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More facilities are likely to introduce tolls in the future, given infrastructure funding needs and recent improvements in tolling technology that allow for open-road tolling without overhead gantries, letting traffic flow more freely.
Where the Money Is R. Richard Geddes 2011
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Thanks to new open-road technology, these pricing programs can be put in place without forcing a single driver to slow down to pay a toll or have their transponder "read."
Gas Taxes Are High Enough Mary E. Peters 2008
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Harley is looking to broaden its products sold, with plans to produce a three-wheel motorcycle, or "trike," that has demonstrated appeal to enthusiasts, who for age or other reasons can't afford the risk of a two-wheel open-road vehicle.
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Then engineers figured out they worked fine at highway speeds, and that plazas could be eliminated for "open-road" tolling of vehicles with transponders.
Life in the Slow Lane Robert W. Poole Jr. 2007
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Richard and his wife are in the process of selling their house and going on the open-road indefinitely.
Dead ant, Dead ant… 2004
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But why equip an open-road bridge with winch-rings?
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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But why equip an open-road bridge with winch-rings?
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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But why equip an open-road bridge with winch-rings?
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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But the results are mixed: On open-road jaunts like the cooing 'Be Still My Beating Heart', Kirkland unfurls boogie and blues-influenced lines as a reflexive, natural-sounding counterpoint to the vocals.
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Simon reckoned that he might still get on if he arrived as late as 12.45, but that still gave him only an hour and three quarters to travel those seventy-five miles, in far from open-road conditions.
Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983
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