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Hungary firm cuts workers over delayed electronic toll road project
Hungary-based tech firm Roatex Indonesia Toll System (RITS) has terminated half of its workforce today in response to delays in implementing the country's electronic toll road payment system.
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Cars pass through the Marga Jaya 2 tollgate, which is part of the Bekasi-Cawang-Kampung Melayu Toll Road, in Bekasi, West Java, on March 24. According to RITS CEO Atilla Keszeg, Indonesia will complete its multi-lane free flow (MLFF) toll road system trial run by the end of this year. (Antara/Fakhri Hermansyah)
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ungary-based Roatex Indonesia Toll System, known as RITS, has cut twenty employees, which comprised almost half of its total workforce, following delays in implementing a multi-lane free flow (MLFF) system, which it is currently developing alongside the government.
MLFF allows toll road operators to collect payments electronically without stopping drivers at tollbooths, which enables smoother traffic flow.
In Indonesia, the system will be supported by camera gantries that record the license plates of cars traveling on the toll road.
“Employee efficiency needs to be done,” RITS CEO Attila Keszeg stated in a media briefing held in the Embassy of Hungary on Monday.
“We’re now at the operational phase so we need human resources that are actually fully in line with the company’s vision,” he added.
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In May, Roatex Hungary sacked a number of directors in RITS, including its managing director, following RITS’s failure to carry out a trial of the technology that was initially planned for June 1, less than two years after the company won a tender for the project in 2021.
