Editing Toll road (section)

===21st century===
[[File:SR 417 University Toll Plaza.jpg|thumb|right|Collecting tolls on [[Florida State Road 417|SR 417]] near [[Orlando, Florida]], United States. This shows the two common methods of collection of tolls: [[tollbooth]] (on right) and [[electronic toll collection]] (on left).]]
London, in an effort to reduce traffic within the city, instituted the [[London congestion charge]] in 2003, effectively making all roads within the centre of the city tolled.
[[File:Salik's Al Garhoud Bridge Toll Gate.jpg|thumb|Tolls in the UAE]]
In the United States, as states looked for ways to construct new freeways without federal funding again, to raise revenue for continued road maintenance, and to control congestion, new toll road construction saw significant increases during the first two decades of the 21st century. Spurred on by two innovations, the [[electronic toll collection]] system, and the advent of [[High-occupancy toll lane|high-occupancy and express lane toll]]s, many areas of the U.S. saw large road building projects in major urban areas. Electronic toll collection, first introduced in the 1980s, reduces operating costs by removing toll collectors from roads. Tolled express lanes, by which certain lanes of a freeway are designated "toll only", increases revenue by allowing a free-to-use highway to collect revenue by allowing drivers to bypass traffic jams by paying a toll.

The [[E-ZPass]] system, compatible with many state systems, is the largest ETC system in the U.S., and is used for both fully tolled highways and tolled express lanes. [[Maryland Route 200]] and the [[Triangle Expressway]] in North Carolina were the first toll roads built without toll booths, with drivers charged via ETC or by optical license plate recognition and are billed by mail.  In addition, many older toll roads are also being upgraded to an all-electronic tolling system, abandoning the hybrid systems they adopted during the late 20th century.  These include the [[Massachusetts Turnpike]], one of the oldest American toll roads, which went all-electronic in 2016, and the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]], America's oldest toll freeway, which went all-electronic in 2020, along with the [[Illinois Tollway]], which both accelerated their transitions to such due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].
[[File:Lefferts toll booth snow jeh.JPG|thumb|19th-century toll booth in [[History of Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]]]]