The Toll Paying System Without Touching Potentially Loss, Basuki: Measuring Trials Later

Illustration of toll gates (photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - Minister of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) Basuki Hadimuljono denied reports that the implementation of contactless toll road transactions or multi-lane free flow (MLFF) has the potential to harm toll road business entities (BUJT).

Minister Basuki said that the news was none other than an assumption that toll road entrepreneurs were quite worried about the occurrence of system malfunctions, allowing a number of vehicles to escape without making payments.

"Where did 20 percent of it come from (the potential portion of the loss borne by BUJT)? People have never been tested. Precisely with the trial to measure (the potential loss of BUJT), how much did they lose," said Basuki when met in Jakarta, quoted Wednesday, November 15.

"If there are concerns like that, but only our assumptions cannot be decided, so now try it," he added.

On the same occasion, the Director General of Highways of the Ministry of PUPR Hedy Rahadian ensured that the MLFF trial would be carried out in the second week of December 2023.

Later, the MLFF trial will measure the accuracy of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS).

Hedy explained that the MLFF trial phase would still use toll bars. With the hope that it can suppress the possibility of free vehicles escaping without making payments. Regarding technically, the first trial of MLFF on the Bali-Mandara Toll Road will be carried out at one toll gate only.

"Meanwhile, there are still (toll roads). So, we use the barrier first when the registration data improves, we just remove it, because it is to prevent loss. So, we will first measure what the loss looks like," he said.

The MLFF is the latest technology in the world that processes payments automatically for vehicles passing on toll roads.

Through this technology, toll road users can enter and leave without having to stop to pay.

This is possible because MLFF uses System Satellite Global Navigation (GNSS) technology, which is a system that allows transactions through applications on smartphones and reads via satellite, so that readers' tools on every place on toll roads such as RFID-based technology provide more effective cost solutions.