Road pricing systems, their subsystems and components use national and international standards in various areas, like telecommunications, mechanical, payment systems, safety, construction and many others. They all serve specific needs for specific areas. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the framework of standards that have been developed explicitly and primarily for use in road pricing systems. These are standards for the field of Electronic Fee Collection (EFC).

Chapter Contents:

• 9.1 Introduction and scope
• 9.2 History and status of standardisation
• 9.2.1 Why standards in road pricing?
• 9.2.2 Early initiatives in standardisation in road pricing
• 9.2.3 Standardisation organisations currently active in road pricing standards
• 9.2.3.1 CEN TC 278 WG1
• 9.2.3.2 ISO TC 204 WG5
• 9.2.3.3 ETSI TC ITS
• 9.2.3.4 ETSI EMC and Radio Spectrum Matters (ERM) TG37
• 9.3 Paving the path towards interoperability
• 9.3.1 DSRC-based EFC systems
• 9.3.2 Autonomous systems based on CN and GNSS
• 9.4 Existing framework of road pricing standards
• 9.4.1 Overview
• 9.4.2 EFC architecture, role model and interoperable interfaces
• 9.4.2.1 Architecture
• 9.4.2.2 Autonomous OBE (EFC Front-End)
• 9.4.2.3 DSRC-based OBE
• 9.4.2.4 Road side equipment
• 9.4.2.5 Toll Charger back-office
• 9.4.2.6 Toll Service Provider back-office
• 9.4.3 Application interface specification for autonomous systems
• 9.4.4 Interoperability application profile for DSRC-based systems
• 9.4.5 Application interface definition for EFC-DSRC systems
• 9.4.6 Standards for compliance check communication in autonomous EFC systems
• 9.4.7 Standards for secure monitoring in autonomous EFC systems
• 9.4.8 Location augmentation communication in autonomous EFC systems
• 9.4.9 Back-office data exchange between Toll Chargers and Service Providers
• 9.4.10 Interoperable application profile for the back-office data exchange between Toll Chargers and Service Providers
• 9.4.11 EFC security framework
• 9.4.12 Additional EFC standards
• 9.5 Outlook for future work in standards for road pricing
• References

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

Other keywords: national standards; electronic fee collection; road pricing systems; payment systems; international standards; EFC; road pricing standardisation

Subjects: Traffic engineering computing