This unprecedented cooperative effort included representatives from the New Jersey Highway Authority (operator of the Garden State Parkway), the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, the New York State Thruway Authority, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the South Jersey Transportation Authority (operator of the Atlantic City Expressway), and the MTA Bridges and Tunnels. toll transactions and nearly 70% of all U.S. These seven agencies represented almost 40% of all U.S. In 1990, seven toll facilities from the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania joined to form an alliance known as the E-ZPass Interagency Group (IAG). By placing a small electronic tag on a windshield of a car, that car can pass through a toll lane equipped with a “reader” that collects and transmits customer account status electronically to the appropriate toll agency and the correct toll is charged to or credited against that customer’s account. ETC is a technological advance that allows a motorist traveling on a participating toll facility to pay his/her toll automatically from a prepaid account without having to fumble for cash or retrieve and present a toll ticket. In 1987, several toll agencies in the Northeast Corridor spanning New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania began to explore the potential regional application of an emerging technology known as Electronic Toll Collection (ETC). Our vision is to continue to be the preeminent electronic tolling program that advances interoperability throughout North America. The mission of the E-ZPass Group is to enable E-ZPass members and affiliated toll operators to provide customers with a seamless, accurate, interoperable electronic method of paying tolls and fees while preserving and enhancing the E-ZPass program.
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