Smart Tag - Definition and Overview

Smart Tag is an electronic toll collection system used in Virginia, USA. After signing up, consumers receive a transponder device which allows motorists to avoid stopping at toll booths and electronically debits their pre-paid toll account. The system is mostly interoperable with the E-ZPass toll collection system, with the exception that currently Richmond Metropolitan Authority owned toll roads and the Pocahontas Parkway only accept Smart Tag transponders; integration had been delayed due to damages from Tropical Storm Gaston.

Smart Tag was initially called Fastoll.

Roads which accept Smart Tag:

• VA 267/the Dulles Toll Road from Falls Church to Dulles International Airport (DC suburbs).
• The Dulles Greenway, a privately-owned highway from Dulles to Leesburg.
• Powhite Parkway and Powhite Parkway Extension in Richmond and Chesterfield County.
• Boulevard Bridge (the "Nickel Bridge", though it costs 25 cents now) in Richmond
• Pocahontas Parkway in Chesterfield and Henrico County.
• Chesapeake Expressway in Chesapeake.
• George P. Coleman Bridge, across the York River near Newport News (U.S. Highway 17).

External links

• Smart Tag (http://www.smart-tag.com/)
• E-ZPass Virginia (http://www.ezpassva.com/)