Toll facts for kids

The word toll has several meanings.

Road transportation infrastructure

• "Toll" is sometimes used as a synonym for tariff
  • A fee charged to use some roads and bridges
  • 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 toll on single-occupant vehicles using high-occupancy vehicle lanes to reduce traffic congestion
  • Shadow toll, payments made by government to the private sector operator of a road based on the number of vehicles using the road
• Road toll, the number of deaths caused annually by road accidents

Other

• Funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals
• Toll (gene), encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins
• Toll-like receptor, a class of proteins which 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