The gantries on the Bangkok-Kanchanaburi highway have been popping up on social media lately. They are part of Thailand’s new M-Flow tolling system.
Taiwan’s Far Eastern Electronic Toll Collection, better known as FETC, said it helped deploy and run the tolling system on Thailand’s M81 highway with its Thai unit and BGSR81.
The system uses barrier-free tolling, so drivers do not have to stop to collect tickets at entry points, with number-plate recognition handling vehicle identification.
FETC said the platform combined AI and IoT tools to manage traffic and payments in real time, while also supporting several digital payment methods.
The company said Thailand’s more varied vehicle mix and more complex number plates created technical challenges, which it addressed with automatic licence-plate recognition.
The system is meant to keep traffic moving instead of bunching up at toll plazas.
The company also said travel time between Bangkok and Kanchanaburi has fallen from nearly two hours to about 48 minutes since the highway opened, with weekend traffic reaching around 55,000 vehicles.
FETC further said its earlier work on Thailand’s M9 M-Flow system helped lift traffic throughput fivefold, save motorists about 3.33 million hours a year, and cut fuel use and emissions.
