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ITE JOURNAL / MARCH 2001 THE ORLANDO-ORANGE COUNTY Expressway Authority (OOCEA) operates a 132-kilometer toll-road system in Orange County, FL, USA. This network includes 10 mainline toll plazas and 38 tollbooth ramps in operation. In mid-May 1994, the state-of-the-art electronic toll collection (ETC) system known as E-PASS that utilizes automated vehicle identification (AVI) technology was installed at two of the OOCEA’s mainline plazas and their associated ramps as the start of a full implementation plan for the first ETC system in the Orlando area. E-PASS is an ETC system that automatically identifies a vehicle equipped with a valid encoded data tag or transponder as it moves through a toll lane. The E-PASS system then posts a debit to the patron’s account without requiring the vehicle to stop for the transaction.1