Sri Lanka to install ETC system on expressway with Japans aid

30 November 2011: Japan's funding arm Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) will help to convert the manual toll collection system now being used on Sri Lanka's first expressway into an electronic toll collection (ETC) system. Currently tolls are collected by operators manually at exit points based on the distance travelled on the access-controlled four-lane expressway from Kottawa in Colombo district to Pinnaduwa in Galle district.

The construction of the first phase of the Southern Expressway from Kottawa to Pinnaduwa was jointly funded by JICA and Asian Development Bank (ADB), which also have paid for the vehicles required for operation and maintenance of the expressway, including tow-trucks, cranes, fire engines, ambulances and police vehicles. Currently there are eight interchanges on the highway. Toll plazas and toll office facilities are built at the interchanges for manual toll collection.

Source: Colombo Page