FULLERTON, Calif., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's landmark
Electronic Toll and Traffic Management System (ETTM) is now fully operational
in Israel serving the Trans-Israel Highway. This state of the art system
became operational early last month with the opening of the final leg of
Highway 6.
"The Trans-Israel Highway is now the most technologically advanced toll
road in the world, with many Raytheon innovations, such as real-time
enforcement of violators," said Mike Prout, president of Raytheon's Highway
Transportation Management Systems. "The success of Israel's Highway 6 builds
our reputation as an on-time provider of proven, state-of the art electronic
toll collection systems using the customer's choice of DSRC Protocol with
video tolling. Raytheon congratulates Derech Eretz Consortium on this
momentous occasion."
The 87-kilometre highway, called the backbone of Israel's highway network,
employs a fully functioning toll system developed, installed and maintained by
Raytheon. The toll is taken automatically, from using transponders or images
of the vehicle license plate taken at various points along the highway. The
toll is collected from either the vehicle owner's credit card or by an invoice
sent directly to the owner. The ETTM system, which runs the entire length of
the highway, is the third generation of the system developed by Raytheon,
following the 407 ETR in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian system combines first
and second generation technologies. The 407 ETR was the world's first all-
electronic open road toll road allowing access to any vehicle, with or without
transponders, on a multi lane toll road.
During the highway's official opening ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon emphasized the project's importance to Israel's transportation
network The Trans-Israel highway is Israel's first toll road and the first to
be built with private entrepreneurs.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2003 sales of $18.1 billion, is an
industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 78,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Janet Kopec
972 952 2547
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