Technologies and systems to more easily enable pay-to-use roadways are finding the on-ramp to toll roads, and other ways of charging for highway use.
A toll road network in Orange County, Calif., now allows drivers who receive a violation — generally, those drivers who don’t have a valid FasTrak account — to easily pay their toll by scanning a QR code on the bill they receive in the mail.
“Agencies have done a really good job at updating all of their technology, going cashless. But the payment [process] is still really hard, and sort of legacy behind,” said Anne Hay, chief marketing officer for PayNearMe, the technology company operating the back-end payment system used by Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) a transportation network organization made up of the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency and the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency, both in southern California…