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Toll Administration Equipment Package

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Description:

 This Equipment package provides the capability to maintain database information with pricing structure information. This capability shall be provided through database software containing pricing structure and current traffic conditions on the transportation network obtained from the transportation management center. This capability allows the determination of dynamic tolls according to congestion levels for demand management. Secure wireline communications with the financial infrastructure and distributed toll plazas supports electronic payments and other ancillary requirements such as lost/stolen tag identification and management. Dependent on customer account requirements and the clearinghouse arrangement, this Equipment package may also contain a billing database.

 

Included in:

 City of Pharr and B/M Bridge Electronic Toll Collection System
Lower RGV Bridge Toll Collection Systems

Processes:
5.4.2Process Violations for Tolls
7.1.1.3Manage Bad Toll Payment Data
7.1.1.6Collect Probe Data From Toll Transactions
7.1.1.7Update Toll Price Data
7.1.1.8Register for Advanced Toll Payment
7.1.1.9Manage Toll Financial Processing
7.1.8Exchange Data with Other Toll Administration
  

User Service Requirements (fully or partially addressed):

1.8.2TDM shall include a processing function.
1.8.2.1The processing function shall provide the capability to generate management and control strategies that facilitate the implementation of policies and regulations designed to address the following:
1.8.2.1(f)Public awareness of travel alternatives.
1.8.2.4The processing function shall provide the capability generate guidance for the pricing and control for locations of action that include, but are not limited to, the following:
1.8.2.4(e)Toll facilities.
1.8.2.10The processing function's dynamically generated management and control strategies shall include the parking management and controls to include, but not be limited to, the following:
1.8.2.10(a)Price structure.
1.8.2.12The processing function's dynamically generated management and control strategies shall include the capability to respond to the need for control of pollution by generating messages for variable signs that include, but are not limited to, the following:
1.8.2.12(a)Informing of higher tolls.
3.0ELECTRONIC PAYMENT
3.1ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SERVICES
3.1.1Electronic Payment shall provide an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) capability.
3.1.1.1ETC shall provide the capability for vehicle operators to pay tolls without stopping their vehicles.
3.1.1.2ETC shall provide the capability to implement pricing structures for locally determined needs.
3.1.1.4ETC shall include the capability to identify those vehicles and/or operators that violate its toll collection process.
3.1.1.5ETC shall accommodate single billing to commercial carriers.
3.1.1.6ETC shall provide the capability to automatically access and process each commercial vehicle's required documentation.
3.1.4ITS shall include an Electronic Payment Services Integration (EPSI) feature.
3.1.4.2EPSI shall provide the capability to integrate fare and toll pricing structures of multiple agencies.
3.1.4.3EPSI shall collect and provide usage data to develop pricing strategies that favor certain transportation modes or routes.
3.1.4.4EPSI shall be implemented in a manner that ensures that it may be deployed across multiple agency political boundaries without degrading the services it provides.
  
The detailed process and user service requirement traceability information on this page was extracted from the National ITS Architecture. Consult the National ITS Architecture web site for more information.

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