Regional ITS Architecture

TM10: ATMS10-Electronic Toll Collection - Highway ETC

Need Area Description

This service package provides highway/thruway/turnpike operators with the ability to collect tolls electronically and detect and process violations. The fees that are collected may be adjusted to implement demand management strategies. Dedicated short range communication between the roadway equipment and the vehicle is required as well as fixed–point to fixed–point interfaces between the toll collection equipment and transportation authorities and the financial infrastructure that supports fee collection. Vehicle tags of toll violators are read and electronically posted to vehicle owners. Standards, inter–agency coordination, and financial clearinghouse capabilities enable regional, and ultimately national interoperability for these services. Two other service packages, APTS4: Transit Passenger and Fare Management and ATMS16: Parking Facility Management also provide electronic payment services. These three service packages in combination provide an integrated electronic payment system for transportation services.

The toll tags and roadside readers that these systems utilize can also be used to collect road use statistics for highway authorities. This data can be collected as a natural by–product of the toll collection process or collected by separate readers that are dedicated to probe data collection.

Need Area Type: Mobility

Service Package

TM10: SANDAG Electronic Toll Collection

Includes Needs

Number	Need
01	Electronic Toll System Operators need to allow users to set up and maintain a user account.
02	Electronic Toll Collection needs to allow toll payment without the vehicle stopping at a toll plaza.
03	Electronic Toll System Operators need to be able to detect, process, and notify users of toll violations in order to prevent loss of revenue due to toll violations.
04	Electronic Toll System Operators need to be able to support interagency coordination and financial clearinghouse operations so that multiple toll agencies are able to operate with the same type of user devices.
05	The toll operations need to be able to set the road pricing based on the time of the day, traffic condition and vehicle characteristics (vehicle size, weight, axle count, etc.) and stored toll prices.