In response to an update request, I’m trying to add tolls to the entrances to PEI National Park but I can’t figure out the interface. The entrances located at the segments below require an entrance fee or a Parks pass to enter the park during the high season, which is approximately June to September (dates vary by year), and is free for the rest of the year. Also, at the Stanhope entrance, if you tell the booth attendant that you’re heading for the Covehead Wharf (a private wharf with several popular businesses that you cannot get to except by driving through the park) they will let you enter for free, but I don’t think that needs to be coded into the map.
Without these tolls on the map, trips originating in Stanhope are routed into the park, even for users with “avoid tolls” enabled, since a numbered highway and scenic route passing through the park is a significant shortcut for traffic heading west. There have been multiple URs about this over the years.
The toll attribute applies in both directions on a segment. But this should not be a problem as presumably a driver would want to exit again eventually.
The toll only applying at certain times of year will have to be sorted out somehow. I’d use a parallel / overlapping segment with date restrictions equal to those for the tolls, meaning that outside of those dates that segment could be freely used and the toll segment ignored.
It should be possible to apply a one-way toll, but I can’t see the restrictions interface on segments locked over my level so I don’t know how it works. The Confederation Bridge (permalink) has one-way tolls: if I set a route from Charlottetown to Moncton the app advises me of the toll on the bridge, but it doesn’t if I reverse the route. Maybe that’s down to setting the toll cost in each direction, but again I can’t see the interface.
I couldn’t figure it out in the interface I did have access to, hence this request. If it actually can’t be done then you’re right, setting the toll both ways at the toll booths wouldn’t be a problem because there is no way to exit the park without driving past one, so Waze would route through it anyway, as long as tolls are a lower penalty than private roads (there are some gated service entrances set as private roads on the map, I think it would be safe to remove them if they’re a problem).
The dates for this year were June 5 - September 2, but these change every year.
Ah, I didn’t see that about the bridge, that just the one-way segment with the toll booth is tolled.
It looks like your setup should work, except we won’t be able to test it until next summer, and I’m concerned that the app will show that you should drive to the left of the toll booth in the off-season which would be driving into oncoming traffic.
What happens if you split the road around the toll booth and set a restriction that the inbound segment is “toll free for public transportation” during the summer? There is no public transportation up here, the interface says all other vehicles pay toll when I try to apply that setting, and you can apply that in one direction.