What South Africa Can Do With Its e-toll Gantries

[Phillip Coetser]

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Gauteng’s 43 e-toll gantries might not be the boon to law enforcement that some hope, although they could still be used for traffic enforcement once the e-toll system finally gets shut down.
Among the possible services that bidders could implement was an average speed-over-distance system.
Some organisations — including the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) — have asked whether the system could have more elaborate use cases, like assisting in proactive crime fighting.
A good example of a system currently doing this is Vumacam’s vast pole-mounted CCTV network in Johannesburg.
Only time will tell.