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01/19/2015
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Dutra the stretch between São José dos Campos and Sao Paulo
Photo: Lucas Lacaz Ruiz / FotoArena / Folhapress Brasilia - From the second half of this year, the Brazilian car can start going through federal highways privatized without having to stop at toll booths and paying only the value of the tariff equivalent to stretch traveled on the highway. After some revisions on the calendar, the federal government provides to June 30 the entry into operation of the National Automatic Vehicle Identification System (Siniav). Chips will be installed in vehicles that allow the government to verify, by means of radio systems when they enter and leave the roads. The roads yet to be granted this type of toll collection can be made before the auction. In already privatized, an additive would be required. The chips are already used in some privatized roads in the interior of São Paulo, experimental. The state government estimates that, in the future, toll rates may fall by 30% on average, with this tecnologia.Pelo current model, the highway concession auctions are won by whoever offers the lowest toll rate per kilometer. After the auction, the utility indicates the points where the highway toll plazas will be installed in order to promote the fairest possible rates, in view of the main destinations and origins. In practice, however, there will always be that user to have to drive five kilometers, but pay toll, and he who travels long distances without being taxed. It is to promote a fairer charging - that also would increase the revenue of the concessionaire - the government of São Paulo and utilities plan a general fall in the value of tariffs with the adoption of electronic charge per kilometer system.
- As the electronic board is deployed in an increasing number of vehicles, the use of such equipment for electronic toll collection will increase the paying base and the reasonableness of the tariff. At that time, the concept prevail "where everyone pays, everyone pays less" - explains Gil Guedes, technical advisor of the Brazilian Association of Highway Concessionaires (ABCR).
Karla Bertocco Trinity, director general of the Transport Agency of the State of São Paulo (Artesp), explains that the billing system per kilometer in Sao Paulo, called Point to Point, has been successful among the selected 60 000 users for test. But he emphasizes that membership is voluntary, which ends up attracting more who happens to save on new charging model.
- For the concessionaire of the highway, the change is not necessarily good. In the long run, will be good, because it will be more satisfied users, paying a fairer value. But at first, the model is intended to correct distortions. With everyone paying for what you use in fact the highway, we expected reduction rates by 30% - Karla said.
With Siniav, chips will be installed in all the country's vehicles, similar to those deployed system for toll collection by private companies (Non-Stop, Conn Car, Auto Express and Move More). In the current model of these companies, the chip opens the gate at the toll plazas and records the cost, without the driver having to stop. In the future, the same chip will record the inputs and outputs of the car on the road, sending the bill later or discounting the vehicle's owner's claims - as already occurs with the parking charge for private companies, with the chip recording time use.
For the collection of the proportional toll begin earnest in 2015, however, it is expected that no further extension of the installation of Siniav provided for in law since 2006. In addition, it is necessary regulatory and bureaucratic adjustments. For federal grant contracts already under way, for example, would be necessary to negotiate with additives operators, as occurred in São Paulo. In favor of adoption is the fact that more than half of concession highways already have the technology to do this adaptation.
As already occurs in four highways of São Paulo, the chips should allow, in the future, which drivers to pay toll per kilometer on federal roads in pre and post-paid systems, with membership fees, tuition or fee for credit loading . By monitoring by radio, the measurement is accurate, with collection equivalent to the number of miles traveled. The system is known by the term in English free flow, or free flow, since you need not stop at any point of the road to pay toll.
- In the US, where the system already exists, cameras installed in the porches take pictures of the plates in case there is no record for payment and collection later mailed to the user, usually with a corresponding additional cost to the photo and posting. Analogue system is in place for several years in Chile and Australia - says Guedes, from ABCR.
The Artesp signed this year an agreement with the National Transportation Agency (ANTT) to share the automatic toll collection system technologies. For now, the federal agency evaluates the adoption of the free flow in future concessions.
According to ANTT, with Siniav the user will be able to hire the service "through payment in cash, pre- or post-paid, carry out the transaction in a specific cabin, where there is no need to stop, avoid queues in the manual cabins with no stops and starts, and reduce fuel consumption, pollutant emissions and vehicle costs, such as brakes and suspension. "
Next year, all cars must go through this process of electronic license plate, ensures the Ministry of Cities. How this will occur, however, is still unclear. According to the government, the Siniav will improve safety, mobility and productivity of the roads, "saving lives, time and money."
In the assessment of the Ministry of Cities, as well as changes in the billing model in tolls, the technology of Siniav allow the private sector a large supply of new services such as automatic access to parking lots, condominiums and supply services.
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