or the Department of Transportation together with the Department
of Public Works and Highways or DPWH, the Bases Conversion and Development
Authority or BCDA and the Land Transportation Office or LTO inked a
partnership that will ease the toll operation in all existing expressways
in the country.
The Department of Transportation, Department of Public Works and Highways,
Bases Conversion and Development Authority, Toll Regulatory Board, and the
Land Transportation Office recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement or MOA
with the toll road operators in the country to unify toll collection in
order to facilitate seamless travel and enhance connectivity.
Under the MOA, expressway operators will be required to update their
collection systems to allow interoperability and integration.
This way, motorists can experience a new level of convenience.
The interoperability for electronic toll collection shall be implemented
immediately, while cash payment collection shall be implemented six months
from the signing of the MOA.
In addition, the DOTr said that getting them all to agree on a common and
unified toll collection system is an exercise of both political will and
common sense.