The long-awaited return of truck tolls is still on track for 2027, albeit a little later than the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) had promised.
The transportation department on Friday awarded a tentative $944,000 contract with Canadian-based Quarterhill to create a new back office system that will manage toll transactions on tractor trailers traveling over the state’s highways. It was one of nine entities to respond by the state’s March 27 bidding deadline. The others were Bridge Atlantic, LLC; Emovis USA, Inc; Kapsch TrafficCom USA, Inc; Legnetix, Inc; Neology, Inc; SWC Group; ViaPlus, LLC; and Vitronic Machine Vision, Inc.
Electronic Transaction Consultants, LLC, doing business as Quarterhill, indicated in its technical proposal that the new billing system would go online no later than May 2027. But it is possible tolls won’t go online until July, confirmed RIDOT spokesperson Charles St. Martin…