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Toll cameras will also record speeding

Monday, Nov 20, 2023

The toll management software has 50 mobile, 295 stationary and 100 weighted-in-motion checkpoints, which already capture the speed limit. This was announced by the director of the National Toll Administration (NTA), Georgi Temelkov, at a briefing where the working method of the electronic toll collection system was demonstrated. "The system monitors sales, traffic, traffic jams at border crossings, the load on the axles of each vehicle, and recently recorded the speed limit as well," announced the Chairman of the Management Board of the Road Infrastructure Agency (RIA), Eng. Yasen Yordanov. He explained that all the innovations are used to reduce road trauma, because all the stationary control points make full coverage of the roads throughout the country. "500 are the kiosks at gas stations for the sale of vignettes throughout the country. The goal of NTA is to collect more funds from sales, not from fines, added the Management: "Agree that without control there will be no sales."
The image material that the system offers for a speeding offense will include four images. "The tests showed that the program can be certified after minor software changes," Temelkov also said and promised: "It will take time, but we are on the way to success with this introduction as well." The Bulgarian Institute of Meteorology is expected to certify NTA's speeding software. Assoc. Georgi Balabanov, an external expert at the National Toll Administration clearly demonstrates in real time how the toll monitoring control works and reports speeding offenders. "Electronic law enforcement of the hundred weighted-in-motion checkpoints that monitor truck axle overloading on the road will be launched very soon," Balabanov said. It showed a truck moving in real-time and the system showed an out of bounds load on the road, reading 54 tons. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the Customs Agency, the National Revenue Agency (NRA) also have this data from the system, Temelkov specified. The main task of the system is to monitor tolls, but other functionalities such as speed limit and load enforcement are useful and we use them, Balabanov explained.
"According to the recognition of other European colleagues, Bulgaria has one of the most modern toll systems, manages to process a huge amount of data, law enforcement and verification have been introduced, we also have a call center for consumers and for the fourth year in a row we are doing quite well according to the changes and the dynamics that follow the needs of society," said Temelkov. The software of the national toll administration also helps with information on winter cleaning, provides timely data on queues at the country's customs border points, it became clear from the briefing.