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Tollway company NLEX Corp. has earmarked P1.2 billion in this year’s capital expenditures to enhance and maintain the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) system
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Initiatives include upgrade in its infrastructure, toll collection system, and account management system
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NLEX Corp. said these projects, which involve the upgrading of its core system and equipment, among others, will help improve the processing of lane transactions
Tollway company NLEX Corp. has earmarked P1.2 billion in this year’s capital expenditures to enhance and maintain the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) system.
NLEX Corp. said it has set out various initiatives to upgrade its infrastructure, toll collection system, and account management system. These projects, which involve the upgrading of its core system and equipment, among others, will help improve the processing of lane transactions.
With these NLEX enhancements, radio frequency identification (RFID) users, who constitute 70% of expressway motorists, can expect faster recording of passages, balances, and reloads as well as easier tracking of individual and corporate accounts, NLEX Corp. said in a statement.
“We keep on investing in innovative solutions to make our processes more efficient and most importantly, make the experience of our motorists more pleasant and comfortable as possible,” NLEX Corp. president and general manager J. Luigi Bautista said.
Aside from conducting software upgrade and system migration, NLEX Corp. will also replace its toll system equipment within the year. Close to 100 toll system equipment along the NLEX will be upgraded such as toll fare indicators, lane status indicators, traffic control gates, automatic vehicle classification devices, and loop detectors.
The project covers toll plazas in Balintawak, Karuhatan, Paso de Blas, Meycauayan, Marilao, Bocaue, Balagtas, Tabang, Sta. Rita, Pulilan, San Simon, San Fernando, Mexico, and Angeles. The new equipment is expected to boost operational efficiency as these will enable faster and more accurate transactions and guide motorists better at the plazas.
Bautista noted that since last year, the company has been equipping the toll lanes with new technology devices and implementing system enhancements. He highlighted that the currently upgraded system has significantly improved the RFID transactions from reloading to checking of account balances after passing at the lanes.
The improved data transmission between the Easytrip and NLEX toll collection systems allows real-time recording of lane entries and exits as well as immediate reflection in the RFID accounts of motorists their account balances and reloads done through quick reloading channels.
In line with this NLEX enhancements, RFID users are constantly being reminded to be responsible motorists by maintaining sufficient balance in their account before traveling since the tollway company had observed that a number of motorists repeatedly pass the RFID lanes without load or without enough load to cover their trips.
Aside from the NLEX system, the tollway company earlier said it is also implementing system upgrades totaling P162 million this year for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway which it also manages.
