<p>Aworkable European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) which will allow truck drivers to travel across the continent and pay tolls using a single account and OnBoard Unit (OBU) was originally timetabled to be in place and operating by October of this year. A lack of urgency from some of the stakeholders involved in the formulation process and worries over perceived risk within the business case have resulted in delays but we can now expect to see a solution in operation for trucks within the next few years, according to Klaus Schierhackl, Chief Financial Officer of Austria’s national road operator, <span class=&quot;glossary-item&quot;>ASFiNAG</span>.<br> <br> </p><h3>Unifying influence</h3><p>Across Europe, 5.8GHz DSRC systems conforming to CEN TC 278 standards predominate and in theory interoperability across different tolling schemes shouldn’t be much of a problem &#8211; indeed, the main system producers and vendors will allude to their ‘interoperable’ systems whenever the issue is raised. The reality is somewhat less straightforward: discrete and often unconnected tolling scheme deployments which have their own account and account-handling set-ups and which as a result are ‘interoperable’ in little more than name. <br> </p><p>기사원문보기 : <a href=&quot;http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/comment-interview/interviews/europes-electronic-toll-service-closer-to-operational-reality/&quot;>http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/comment-interview/interviews/europes-electronic-toll-service-closer-to-operational-reality/</a></p>