Toll

The word toll has several meanings.

Road transportation infrastructure

• "Toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariff
  • Toll road, a road for which road usage tolls are charged
  • Toll plaza, a facility where tolls are collected, on modern toll roads, tunnels, and bridges
  • Toll bridge, a bridge for which road usage tolls are charged
  • Toll tunnel, a tunnel for which road usage tolls are charged
  • Toll house, a place where road usage tolls are collected
  • Electronic toll collection, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads by collecting tolls electronically
  • High occupancy toll, a road pricing scheme that gives motorists in single-occupant vehicles access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes
  • Shadow toll, payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based on the number of vehicles using the road
  • High-occupancy toll, a pricing scheme aimed at minimizing traffic congestion within the lanes
• Road toll, the number of deaths caused annually by road accidents

Organisations

• Toll Collect, a transportation support company in Germany
• Toll Holdings, an Australian transportation company
• Toll NZ, a trucking company in New Zealand

Other

• Funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals
• Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), Swedish statesman and soldier
• Toll (gene), encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins
• Toll-like receptor, a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system
• Toll switching trunk, in telephone communications systems
• Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note Trunk vs Toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers
• Tolling (law), a doctrine which allows for the pausing or delaying of the running of the period of time set forth by a statute of limitations

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Toll"