ITS Element: Regional Electronic Toll Administration

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Description: Represents the toll collection administrative systems for future electronic toll facilities in the district.
Status: Planned
Stakeholder: Regional Toll Agencies
Mapping: Toll Administration
Other Toll Administration

Interfaces:

DDOT TMC
Financial Institutions
MATOC
MDSHA CHART Centers
MPD Police Dispatch
Regional Electronic Toll E-ZPass CSC
Regional Electronic Toll System
VDOT NRO MPSTOC
Market Packages: ATMS09 - Traffic Decision Support and Demand Management - Metropolitan Region
ATMS10 - Electronic Toll Collection - Regional Electronic Toll Collection
Functional Requirements:

Toll Administration

  • The center shall manage toll transactions, including maintaining a log of all transactions and toll pricing structure information.
  • The center shall dynamically price tolls based on current traffic condition information.
  • For electronic toll payments requiring financial payment, the center shall process the financial information from toll plazas and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
  • The center shall manage a local billing database for toll customers.
  • The center 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.
  • The center shall calculate traffic flow based on timestamped toll transactions for vehicle travel between successive toll plazas and send to other agencies.
  • The center shall respond to changes in toll prices from the Toll Administrator.
  • The center shall exchange data with other toll agencies to coordinate toll transactions and pricing.
  • The center shall support requests for advanced toll payment and provide this information to its toll plazas.
  • The center shall support wide-area alerts from emergency centers by passing on the information to its toll plazas and the Toll Administrator.
  • The center shall support toll transactions by commercial fleet operators.

Last updated: 06-10-11