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Equipment Package: Toll Administration

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 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: E-ZPass Commerce Business Center
E-ZPass CSC
E-ZPass Reciprocity Network
Processes: 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
7.1.8 - Exchange Data with Other Toll Administration
User Service Requirements: 1.8.2 - TDM shall include a processing function.
1.8.2.1 - The 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.
1.8.2.4 - The 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.
1.8.2.10 - The 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.
1.8.2.12 - The 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.
3.0 - ELECTRONIC PAYMENT
3.1 - ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SERVICES
3.1.1 - Electronic Payment shall provide an Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) capability.
3.1.1.1 - ETC shall provide the capability for vehicle operators to pay tolls without stopping their vehicles.
3.1.1.2 - ETC shall provide the capability to implement pricing structures for locally determined needs.
3.1.1.4 - ETC shall include the capability to identify those vehicles and/or operators that violate its toll collection process.
3.1.1.5 - ETC shall accommodate single billing to commercial carriers.
3.1.1.6 - ETC shall provide the capability to automatically access and process each commercial vehicle's required documentation.
3.1.4 - ITS shall include an Electronic Payment Services Integration (EPSI) feature.
3.1.4.2 - EPSI shall provide the capability to integrate fare and toll pricing structures of multiple agencies.
3.1.4.3 - EPSI shall collect and provide usage data to develop pricing strategies that favor certain transportation modes or routes.
3.1.4.4 - EPSI shall be implemented in a manner that ensures that it may be deployed across multiple agency political boundaries without degrading the services it provides.
5.0 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
5.3 - DISASTER RESPONSE AND EVACUATION
5.3.0 - ITS shall provide a Disaster Response and Evacuation (DRE) function that provides for effective, coordinated management of the surface transportation system during all types of disasters including natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, severe winter storms, tsunamis, etc.), terrorist acts, and other catastrophic events (e.g., nuclear power plant disasters). Two primary subservices are provided: (1) Disaster Response and (2) Evacuation Coordination. The Disaster Response Subservice provides support for planning, transportation management, resource sharing, and information coordination between transportation agencies and principal responding agencies (emergency management, public safety, and other allied agencies) to improve the effectiveness and safety of a disaster response. The Disaster Response Subservice consists of eight major functions: 1) Coordinate Response Plans, 2) Monitor Alert Levels, 3) Detect and Verify Emergency, 4) Assess Infrastructure Status, 5) Coordinate Response, 6) Critical Service Restoration, 7) Manage Area Transportation, and 8) Disaster Traveler Information. The Evacuation Coordination (EC) Subservice efficiently manages an evacuation and provides evacuees with the information they need during evacuation and subsequent reentry to the evacuated area. The Evacuation Coordination (EC) subservice includes four additional major functions: 9) Evacuation Planning Support, 10) Evacuation Traveler Information, 11) Evacuation Transportation Management, and 12) Evacuation Resource Sharing.
5.3.5 - Disaster Response shall include a Manage Area Transportation (MAT) function that manages the transportation system in the vicinity of the disaster. Depending on the nature of the disaster and the status of the infrastructure, the following actions may be taken.
5.3.5.3 - Transit and transit fare schedules and toll schedules shall be modified.

Last updated: 02-11-05