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This
market package provides toll operators with the ability to collect tolls
electronically and detect and process violations. The fees that are collected
may be adjusted to implement demand management strategies. Dedicated short
range communication between the roadway equipment and the vehicle is required
as well as wireline interfaces between the toll collection equipment and
transportation authorities and the financial infrastructure that supports
fee collection. Vehicle tags of toll violators are read and electronically
posted to vehicle owners. Standards, inter-agency coordination, and financial
clearinghouse capabilities enable regional, and ultimately national interoperability
for these services. The toll tags and roadside readers that these systems
utilize can also be used to collect road use statistics for highway authorities.
This data can be collected as a natural by-product of the toll collection
process or collected by separate readers that are dedicated to probe data
collection.
