The REETS project has undoubtedly been a success through bringing together a core group of toll chargers and potential EETS providers to resolve some of the commercial and technical questions which were leading to uncertainty. The project reached a broad consensus between toll chargers on how to proceed on the main topics where potential EETS providers needed clarification in order to make service introduction more viable from a commercial perspective.

Chapter Contents:

• 10.1 Introduction – the EETS vision for interoperable Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) services
• 10.2 The need – business and political drivers for interoperability of electronic toll collection systems in Europe
• 10.3 Background – the ETC landscape and the beginnings of ETC interoperability in Europe
• 10.3.1 ETC for motorway tolls in Europe
• 10.3.2 ETC for national heavy vehicle charging
• 10.4 The route to EETS via REETS – the service provider concept and the emergence of regional interoperability services
• 10.4.1 The service provider concept
• 10.4.2 The service provision model in France
• 10.4.3 The service provision model in Ireland
• 10.4.4 ETC interoperability and service provision in Spain and Portugal
• 10.4.5 ETC interoperability and service provision in Italy
• 10.4.6 Interoperability of ETC services in Scandinavia – EasyGo
• 10.4.7 Overall European interoperability architecture
• 10.5 EETS is than interoperability – advantages and disadvantages
• 10.6 Legal background/framework
• 10.7 European co-operation – European Commission projects, standards, activities, committees, etc.
• 10.8 Getting EETS off the ground: the REETS project
• 10.9 REETS project organisation
• 10.9.1 Overall rationale and approach
• 10.9.2 Project scope and objectives
• 10.9.3 Project organisation
• 10.9.4 Analysis phase activities
• 10.9.5 Information platform
• 10.10 Implementation of EETS – compliant services and REETS pilot
• 10.10.1 Conditions for the pilot and roles of the actors
• 10.10.2 Roadmap actions project coordination
• 10.10.3 Coordination with REETS TEN toll chargers
• 10.10.4 Coordination with service providers
• 10.10.5 Transparency of the process between the partners
• 10.10.6 Status at the end of the REETS pilot
• 10.10.7 Continuation under an EETS facilitation platform
• 10.11 EETS facilitation platform
• 10.12 Conclusions
• 10.13 Necessary changes in legislation
• 10.14 Outstanding high-level issues
• 10.14.1 Continuing development of interoperability management
• 10.14.2 Consistency of registration procedures
• 10.14.3 Back office interfaces
• 10.14.4 Notified bodies
• 10.14.5 Toll context data format
• 10.14.6 Cross-border enforcement
• 10.14.7 Conciliation procedures
• 10.15 Other trends – light vehicle charging, smartphone apps, etc.
• 10.15.1 Smartphones
• 10.15.2 RFID and light vehicles
• 10.16 Summary, conclusions and further work
• References
• Further reading

Inspec keywords: road pricing (tolls); road traffic; traffic engineering computing

Other keywords: REETS project; service introduction; commercial perspective; European electronic toll service

Subjects: Traffic engineering computing