HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94664        FILED ON: 5/12/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4664

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act PROVIDING FOR AN AUTOMATED TOLL COLLECTION REVIEW..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation shall to conduct a study of the benefits and challenges of a fully-automated toll collection system to serve Massachusetts toll roads.

The said review by the department shall present fully-automated toll collection system alternatives, including open-road tolling; examine ways in which these alternatives impact operating costs, motorist wait-time and vehicle congestion and idling at Massachusetts toll road collection sites; provide recommendations for the implementation of a fully-automated toll collection system; and propose guidelines for enforcement.

The department shall present its findings and recommendations for a fully-automated toll collection system to the Joint Committee on Transportation within three months from the adoption of this legislation.