Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

[stile99]

Yeah, Texas does this and I like it. If you don't have a "tolltag" account with fund (just like a pikepass) you get billed at a higher rate. They send out the bills monthly, and you have 25 days to pay, or you get a $10 administrative fee. I've actually gotten mailed a bill up here (you have to get over $50 to get mailed if you're out of state).

What's nice about this, is that it encourages out of state drivers to use the toll roads more.

The out of state part was something I had in mind as well. I really wish states would interlink their turnpike tag systems, but in lieu of that just sending the registered owner a bill via plate scan will do as well. I'm fine with the charge being slightly higher, because there are mail costs, but on the other hand I also agree that not paying someone to sit in the booth is going to result in a certain amount of savings as well. What I had in mind was a fresh experience from recently renewing my tags. There's the tag fee. Then the insurance fee (not really 100% certain what this is, it costs $1.50 to verify I have insurance? Then why am I printing that card out every six months?). Then the mail fee. Then the fee if paying by credit card.

Thankfully it doesn't look like it would be something like that, so bring it on. Like I said, I have a Pikepass, but let's be honest, the real reason I have that is to avoid the bottleneck that results from paying cash. Removing the booths removes that bottleneck.

We can rebuild it. We have the technology.

[baralheia]

The out of state part was something I had in mind as well. I really wish states would interlink their turnpike tag systems, but in lieu of that just sending the registered owner a bill via plate scan will do as well.

Electronic tolling does enable interoperability, as long as the toll collection equipment can read the tags, and indeed many tolling systems are linked together. For instance, in the northeastern US, a handful of states are members of the EZ-Pass network; Pikepass has enabled IOP with K-Tag in Kansas, and NTTA in the DFW Metroplex. Additionally, OTA has secured an agreement with TxDOT to allow Pikepasses to be used on the rest of Texas' toll roads beginning sometime in 2017, and in the future hopes to also secure agreements with turnpike operators in Georgia and Florida (Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capit...f07089ac6.html). IOP is dependent upon the tolling hardware being able to read tags from other toll roads; there are something like 3 different electronic tolling standards in use in the US right now.