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Uses and benefits of boom barrier gates

When you have driven through a toll booth, checkpoint, parking lot, etc., you have likely gone through an automatic boom barrier gate. These gates are used to regulate both the flow of traffic and the access of cars to specific places. Turnstile gate is another name for automatic boom gates. Instead of being a gate, they resemble a bar or a pole more. It has a long arm that automatically descends to obstruct the way of approaching vehicles. When a vehicle presents a pass, enters a code, or pays a toll, the bar is raised to let the vehicle through. The arm is raised and lowered by them using an electric motor. Many automatic boom gates have attached electric motors. Here are some of the advantages of the same: They frequently appear in parking lots. It gives authorities the ability to impose traffic restrictions on automobiles until their owners pay a fee. To cause the boom gates to rise and allow them to leave, they had to show the tickets they had been given after paying the money. T...

Toll barriers: An intelligent control system over the vehicles

Road tolls are charged to provide highway facilities and to maintain road safety and construction work. Many times people refuse to pay this amount. Also, some frauds and people try to escape at toll plazas by over speeding and hitting the barricades. Scanners and CCTV cameras can capture their vehicle numbers and even identify their faces. So the requirement of tightened security of toll plazas has given birth to the toll barriers. There are many things that people still don't know about toll barriers. Why are toll-barriers known as intelligent vehicle control systems? We want the best services from our government. The government needs funds to provide top-class, congestion-free, and risk-free roads. When we pay tax, the government gets funds to invest in road safety factors and facilities. Hit and run cases, refusing toll payments by breaking barricades, and not following traffic rules are common in our country. So the government invested in automatic toll barriers. These toll ba...