Guatemalan highway operator SiVA is to deploy Thales’ Peage Intelligent Transport Zero (PITZ) electronic toll collection system along the country’s vital Palin-Escuintla toll road corridor.
The sixth generation of Thales’ PITZ solution can integrate a variety of payment forms including cash, electronic tolls and bank cards. It can also handle more than 120 vehicles per minute, which is regarded as a major benefit by SiVA given that more than 22,000 vehicles use the Palin-Escuintla toll road corridor daily.
What’s more, PITZ has been designed to deliver real-time management and supervision of individual toll lanes while integrating with backend systems and ensuring accurate income and revenue processing for all toll transactions.
Thales teams located in Mexico and Guatemala will manage the implementation of the project, for 12 lanes and two toll plazas.
Nadia Gonzales, vice president, Latin America and Mexico country director, Thales, said: “Thales is very pleased to be helping SiVA significantly improve traffic flow and revenue collection on Guatemala’s busiest highway.
“Leveraging Thales digital security expertise, the PITZ solution is a powerful platform to help reduce missed payments and fraud using Thales’ well-known cryptographic technology to guarantee the security of data from every source.”
The Palin-Escuintla contract builds on 20 years of PITZ installations in Mexico and strengthens Thales’ position in the Latin American toll solutions market.
In Mexico, Thales has deployed a high-tech mega-toll station in San Martín comprising 38 lanes that allows integrated real-time management of toll collections and automatically identifies different vehicle types through optical and in-ground sensors to improve traffic flows.
Sandro Testelli, director of Marhnos Guatemala, which owns SiVA, said: “We’re thrilled to be working with Thales because they are an experienced smart tolling player in Latin American and the ideal partner to help SiVA Guatemala quickly integrate the PITZ solution with both existing and new tolling infrastructure along the Palin-Escuintla road.
“Based on our history of success with Thales in Mexico, we know we can trust them to deliver a flexible and secure that can scales as needed and handle the large volume of the country’s busiest highway for trade.”
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