"The government of São Paulo authorized an increase of 4.6% starting from this sunday and aims to take down taxes with the use of a new technology in the next years."
Edson Perin
June 29th, 2012 - The vacation of June of 2012 will get more expensive for people in São Paulo already in the first kilometers. Whoever travels by the Anchieta-Imigrantes system, for example, which connects São Paulo's capital to the south, will now pay R$ 21.20 in toll starting from sunday, July 1st 2012. Reason: the government of São Paulo authorized an increase of 4.6% in taxes, based on inflation, in all state's highroads.
One of the big problems of tolls currently (and always - at least until now), is that they charge the same value from vehicles that travel 100% of the course or a few dozen meters after the collecting points. The most fair would be charge by the quantity of kilometers traveled, according to specialists of the state government itself. Thus, who travels 50km pays R$ 1.00, and who travels 500km pays R$ 10.
Peer to Peer: sensors in the highways charge taxes individually, by kilometer traveled.
Dream? No! It is a project called Peer to Peer and is already being tested in two roads of São Paulo. The system will have RFID as a technologic base, which is already being used for years in several highways by the Sem Parar - Via Fácil, to automatize the payment in mall parking lots, and that now has another service company as a competitor, DBTrans.
The objectives of the government of São Paulo with the RFID technology, according to Giovanni Pengue Filho, coordinator of the Peer to Peer project, are to be the most fair toll charging system, easing the entrance of new players in the automatic tax charging in tolls' system, stimulate competition between the automatic charging operators and stimulate the development of high technologies by local companies. The Peer to Peer is also aligned with Siniav's project, which aims to include RFID tags in all brazilian vehicles, for automatic fiscalization.
Source: http://brasil.rfidjournal.com
