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Hungary to assist Indonesia with $90 million toll road technology
Indonesia and Hungary are in talks to build a multi-lane free flow (MLFF) e-toll system.
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Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó talks to the press on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, following a bilateral meeting with Indonesian ministers. (JP/Riza Roidila Mufti)
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ndonesia and Hungary are in talks to build a multi-lane free flow (MLFF) e-toll system that allows payments without gates while cars are moving. The technology is estimated to cost US$90 million.
The e-toll technology the country is offering uses a global navigation satellite sytem (GNSS). The technology has been used in several eastern European countries, including Hungary.
With GNSS, motorists no longer need to tap electronic money cards as vehicles would be charged tolls through sensors installed inside vehicles that identify their locations based on satellite connections. Installation of the GNSS e-toll system is projected to cost $90 million, Hungary’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday.
“An Indonesian-Hungarian joint venture has completed the feasibility study of an e-tolling system on the highways,” said Szijjártó. “We hope that Hungarian companies will be able to take part in the completion of the project as well.”
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Szijjártó said after meeting Public Works and Housing Minister Basuki Hadimuljono and National Development Planning Minister Suharso Monoarfa that bidding for the project would start in April. He expected the winning bidder for the latest e-toll technology to be announced by the end of this year.
Talks on installing toll road technology in Indonesia have been ongoing since 2017, when Indonesia embarked on extensive infrastructure development projects that aim to improve the country’s connectivity through toll roads and other ways.
