{"id":630340,"date":"2024-01-22T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=630340"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T04:38:42","slug":"budget-2024-beyond-the-booth-how-fastags-digital-toll-system-accelerated-indias-highway-experience-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2024-beyond-the-booth-how-fastags-digital-toll-system-accelerated-indias-highway-experience-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2024 | Beyond the booth: How FASTag\u2019s digital toll system accelerated India\u2019s highway experience \u2013 Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highways in India are the lifelines of the nation\u2019s transportation system. However, toll booths, once considered necessary evils, often created bottlenecks and hampered the smooth flow of traffic. Enter FASTag, an electronic toll collection system that has revolutionized the way we pay tolls in India. The traditional practice of paying user fees in cash at road toll plazas is rapidly being replaced by FASTags and other electronic payment systems, aiming to enhance the seamless experience of road travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highways in India are the lifelines of the nation\u2019s transportation system. However, toll booths, once considered necessary evils, often created bottlenecks and hampered the smooth flow of traffic. Enter FASTag, an electronic toll collection system that has revolutionized the way we pay tolls in India. The traditional practice of paying user fees in cash at road toll plazas is rapidly being replaced by FASTags and other electronic payment systems, aiming to enhance the seamless experience of road travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}