VIDEO TOLLING
What is Video Tolling?
Video Tolling (sometimes referred to as video billing) is a form of electronic toll collection, which uses still images of a vehicle’s license plate to identify a vehicle liable to pay a toll. The image is captured as the vehicle drives under the gantry or through a toll plaza at a toll-collection facility.
- Video Tolling Brochure (PDF Download)
- DriveEzMD.com
What is a Video Toll Transaction?
A Video Toll transaction occurs when a vehicle goes through a toll-collection facility in Maryland without paying the toll with cash or an E-ZPass account. The registered owner of the vehicle (using the address on file with the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration) is mailed a Notice of Toll Due (NOTD), to notify them of the payment due.
How is the Video Toll Rate Determined?
- Video Toll rates at all Maryland toll facilities are 1.5 times the Cash/Base Rate, with a minimum of $1 and maximum of $15 above the Cash/Base Rate.
- Pricing periods are peak, off-peak and overnight hours and days of the week when a particular mileage rate is in effect for all-electronic toll facilities. Peak period excludes federal holidays. Pricing periods may vary by up to 60 minutes earlier and later.
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Changes to the pricing periods may occur once travel patterns are assessed.
- Peak Period: Mon - Fri: 6 a.m. – 9 a.m.;
4 p.m. – 7 p.m. (excluding federal holidays) - Off-Peak Period: Mon - Fri: 5 a.m. – 6 a.m.;
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; 7 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Sat & Sun: 5 a.m. – 11 p.m. - Overnight Period: Sun - Sat: 11 p.m. – 5 a.m.
- Peak Period: Mon - Fri: 6 a.m. – 9 a.m.;
- In Maryland, the Intercounty Connector (ICC)/MD 200 and the I-95 Express Toll Lanes (ETL) are AET roads, and cash is not accepted. Customers without a valid E-ZPass account will be charged the Video Toll Rate.
Changes to the pricing periods may occur once travel patterns are assessed.
Video Tolling with E-ZPass
If you have E-ZPass, the Video Tolling system associates the license plate image with the account and debits the amount of the toll from the account.
I Have an E-ZPass Account, Why Did I Receive a NOTD?
Some of the most common reasons you may receive a NOTD if you have an E-ZPass account are:
- Insufficient funds on your E-ZPass account at the time of the transaction;
- The credit/debit card on the E-ZPass account has expired or was declined;
- The license plate of the vehicle is not listed on your E-ZPass account and no transponder was detected during the transaction;
- Your E-ZPass transponder was mounted improperly; or
- Your E-ZPass account is a Hatem Bridge Choice “A” Only Account that is valid only at the Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge (US 40).
Video Tolling without E-ZPass
Video Tolling allows drivers without E-ZPass to use the toll road and pay after receiving a mailed invoice, called a NOTD. However, a higher Toll Rate is charged for Video Tolling to offset the higher cost of processing Video Tolls. This process is called a Video Toll transaction.
I Do Not Own the Vehicle Shown On the NOTD. Why Did I Get this Notice?
Some of the most common reasons you may receive a NOTD for a vehicle you do not own are:
- You leased or rented the vehicle at the time of the Video Toll transaction and the owner transferred liability to you, or
- You accepted liability for the toll transaction in an affidavit filed with the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) or the court.
For more information about Video Tolling, including payments, visit DriveEzMD.com.
