Toll

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The word toll has several meanings.

Road transportation infrastructure

• A fee charged for the use of a road or waterway
  • Road toll (historic), the historic practice of charging for road use
  • Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use
  • 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 canal, a canal for which use tolls are charged
  • Toll tunnel, a tunnel for which road usage tolls are charged
  • Toll house, a place where road usage tolls are collected
  • Toll castle, a castle guarding a customs post, in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era
  • Electronic toll collection, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads by collecting tolls electronically
  • High-occupancy toll lane, a toll applied to low-occupancy vehicles when using a high-occupancy toll lane
  • 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 (Australia and New Zealand), term for road death toll i.e. the number of deaths caused annually by road accidents

Organisations

• Toll Brothers, Horsham Township, Pennsylvania based construction company founded by brothers Robert I. Toll and Bruce E. Toll
• Toll Collect, a transportation support company in Germany
• Toll Holdings, an Australian transportation company
• Toll NZ, a trucking company in New Zealand

People

• Bruce E. Toll (born 1943), co-founder of Toll Brothers
• Eduard Toll (1858–1902), Baltic German geologist and Arctic explorer
• Herman Toll (1907–1967), American politician from Pennsylvania
• Johan Christopher Toll (1743–1817), Swedish statesman and soldier
• John Toll (born 1952), American cinematographer
• John S. Toll (1923–2011), American physicist and educational administrator
• Karl Wilhelm von Toll (1777–1842), Baltic German aristocrat and general
• Robert I. Toll (born 1940), co-founder of Toll Brothers
• Sergiusz Toll (1893–1961), Polish entomologist
• Steve Toll (born 1974), Canadian lacrosse executive and former player
• Winfried Toll (born 1955), German conductor, singer, composer and academic teacher

Other

• Toll (gene), encode members of the Toll-like receptor class of proteins

• Toll (telecommunications), refers to connection charges, for instance note Trunk vs. Toll charging and toll-free telephone numbers

• Funeral tolling is the slow, solemn ringing of church bells at funerals
• Toll-like receptor, a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system
• Toll switching trunk, in telephone communications systems

• 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"
• Toll house (disambiguation)