Do Yourself A Favour And Get The RFID Tag For Your Car Now!

If you haven’t gotten the RFID fitted for your car, you should probably do it now! 

PLUS Malaysia Bhd (PLUS) will start having RFID lanes on all its 83 closed toll systems from North to South, including the LPT2 highway along the East Coast.

Photo via Free Malaysia Today

In line with the Government’s vision of Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF), the RFID on PLUS’s closed systems marks the completion of a fully RFID highway ecosystem, which offers consumer the ease of cashless toll transaction, the convenience of instant reload via online banking and e-wallets and most importantly, to ensure we’re all free from the hassle of pricey gadgets and the need for batteries to power-up the smart tags. 

PLUS kicked off their full Electronic Toll Collection in 2017, and the highway industry embraced RFID as a cashless payment system on its Open Toll Highways in August of 2018. 

For the past 36 months, it has enabled PLUS to coordinate the RFID system with Touch ‘N Go, that leads to the acceptance at all its 10 Open Toll systems in 1st of January, and by April 2020, the entire PLUS highway (both Open Toll and Close Toll systems) will accept payments via RFID.

Datuk Azman Ismail, Managing Director of PLUS Malaysia Berhad explained, “We anticipate an increase in demand of the RFID, especially among our daily highway customers, which is approximately around 1.7million drivers. With PLUS now offering RFID, the customer journey, which use to be from Juru to Damansara toll, has now been extended into city, KLCC for example and even to urban and sub-urban areas like Wangsa Maju or even Kajang. The journey will be seamless as there is interconnectivity between the intra and intercity highways,” 

This move to expand the use of RFID on the PLUS highway meets the current need and expectation of today’s highway users who demand smoother and hassle-free toll transactions and passage at toll plazas.

“Through RFID, highway customers will no longer have to struggle with their Touch ‘n Go card reload as it can be easily done online through mobile phones and Touch ‘n Go eWallet applications which are directly linked to RFID Tags embedded on vehicles,” he said.

Since the RFID is still being introduced, payments at tolls using Touch ‘N Go card and SmartTAG will still be available, to facilitate the migration of highway customers towards embracing RFID within this year. 

This is to enable highway customers to use the RFID system for toll transactions. PLUS advises highway users to install RFID tags at their RFID fitment centres nationwide. 

Customers may also visit RFID Fitment Centres provided by Touch ‘N Go Sdn Bhd for RFID Touch ‘N Go stickers. 

Full list of the RFID Fitment Centres can be found on their website.

There will also be 17 RFID Fitment Centres available on PLUS highways.

RFID Tag fitment centers will be open at selected key rest areas beginning 13 March to facilitate PLUS highway customers to install RFID Tag stickers on their vehicles. 

The following is the list of RFID Fitment Centres along PLUS highway:-

Klang Valley/Central Region:

Southern Region:

North Region:

East Coast:

A total of 173 RFID lanes - including 131 dedicated RFID lanes will be opened at 83 toll plazas on PLUS highways from 1 April 2020.

By: Aishah Akashah Ahadiat