Skip to main content

Colombia road tolling contract

DEVISAB recently awarded a major contract to modernise the control centre and renew three toll plazas on a highway linking the municipality of Chia with Girardot and Soacha, west of capital Bogota Indra already has a strong position in the Colombian infrastructure and transport industry. The firm operates flagship projects such as the Bogota-Villavicencio divided highway and the Medellin urban mobility system The contract is to renovate the technology used at three toll plazas and a control centre fo
June 20, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Bogota’s transport links will be improved with the improved highway links
DEVISAB recently awarded a major contract to modernise the control centre and renew three toll plazas on a highway linking the municipality of Chia with Girardot and Soacha, west of capital Bogota

5264 Indra already has a strong position in the Colombian infrastructure and transport industry. The firm operates flagship projects such as the Bogota-Villavicencio divided highway and the Medellin urban mobility system

The contract is to renovate the technology used at three toll plazas and a control centre for the road linking the municipalities of Chia, Mosquera, Girardot and Soacha. The deal is worth around US$2.4 million and the work is due for completion in the second quarter of 2016.

Under the terms of the deal, Indra will deploy toll and electronic toll systems on 21 collection lanes at the toll plazas of Tebaida, Mondoñedo and the Soacha municipality access lane. These will be used along a 159km stretch of the highway that runs north to south through the Department of Cundinamarca, west of Colombia’s capital Bogota.

The installation will utilise innovative electronic tolling technology developed by Indra. The firm says that this will allow the concessionaire to manage finances, users, accounts, payment methods and also provide report generation. Indra will is also deploying CCTV surveillance technology for the toll plazas, as well as a sophisticated license plate recognition package, signalling platforms and other systems.

The project consolidates Indra's position as technology partner to the Colombian infrastructure sector, where it has deployed its smart technology for traffic management and public transportation in Medellin. It is also equipping 18 tunnels on the Bogota-Villavicencio divided highway with traffic management and tunnel control systems, while there are other projects also underway. Indra's toll technology is already used in Colombia on the Devinorte and Los Llanos highways, the Odinsa toll concession for INVIAS and the Autopistas del Café.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Columbia looks for more funding of 4G motorway projects
    April 15, 2015
    Colombia's national agency for infrastructure, Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura (ANI), has announced the second wave of 4G motorway projects made of nine projects that will require US$5.64 billion. Four proposals were received for the first of these projects, the Puerta de Hierro-Palmar de Varela-Cruz del Vizo motorway, a 202km road will require around $470 million. L:ast November World Highways reported that a major programme of PPP road construction concession contracts is due for Colombia. It wa
  • Keeping tunnels safe
    July 20, 2012
    In 2006 Traficon won the first project on the world's first artificial island, the iconic Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, to provide incident detection and traffic data collection along the main arterial road. The technology used included 18 detection units and was won with Siemens Building Technology. The company also won the contract for the tunnel: 26 detection units, in cooperation with Japanese Kinden Corporation. "The Palm Jumeirah vehicular tunnel is in fact the third tunnel (the others are the airport tunne
  • Colombia key city highway connection
    September 2, 2016
    An upgrade of the route connecting Colombia’s capital Bogota with the second city of Medellin is now being considered. The plan would see the route being upgraded to a highway along a 120km stretch of the route, which would feature two lanes of traffic in either direction.
  • Study for Colombia’s key city route
    October 6, 2016
    A feasibility study is underway for the highway project to connect Colombia’s capital Bogota with the country’s second city, Medellin. The 427km route will be of major benefit to the country by cutting journey times between the two cities to around five hours. However the project looks likely to face serious challenges, particularly with regard to the topography of key sections of the route. Tunnels may have to be constructed to avoid some of the steeper climbs on the current route. Widening the existing ro