Toll Administration

This equipment package provides administration and management of an electronic toll collection system. It provides the back office functions that support enrollment, pricing, payment reconciliation with financial institutions, and violation notification to enforcement agencies. It also supports dynamic pricing to support demand management. Secure communications with the financial infrastructure and distributed toll plazas support electronic payments and other ancillary requirements such as lost/stolen tag identification and management.

Subsystem:

• Toll Administration Subsystem

Service Packages:

• Electronic Toll Collection

Functionality:

Functional Requirements:

1. The centre shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
2. The centre shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
3. For electronic toll payments requiring financial payment, the centre shall process the financial information from toll plazas and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
4. The centre shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
5. The centre shall manage the details of toll payment violations based on vehicle information from the toll plaza, registration information from the Department of Motor Vehicles, invalid payment information from a Financial Institution, and previous violation information stored locally, and report such violations to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
6. The centre shall calculate traffic flow based on timestamped toll transactions for vehicle travel between successive toll plazas and send to other agencies.
7. The centre shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Toll Administrator.
8. The centre shall exchange data with other toll agencies to coordinate toll transactions and pricing.
9. The centre shall support requests for advanced toll payment and provide this information to its toll plazas.
10. The centre shall support wide-area alerts from emergency centres by passing on the information to its toll plazas and the Toll Administrator.
11. The centre shall support toll transactions by commercial fleet operators.

PSpecs:

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

Inputs/Outputs (Included Architecture Flows)

Source	Architecture Flow	Destination
Department of Motor Vehicles	registration	Toll Administration
Emergency Management	toll service change request	Toll Administration
Financial Institution	transaction status	Toll Administration
Fleet and Freight Management	toll data request	Toll Administration
Information Service Provider	toll data request	Toll Administration
Other Toll Administration	toll coordination	Toll Administration
Toll Administration	license request	Department of Motor Vehicles
Toll Administration	toll service change response	Emergency Management
Toll Administration	payment violation notification	Enforcement Agency
Toll Administration	payment request	Financial Institution
Toll Administration	toll data	Fleet and Freight Management
Toll Administration	toll data	Information Service Provider
Toll Administration	toll probe data	Information Service Provider
Toll Administration	toll coordination	Other Toll Administration
Toll Administration	toll information presentation	Toll Administrator
Toll Administration	toll instructions	Toll Collection
Toll Administration	toll probe data	Traffic Management
Toll Administration	toll service change response	Traffic Management
Toll Administrator	toll administration requests	Toll Administration
Toll Collection	Toll Transactions	Toll Administration
Traffic Management	toll service change request	Toll Administration

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