Lane Cove, Sydney

Transtoll were awarded the contract for the supply of a Multi-Lane Free-Flow electronic toll collection system for the Lane Cove Tunnel project in Sydney, Australia.  The project was awarded in November 2004 and tolling commenced in April 2007.

The Lane Cove Tunnel and Motorway consists of two 3.6 kilometre dual carriage road tunnels, with three lanes in longer sections, linking the M2 Motorway at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway in Artarmon, Sydney.

The main aspects of the project included twin road tunnels and new connections to M2, Pacific Highway & Gore Hill Freeway; and the widening of the Gore Hill Freeway, from Artarmon to North Sydney including transit lanes in each direction on the Gore Hill Freeway, the construction of north facing ramps between the Warringah Freeway and Falcon Street, North Sydney;

There is a tolling point for each direction of the mainline tunnel and a tolling point for each of the north facing ramps. A key feature of this project was the urban landscaping requirements for gantry design. Transtoll worked closely with all stakeholders to ensure that roadside infrastructure did not have a negative visual impact on the landscape.

A further feature of the system was the level of redundancy built into the design. As well as standard failsafe features, Transtoll implemented a dual roadside lane controller solution at each tolling point whereby the standby lane controller automatically kicks in if the primary controller fails.

Transtoll supplied a Multi-Lane Free-Flow electronic toll collection system that allows the collection of tolls without vehicles being required to slow down or stop at the tolling point.

Each tolling point is a cashless system allowing users to pay either by an interoperable CEN278 system that identifies vehicles by communicating with an on-board transponder (fitted to the vehicles windscreen) or by a casual user system that identifies vehicles by capturing an image of the licence plate number. The images are read using an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) engine allowing the licence plate number to be sent to a casual user and customer relationship management (CRM) system.

Transtoll supplied the full back-office software suite including toll management software, account management, violation processing and interoperability transaction transfers.