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Michael holds a College Degree of Electrotechnical Engineering, based on his diploma on electronic fee collection. He looks back on some 35 years of project management and engineering experience. He founded his consulting firm in 1997, providing fully independent business advice and special know-how in the field of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and Road Transport and Traffic Telematics (RTTT) applications. He regularly publishes professional articles for the ITS world.

Besides numerous engagements in international industrial automation projects (see references) he was advisor to the Austrian Minister of Transport on his decision towards a fully electronic toll collection scheme and was - respectively still is - advisor to the Austrian MoT and to ASFiNAG regarding the Austrian Truck Tolling System operative since 2004, Lead consultant review & special tasks to ASFiNAG within the “GO Maut 2.0” project, deploying the new Austrian ETC System by 2018, advisor to the Swiss Customs Authority (OZD) regarding the countrywide ETC scheme LSVA, to the Slovenian MoT (and DARS) for the deployment of their tolling plans, and to GDDKiA and DARS in regard to managing the performance of the National Polish Toll Collection System.

Based on his more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of electronic tolling he has collected special know-how on the end2end business process- and system design, the tendering-, bid evaluation-, purchasing- and contracting process, as well as on the realization-, test-, handover and startup phases - completely independent of all the various technologies involved. His expertise includes the entire legal and commercial framework necessary for successful ETC project deployment.

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