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LSVA

Leistungsabhängige Schwerverkehrsabgabe - The LSVA (Leistungsabhängige Schwerverkehrsabgabe) is a nationwide distance-related road fee that replaced an annual flat fee imposed on heavy vehicles in Switzerland.  The LSVA legislation resulted from treaties with the European Union when weight limits on transport vehicles carrying goods across the Alps were increased from 28 tons to 40 tons.  Studies forecast that this weight limit increase would double heavy goods traffic on the Swiss road network by 2015 unless the LSVA were enacted.  The intent of the measure was to encourage rail transport rather than road transport.

Loop Detector

*UPDATED* A vehicle sensor to detect the presence of a vehicle in the toll lane or within a toll zone. The metallic mass of a vehicle located above wires laid in the pavement produce electromagnetic signals that can be sensed electronically. Some advanced solutions called “smart loops” are designed to also detect the count of vehicle axles and presence of dual tires on heavy vehicles. Smart loop systems use this data to provide vehicle classification information

Liber-t

Commercial brand of the common interoperable Electronic Fee Collection (EFC) used for light vehicles in the French concession context.

Leakage

*UPDATED* The amount of toll revenue that is not collected due to missing or un-processable transactions, or from expected from classified vehicle transactions for which a toll payment is not successfully collected. Leakage may be classified as technical, business/institutional, or default leakage. The technical leakage categories include missing or un-processable transactions (most often from poor license-plate images). Another source of leakage can be from license-plate transactions with good images, but with unrecoverable owner of record information. A third general category of leakage includes the cases of legible license-plate images with identified owners, but the toll invoices or notices are not yet paid. Each toll operator may use slightly different definitions or categories of unsuccessful transactions, and may calculate leakage figures differently.

Lane Controller

A specific type of in-lane (generally, but not always) equipment used to respond to or detect in-lane sensors (AVI Reader, treadles, beam detectors, loops, etc.) and using precision algorithms, make appropriate decisions (raise gate, take violation image, activate driver feedback lights, etc.).

LAN

Local Area Network