EFC standards provide effective support for procurement and interoperability, and underpin the European electronic toll service legislation.

All new electronic toll systems brought into service on or after 1 January 2007 shall, for carrying out electronic toll transactions, use one or more of the following technologies:

The introduction of electronic toll systems will entail the processing of personal data.

The interoperability of electronic toll systems at Community level therefore needs to be ensured as soon as possible.

All new electronic toll systems brought into service on or after 1 January 2007 shall, for carrying out electronic toll transactions, use one or more of the following technologies:

Where Member States have toll systems, they shall take the necessary measures to increase the use of electronic toll systems.

Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems compliant with the European standard CEN TC 278:

The invention also relates to a barrier-free electronic toll collection station including at least one such gantry.

FasTrak, an RFID tag used for electronic toll collection in California

Japanese highways have a service called ETC (Electronic Toll Collection system).

How can you design a fraud-resistant, electronic toll collection system?

Pex, VINCI Highways' electronic toll collection subsidiary, is innovating by deploying Peru's first multimodal interoperability of electronic toll collection as payment systems with Real Plaza, the country's leading shopping centre chain.

On 30 June 2011, Poland introduced an electronic toll collection system "via TOLL" that replaced the vignettes.

Produced a rapid (50 km/h) Electronic Toll Collection System under TIS technology with automatic incident detection by video image analysis (AID)

Since 2011, ABR SESTA has worked for Grayling Poland, conducting awareness research of people using the electronic toll collection system viaTOLL in Poland.

As shown in the following figure, the architecture of the electronic toll collection system is shown, which is mainly composed of long range UHF RFID readers, antennas, lanes and UHF RFID tags on the front windshield of the car.

In Japan it is used for ETC (Electric Toll Collection System).

Thanks to its efforts in research and development, GEA has an ETC Free Flow system.

Completed the TIS ETC software integration (cars and light trucks) for nearly French motorway operators (light vehicles and HGVs)

Versluis’ customers will also from now onwards benefit from the large expertise of Easytrip: European electronic tolling, train booking, ferries and tunnels booking, fuel payments, etc.

Négométal offers professional users (transporters, sales professionals, etc.) solutions which are properly adapted to their fleet of heavy or light vehicles, using a unique NEGOROAD on-board unit.